Even though the Warriors are 44-4 right now and poised to make a real run at the record the 1995-96 Bulls set when they finished the regular season 72-10, Golden State has taken a ho-hum approach to it. Steph Curry did a media run earlier this week and was asked over and over and over again about the idea of the Warriors finishing 73-9 or better, but he repeatedly stopped short of saying that the team is actively seeking the record.
“If we have an opportunity to go for it, we’ll go for it,” he told Fox Sports.
Most of Curry’s teammates have taken the same approach. But during a recent visit to the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory in San Francisco, Calif., Warriors president Rick Welts and Klay Thompson may have revealed that the idea of the team going 73-9 is actually more important than Curry’s comments would suggest. Welts spoke with CBS Sports Radio after the visit and talked about how he and Thompson slipped a piece of paper into a fortune cookie that they made that said “73-9” on it.
“I actually wrote out one and handed it to him,” Welts said, according to the Bay Area News Group, “and he put it in a fortune cookie, and it did say ’73-9.’ I think the record of 72 wins is the unspoken thing out there.”
Unspoken? Eh, not really. Everyone is talking about the possibility of the Warriors finishing 73-9 right now. But this fortune cookie story is guaranteed to make them talk about it even more.
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[via SLAM]
