Vincent Frank
LeBron James may still have a bitter taste in his mouth nearly a year after losing to the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals.
This hasn’t stopped one of the Association’s greatest players from continually throwing praise the Warriors’ way.
“Records are meant to be broken,” James said Saturday morning, via ESPN. “That doesn’t mean your record that’s broken (and) anyone is looking less of you. You have rushing records that are broken. You have home run records that are broken. You have 100-yard dash (times) that are broken. You have all types of records that are broken, but no one ever looks down upon the record that is broken.”
James is right in that records themselves are meant to be broken. Although, no one could have imagined any team viably taking on the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls record of 72 wins in 82 regular season games.
It’s one of those records you thought would never come close to being broken. It’s akin to Joe DiMaggio’s hit streak in baseball and Wayne Gretzky’s single-season point record in the NHL.
But for a team to represent this overall elite-level of basketball is even more stunning.
“You actually praise it even more,” James continued. “You look back at it like, ‘Wow, they really did that?’ So having Golden State in a position where if they win three in a row they can break that record, I think it’s pretty cool.”
Golden State is taking on the Memphis Grizzlies and San Antonio Spurs this weekend. Wins in those back-to-back games would tie them with the Bulls for the single-season record, a mark that the team could then break Wednesday against Memphis in Oakland.
As it relates to the Cleveland Cavaliers, they are on the verge of wrapping up the top seed back east. In reality, there is a decent chance these two teams could take part in a rematch of last year’s Finals come June.
