by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

USA Today photo: Stephen Curry put on a show on Wednesday night at Oracle Arena against the Memphis Grizzlies

OAKLAND–The Golden State Warriors ended the regular season with 73 wins and 9 losses, that is the best record ever during a regular season for a team in the National Basketball Association., They’re better then the record of the great Chicago Bulls of 1995-96, the Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen teams. Warriors coach Don Nelson could only dream of such a season, anybody in the NBA, not only Nelson, can only dream of having a team loosing nine games on an 82 game season.

As a person who covered and traveled with the Golden State Warriors in the 1990’s I can only admired this 2016-17 team in awe of such an accomplishment. Let us not forget that it comes on the season following their defending of their reigning title of 2014-15. Few teams in history, in any sport, have defended a title with such numbers. Now the Warriors had some great players in their history from Wilt Chamberlain, to Rick Barry and Nate”The Great”:Thurmond, but what Stephen Curry has done with this team and a cast of others, who actually check their egos at the gate, it is amazing.

Forget the NBA, this is a season almost impossible to compare to any team in any other professional league in this country. Defending a title, I think the Warriors had the best season of a-n-y-b-o-d-y. And actually the fans they have recruited during these past seasons is unprecedented here in the Bay Area. Truth-be-said, the Warriors always enjoyed great fan support in the Bay Area, as many years as they never won anything, no other pro-sports team here in Northern California can compare to the support the Warriors have enjoyed.

If they played at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, next to the Oracle Arena, they could have filled the Coliseum, even the seats on the upper-deck that are permanently closed, would be open and selling like hot cakes.

I am very happy for the Warriors success, they make the Bay Area proud,and even though they might move to San Francisco in the future, they are a Bay Area team, congratulations to Mr.Peter Guber and Mr Joe Lacob for buying a team in distress a few years back and putting together one of the jewels of sports.