In this season, before the downfall in Milwaukee, the Golden State players started with a 24 – 0 run. As they make a run at a 70-win season, see how they compare record-wise to Chicago at each point in each team’s respective season.
The Chicago Bulls achieved the impossible thing which no team had done before – defeating other players in 70 games and finishing the season with 72 – 10 the historical record.
Successful in 18 games in a row in one stretch, the Bulls drew the league in scoring 105.2 ppg, the third in defense at 92.9 ppg for a spectacular +12.2 point differential. Only two home battles were what they lost, and they won more on the road with 33 games compared to any other teams in NBA
The Bulls lost one game in the playoff to NBA Finals. In the NBA Finals, they raced to a 3 – 0 lead over the Seattle SuperSonices, dropped a pair of games in Seattle and then used their stifling defense to finish the series with an 87 – 75 win in Game 6.