Twistity Sports Exclusive: GOLDEN (STATE) YEARS

 
Let’s hear it for David Bowie’s favorite basketball team – the Warriors. Come on, sing along: “Golden State, wuh-wuh-wuh, Goooolden, wuh-wuh-wuh.”

OK, enough of the silliness (unless you are enjoying it, in which case you should sing, sing, sing). We wouldn’t want to take away from what the Golden State Warriors are doing this season, but why not honor them with music?

The Warriors own the NBA’s best record at 21-2. They’ve won 16 games in a row, and that streak is on the line Tuesday night against the very good Memphis Grizzlies (19-4). The game is in Memphis, where the Griz are 11-1. The cool thing about GSW: They’re 13-1 on the road, including 10 consecutive wins, and 8-1 at home.

The Warriors’ start is the best in franchise history and third best through 23 games in NBA history. First-year coach Steve Kerr has already had to downplay expectations that this team could threaten the Chicago Bulls’ single-season record of 72 victories (against 10 defeats). Kerr played on that Bulls team (1996) and didn’t want to compare it with the Warriors, simply saying: “We had this guy named Michael Jordan on that team.”

See, some people don’t have to talk much to say a lot.

Powering the Warriors is the guard tandem of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, but what makes this Warriors team so good is that it has been able to do without David Lee (hamstring) and Andrew Bogut (knee) and will not have either available in Memphis. How outstanding are Curry and Thompson? They combined for 63 points in Sunday night’s 128-122 overtime win against the New Orleans Pelicans (on the road).

Post By: Larry Weisman, a longtime sportswriter for USA TODAY, blogs for Twistity.com. Follow him on Twitter @MrLarryWeisman .