April 04--The Golden State Warriors need four wins with five games remaining to replace the 1995-'96 Chicago Bulls as the NBA team with the most wins ever in a single season.
But even if the Warriors reach the 73-win mark, eclipsing Chicago's 72-win season from 20 years ago, does that make them the better team?
One person who played a major role on that Bulls team doesn't think so. When asked by Paul Pabst of "The Dan Patrick Show" on Saturday how a seven-game series between the two teams from different eras would play out, Scottie Pippen thought for a second or two then answered:
"Bulls in four."
So there you have it, a Bulls sweep. Pippen said he would guard Warriors superstar Stephen Curry while Michael Jordan would handle Golden State's Klay Thompson.
"I think that my size and length would bother him a little bit," Pippen said of Curry, who leads the league with 30.1 points a night.
"If I can keep him under 20 I think I'm doing good."
But could you?
"I think I could," Pippen said.
Warriors Coach Steve Kerr was also a member of that Bulls team. He said it's impossible to even comprehend such a matchup, let alone predict a winner.
"If you actually put the teams in a hypothetical game, my guess is the Bulls would be called for a million hand-check fouls, and we would be called for a million illegal defenses when we overloaded the strong side," Kerr said. "So the game would take, like, six hours because the refs would be calling stuff all game. It's kind of hard to get past that."
