2015–16 Golden State Warriors season
Game Date Team Score High points High rebounds High assists Location Attendance Series
1 April 16 Houston W 104-78 Stephen Curry ( 24 ) Draymond Green ( 10 ) Andre Iguodala ( 7 ) Oracle Arena 19,596 1-0
2 April 18 Houston W 115-106 Klay Thompson ( 34 ) Draymond Green ( 14 ) Draymond Green ( 8 ) Oracle Arena 19,596 2-0
3 April 21 @ Houston L 96-97 Marreese Speights ( 22 ) Klay Thompson ( 8 ) Draymond Green ( 7 ) Toyota Center 18,200 2-1
4 April 24 @ Houston W 121-94 Klay Thompson ( 23 ) Draymond Green ( 8 ) Shaun Livingston ( 9 ) Toyota Center 18,200 3-1
5 April 27 Houston W 114-81 Klay Thompson ( 27 ) Draymond Green ( 9 ) Draymond Green ( 8 ) Oracle Arena 19,596 4-1
The 2015-16 Golden State Warriors season was the 70th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and its 54th in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Warriors entered the season as the defending NBA champions and they set the best ever regular-season record of, breaking the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls record of . Golden State broke over twenty-five NBA records and more than ten franchise records that season, including most wins ever recorded in a season (regular-season and postseason combined); with 88. This team's regular season is considered to be one of the greatest in NBA and professional sports history. However, they would go on to lose the NBA Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers, 4 games to 3. The Warriors began the 2015-16 season by winning their first 24 games, eclipsing the previous best start in NBA history, set by the 1993-94 Houston Rockets and the 1948-49 Washington Capitols at . Their record-setting start ended when they were defeated by the Milwaukee Bucks on December 12, 2015. The Warriors broke a 131-year-old record of set by the 1884 St. Louis Maroons baseball team, to claim the best start to a season in all of the major professional sports in America. They also won 28 consecutive regular-season games dating back to the 2014-15 season, eclipsing the 2012-13 Miami Heat for the second longest winning streak in NBA history. The team set an NBA record 54-straight regular-season home-game winning streak, which spanned from January 31, 2015 to March 29, 2016. The previous record of 44 was held by the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls. Golden State broke their franchise record of 28 road wins in a season which they set in 2014-15; they ended the season with 34, passing the same mid-1990s Chicago Bulls team led by Michael Jordan for the most road wins in NBA history.