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WHAT do the NBA’s reigning champion Golden State Warriors have in common with the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls?

Let’s see now. The triple-champion Bulls set a regular season win-loss record of 72-10 that season.

The defending champion Warriors had a 24-0 start in pursuit of that all-time mark.

Chicago had a unique talent, the greatest player in the game - Michael Jordan.

Golden State has a unique talent, the most amazing player in the game today - Stephen Curry.

The Bulls also boasted a talented Aussie seven-footer as their starting centre, Luc Longley the perfect role-playing compliment to the wealth of talent around him.

The Warriors boast a talented Aussie seven-footer as their starting centre, Andrew Bogut the perfect role-playing compliment to the wealth of talent around him.

Chicago went on to a second run of three successive championships and for Golden State, the sky is the limit.

The Bulls' best stretch was a run of 18 wins in a row, they lost only two home games all season, and at 33 wins, they won more road games than any team in NBA history.

In the playoffs they lost just one game en route to the NBA Finals, sweeping Miami, beating New York in five and sweeping Orlando. In the NBA Finals they raced to a 3-0 lead over the Seattle SuperSonics, dropped a pair of games in Seattle and then used their stifling defence to close out the series with an 87-75 win in Game 6.

This season, the Golden State Warriors started with a 24-0 run (part of a 28-game win streak stretching back to 2014-15) before falling on the road in Milwaukee.

Going into today's US Christmas Day round, they were 27-1.

Last season GSW went 67-15, only five wins shy of the Bulls' record and two short of the LA Lakers' 69-13 second-best mark. (Now also shared with the 1997 Bulls.)

These young Warriors are in a genuine chase for more than 70 wins which would rank them ahead of the Lakers' 1971-72 team.

That line-up enjoyed the league record of 33 straight wins and was anchored in the middle by one of the game’s all-time greats, Wilt Chamberlain (pictured below).

It took 24 years for the Bulls to beat their 69-13 record.

Chamberlain’s running mates on that championship-winning LA team included Jerry West, Gail Goodrich and a 193cm forward off the bench named Pat Riley, who later would make his name as a multi-championship-winning coach and general manager.

When that season tipped off, another Hall of Famer, Elgin Baylor also was on the roster, although he retired in-season.

If the Warriors are to beat the Lakers' 69-13 record and surpass Chicago's 72 wins, it will mean the mark stood for 20 years.

Hell, that's long enough. There was a time we thought the 1992 USA Dream Team - so-called because it was a "dream team" with players such as Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson finally together - would take eons to catch.

But the US hasn't had a "Dream Team" since, just solid NBA combines reeled in within a decade before a further restructuire to keep a small jump on the rest of a gaining world.

As for the NBA, Golden State will take some beating.

It’s one step at a time for the Warriors but 72-10 is assuredly within reach.

"That Bulls team would kill this little team," Dream Teamer Charles Barkley said of the Warriors in an ESPN Radio interview.

"Come on, man. Who is going to guard Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan? What about Dennis Rodman?"

It's a moot point though. Golden State is chasing the record, while 29 other NBA teams wonder how to stall the inevitable.

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