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IT WAS all about the Warriors in the NBA again in the past week as the defending champs went about rewriting the history books.

Opening the season with 15 straight wins tied the best start to a season by a defending champion, and it has the chance to hold the record outright when taking on the lowly Los Angeles Lakers (2-11) at home tomorrow.

While Steph Curry (32.7ppg) has been the standout for Golden State, team ball has been getting it done – evidenced by power forward Draymond Green leading the team in both rebounds (7.9) and assists (6.7).

Andre Iguodala, who was a catalyst in the Warriors championship run, has again been solid while centre Festus Ezeli has surprised early on, starting 10 games and being a presence down low as Aussie Andrew Bogut recovered from a broken nose.

And it’s not like Golden State played bums last week either – home wins against solid Eastern Conference rivals Toronto (9-6) and Chicago (8-4) bookended a win over the Clippers (6-7) at Staples Centre.

AT the other end of the spectrum, the internet buzz has been a question on which will happen first – a Warriors loss or a Philadelphia win.

The hapless 76ers, coached by former Boomers mentor Brett Brown, dropped their 15th straight game to open the season with today’s loss to the Timberwolves at Minnesota.

LOWS: 76ers coach Brett Brown, reflecting on the sidelines how Philly fans are feeling.

Philly does have a couple of nice pieces in rookie Jahlil Okafor (17.9ppg, 7.7rbg) and power forward Nerlens Noel (11ppg, 8.8rpg) – so look for them to be traded away for future draft picks in the not-too-distant future, as has been the 76ers head-scratching front-office philosophy over the past few years.

At some stage the franchise will have to realise lottery picks don’t win you games unless you actually hold on to the players you select for a while, and add in some decent talent around them.

WHO could forget the draft-night boos from Knicks fans when 7’3 Latvian Kristaps Porzingis’ name was called at pick 4?

Safe to say those same fans are now on the Porzingis bandwagon – the big-man’s play winning over the Madison Square Garden faithful like few Knicks rookies have in recent times. (Keeping in mind this is the same franchise who gave us Linsanity…)

The Porzingis hype is real. He became the first Knick since Patrick Ewing to record 40 points and 30 rebounds in his first four games; the first since Ewing to have at least three double-doubles in his first seven matches, and he and Ewing are  the only Knicks’ rookies since 1973-74 to have 80 points, 60 rebounds and nine blocks in the first seven games.

Get the feeling that Ewing guy could play a bit?

Oh, and the Knicks are also 8-7 and second in the Atlantic division standings which is a considerable improvement on the 17-65 record from 2014-15.

Suddenly the Knicks are not easybeats any more ... but there’s still time.

GAMES to watch this week: The Warriors try for the win-streak record tomorrow v LA Lakers; two surprising Western Conference early-season strugglers New Orleans and  LA Clippers meet on Saturday and, in the East, Washington hosts the Raptors who will be without key big-man Jonas Valanciunas (hand) for at least six weeks in a blow for Toronto.

SIMON Cameron has been a basketball junkie for more than 20 years, a former News Ltd NBL writer in Cairns, he still works in Sport for News Corp. His dream is to one day do an American holiday taking in as many games in as many cities as possible and believes Jordan is better than LeBron.