Michael Jordan told the Warriors' owner their 73-win season was meaningless

Published Feb. 8, 2017 3:00 p.m. ET

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Andrew Lynch

Even though the Golden State Warriors blew a 3-1 lead in the 2016 NBA Finals, their 2015-16 regular season was still pretty awesome — unless you ask His Airness.

As you'll recall, Stephen Curry & Co. set an NBA record by winning 73 games last year, besting Michael Jordan's 1995-96 Chicago Bulls' mark of 72-10. Yet when the Charlotte Hornets owner recently sat down for dinner with Warriors owner Joe Lacob, Jordan made sure Golden State knew how meaningless its little regular-season achievement really was.

 

Via 95.7 FM The Game:

LACOB: You know, the moment that kind of hurt me the most this year a little bit, was with the Collective Bargaining Agreement, I was on the labor committee. I was in New York having a bunch of dinners with Michael Jordan and other owners, there was six of us. Actually Dan [Gilbert] was one of them as well.

And you know, people were drinking and having a good time and all that. But there was a moment where he said, “You know, 73 don’t mean ... ” [without the ring]. He did it. Michael Jordan did that. And I looked at him and I just decided not to make a big deal of it. I said, “You know you’re right, we didn’t win it, we had to get better.”

He was fantastic, and I’m not gonna cross him, but that kinda hurt, you know?

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