Golden State Warriors

More likely: Kobe making a shot or the Warriors winning 73 games?

Published Feb. 19, 2016 2:04 p.m. ET

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Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors are better at being great than Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers are at being terrible.

What does that mean? Here:

Warriors have better chance to win 73 games than Kobe does making FG or Drummond making FT, according to ESPN's BPI. pic.twitter.com/qwxzKU47B8
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) February 19, 2016

Andre Drummond is sort of on his own planet of unbelievable every time he steps to the free-throw line, so for the time being we'll leave that alone. But look at the Warriors! No team in NBA history has ever won 73 games, and one predictive algorithm thinks they have a 37 percent chance of doing it this season.

Being that we've already passed the All-Star break, that's incredible.

Steph Curry Is Officially The Most Popular Athlete On YouTube https://t.co/LM8zFwwYlf pic.twitter.com/8BlMrgB41G
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) February 19, 2016

On the other side of the spectrum sits Bryant, who inexplicably leads the Lakers in shots and scoring.

The 37-year-old's final season rests on a balancing beam. On one side is love and appreciation; the fact that this was a great player who deserves celebration. On the other lies all the horrible basketball he's responsible for right now. Kobe can't get to the basket anymore, and defenders know it. They force jumper after jumper, and Bryant obliges with miss after miss.

And yet, his struggle and Golden State's success form a beautiful dichotomy as two of the NBA's most captivating story lines.

Neither lets you look away.