The 2015 NBA Champion Golden State Warriors established an NBA record with their 45th consecutive regular-season home victory with tonight’s 119-113 win vs. the Orlando Magic at Oracle Arena, surpassing the mark of 44-straight regular-season home wins set by the Chicago Bulls from March 30, 1995 to April 4, 1996. Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr was also a member of the Bulls team that held the previous NBA record.
The Warriors, who last lost at home in the regular season on Jan. 27, 2015, in overtime to Chicago (111-113), have outscored their opponents by an average of 14.0 points at home since the streak began on Jan. 31, 2015 vs. Phoenix. The club closed out the 2014-15 season with 18-straight regular-season wins at home and has won 27-straight games at Oracle Arena to begin the 2015-16 campaign, a franchise-best start at home. Coupled with the Warriors’ previous franchise-best mark of 19-straight regular-season home wins set last season from Nov. 13, 2014 to Jan. 25, 2015, Golden State has won 64 of its last 65 regular-season home contests.
Golden State’s NBA-record regular-season home winning streak features three contests decided in overtime (Nov. 14, 2015 vs. Brooklyn; Jan. 2, 2016 vs. Denver; March 1, 2016 vs. Atlanta), three wire-to-wire wins and eight double-digit comebacks, including a 22-point come-from-behind win on Feb. 4, 2015 vs. Dallas, the team’s largest comeback of the streak. The Warriors’ largest victory during the streak was a 50-point win on Nov. 2, 2015, over Memphis (119-69), and the team’s narrowest margin of victory came on April 2, 2015 vs. Phoenix (107-106), a one-point win sealed with a game-winning shot by Harrison Barnes with 0.4 seconds remaining.
With tonight’s win, the Warriors own a 56-6 (.903) mark during the 2015-16 campaign, the best record in NBA history through the season’s first 62 games. The Warriors’ NBA-record home winning streak comprises 45 of the team’s 161 consecutive home sellouts, which began on Dec. 18, 2012, and is the seventh-longest active sellout streak in the NBA.