The magical number of 72. The 1995-96 Chicago Bulls team that became the first team to reach that plateau has set the bar so high that teams since, and in the future, will find it hard to get close to their magical 72-10 season. Miami’s Dwyane Wade, part of a Miami team that analyst Jeff Van Gundy once thought could smash the Bulls mark, says, although it is not impossible, he doesn’t envision the Bulls record being broken by any team.
“Anything is possible,” Wade said. “Would it be very hard? Yes, it would be very hard. The game today, with how many good teams are in this league, that’s almost or as close to impossible as you can get. What the Bulls did that year is special,” Wade said. “Think about that — losing 10 games. They lost something like four at the All-Star break. That’s crazy.”
