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[Randolph Freelander]

73-9 isn't undefeated. 16-0 was.

However, Golden State now has the ignominious mark of being the first NBA team to give up a 3-1 lead in the Finals, and the first team since 1978 to lose game 7 at home.

That's going to hurt for a while.

 

[rekameohs]

Yankees '04 was worse, even if it wasn't for the championship. But for this, I'll say GS is worse since blowing a series as seemingly wrapped up as the Finals this year was more of a choke job than the Pats.

 

[Raziel]

73-9

They were the first team in NBA history to lose a 3-1 lead. To be the equivalent or worse, the Patriots would have had to set the record for the largest blown lead in a Super Bowl game.

 

[PrankT]

73-9 by far.

Warriors were up 3-1 and then lost the game 7 at home.

Football is any given Sunday. But to lose 3 straight? That's awful.

This.

 

[PeregrinSe7en]

18 and 1, easily.

Yes, the Warriors were up 3-1 and lost game 7 at home, but as least they were playing the second best team in the league. The Patriots got beat by the fucking 10-6 Giants.

correct

the g men almost didnt make the playoffs

cavs run through the eastern conference like no big dea

i blame kerr/curry

kerry for playing ezeli too much and curry for boneheaded pass attempts that lead to missed opportunities.

 

[The Faceless Master]

18-1

 

[Chezzymann]

18 and 1, easily.

Yes, the Warriors were up 3-1 and lost game 7 at home, but as least they were playing the second best team in the league. The Patriots got beat by the fucking 10-6 Giants.

Cavs are great but I wouldn't say theyre the second best team. Spurs are to me.

 

[Chase17]

Shouldn't it be 18-1 or 88-18?

Anyways, just looking at the line it's easier to say that 18-1 worse since it broke up a perfect season but really it has to be GS.

It's far easier to blow 1 game in the NFL than a 7 game series in the NBA.

 

[Friggz]

18-1

Pats choke job will never be outdone. Losing to Eli Manning and scoring 14 points

yes...becuase losing to a future hall of fame quarterback is a terrible thing

Either way - 73-9.

Goldenstate was up 3-1 with 2 left to play at home and couldnt make it happen.

 

[LosDaddie]

Anyone else listen to Sway in the Morning?

It's going to be great tomorrow...if Sway makes it in.

 

[PeregrinSe7en]

Cavs are great but I wouldn't say theyre the second best team. Spurs are to me.

if the spurs were the second best they would have gotten past okc

 

[the_batman]

if the spurs were the second best they would have gotten past okc

Pop let OKC win because he knew OKC would lose to GSW, and that GSW would lose to the Cavs. he wanted LeBron to win on for da land.

 

[DizzyCaffeine]

Anyone that says 18-1 is straight-up crazy.

A single football game can go sideways in an instant.

Losing 3 games in a row is beyond bad luck - it's an unprecedented collapse that exposed a weak team.

 

[VeryGooster]

The salt from the Tyree play is still delicious years later.

But I'd probably give it to GSW. Other than the crazy Splash Bros stuff they didn't play particularly great even against OKC but still had several chances after being up three games in those finals.

 

[Dr.Acula]

I think that 18-1 will have more lasting cultural impact, just because every time a team starts 10-0 or 12-0 in the NFL (which happens every now and then) they start talking about the Dolphins and the Pats. That's always going to happen, the Pats are always going to be brought up when some NFL team starts on a streak.

What NBA team is going to threaten to go 73-9? It's so rare. People are going to bring it up, but it's not going to be brought up every couple of years like it comes up in the NFL.

 

[cdyhybrid]

18-1 by far. Best regular season record is nothing compared to being undefeated.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

73-9, especially since Stern called it in. How you gonna punch 3 people in the nuts, only get one suspension and not win the chip. People will try and cover that up but that was done bull shit.

 

[gosox333]

It's a lot more one sided than people realize.

by all means 73-9 is the bigger choke. the best record of all time not only losing 3 in a row, but multiple on the road against a comeback attack in the finals of a magnitude of deficit that had never been accomplished before? that's just unreal.

but people see that 18-1 for the 1. The Pats won all of the games up until the last one, and were poised to be perfect. This team lost 9 and the other lost 1, surely the team losing only the 1 is the bigger upset, right? Not accounting for matches played in a one game playoff format, a format that statistically allows for more error than...well any format than one with more than one game.

The numbers paint an incredibly bigger picture than what actually happened.

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

Neither.

The 2010 Boston Bruins (39-30-13).

They had a 3-0 lead against the Flyers, and proceeded to lose 3 in a row, leading to a game 7. In that game 7 they took a 3-0 lead before blowing that, and losing 4-3.

They blew a 3-0 series lead and a 3 goal lead in game 7 on home ice. There's been 3 goal leads blown in game 7s, there's been 3-0 series leads get choked away, but never both.

You simply can't get as bad as the 2010 Boston Bruins.

 

[manfestival]

isnt 73-9 the wrong math?

18-1 is worse simply because it is a perfect record tarnished

 

[Dr.Acula]

Neither.

The 2010 Boston Bruins (39-30-13).

They had a 3-0 lead against the Flyers, and proceeded to lose 3 in a row, leading to a game 7. In that game 7 they took a 3-0 lead before blowing that, and losing 4-3.

They blew a 3-0 series lead and a 3 goal lead in game 7 on home ice. There's been 3 goal leads blown in game 7s, there's been 3-0 series leads get choked away, but never both.

You simply can't get as bad as the 2010 Boston Bruins.

By that logic, you'd have to go that NYY team that lost to the Red Sox. No team in baseball has ever blown a 3-0 lead, and the Yanks were the American League champs during the regular season. 2010 Boston Bruins were a 6 seed.

 

[fr0st]

No team has won coming back from 3-1 down in the NBA finals... Also they had home court advantage twice and was arguably the best team this season. That was Golden states series to win yet they chocked.

 

[jroc74]

73-9, easily. As many have said they were up 3-1. And didn't win another game. Had the lead late in this...at home....and lost.

Add to that they were down 3-1 to OKC, won that series then proceed to be part of history by losing in the Finals after being up 3-1.

73-9, easily.

 

[brokenbeans]

Sorry to say it but 3-1

 

[jroc74]

By that logic, you'd have to go that NYY team that lost to the Red Sox. No team in baseball has ever blown a 3-0 lead, and the Yanks were the American League champs during the regular season. 2010 Boston Bruins were a 6 seed.

I was gonna mention this series too. I hate the Yankees, you would have thought I was a Red Sox fan that series.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

I'd take 18-1, to be honest.

in Football, "any given Sunday", you know? Could that Giants team have beaten those Patriots 4 times out of 7? Dunno about that. That's how football goes. But basketball? You either are better or you aren't, and you have 2 weeks worth of games to prove it. The Cavs proved they were the better team, the end. The Giants proved they were the better team on one day.

 

[Kurt Angle]

Giants are absolute garbage who can't even make the playoffs and will probably never win another ring in the next 50 years

so 18-1 definitely

 

[MIMIC]

What about 2015 Kentucky (NCAA)?

Not saying any of these are "chokes" though. Just throwing them in the mix. They were unbeaten, just like the Patriots (38-1)

EDIT: They didn't get to the final round, though.

 

[RespectThySole]

73-9 by far. They had home court, up 3-1 and then proceeded to lose 3 games in a row. Unfathomable.

1 game takes all in football are completely different.

 

[PeregrinSe7en]

Giants are absolute garbage who can't even make the playoffs and will probably never win another ring in the next 50 years

so 18-1 definitely

they did beat the pats twice

and both times the pats were heavy favorites

 

[Chezzymann]

if the spurs were the second best they would have gotten past okc

OKC was playing out of their minds then. I'd say they could beat anyone in the league at that level. But they couldn't sustain it. I tend to look at the regular season when deciding who's the best teams though because while the playoffs are more important 82 games is a lot longer than 7.

 

[Ghost is Bad]

warriors easily outchoked the pats lol.

they lost 3 straight match point games while pats literally lost to an act of god.

 

[cdyhybrid]

warriors easily outchoked the pats lol.

they lost 3 straight match point games while pats literally lost to an act of god.

"act of god"

:lol no. Tyree catch was amazing, yes, but the Giants dominated that game. Brady couldn't do anything against that D-line after he laughed at the notion that the Pats would only score 17 points.

 

[aussiedude08]

Pats is the bigger choke. The Warriors should of lost in the western conference finals.

And the Giants were a wildcard team in 2007. Had to do it all on the road.

 

[Epsilon-delta]

73-9 isn't undefeated. 16-0 was.

However, Golden State now has the ignominious mark of being the first NBA team to give up a 3-1 lead in the Finals, and the first team since 1978 to lost game 7 at home.

That's going to hurt for a while.

This right here.

 

[BobLoblaw]

Nice try Pats haters, but 73-9 and up 3-1 and losing 3 straight (twice at home) is now the biggest choke job. Any NFL team can lose 1 game.

 

[cdyhybrid]

Nice try Pats haters, but 73-9 and up 3-1 and losing 3 straight (twice at home) is now the biggest choke job. Any NFL team can lose 1 game.

"Any Given Sunday!" does not excuse the choke. If it were an absolute truth they wouldn't have been undefeated going into the game.

It was one game for immortality, and they got crushed.

Greatest choke of all time.

 

[tookhster]

Can't see anyone legitimately thinking that 18-1 is worse than being up 3 games to 1 in a Finals series and losing 3 in a row immediately after when you had homecourt advantage. Unless you don't watch basketball.

The Super Bowl is one game and miracles happen every now and then, but in the NBA you have a bunch of chances to recover after you lose in a series.

Also, Golden State had just come back from being down 3-1 to OKC the series before and had the same thing happen to them.

AND they were the first team in NBA finals history to blow a 3-1 lead. C'mon.

 

[BobLoblaw]

"Any Given Sunday!" does not excuse the choke. If it were an absolute truth they wouldn't have been undefeated going into the game.

It was one game for immortality, and they got crushed.

Greatest choke of all time.

17-14 = crushed? Let the hate go. The Dubs got the crown now.

 

[Blablurn]

73-9 all the way

ALL THE WAY

it's incredible how the Warriors just bombed. incredible.

 

[jambo]

Bit of a random answer, but in the Australia Football League, my team Port Adelaide went through a really bad patch where we had amazing seasons and then choked in the finals.

2001: 16-6 (0-2 in the finals and knocked out)
2002: 18-4 (1-2 in the finals and knocked out)
2003: 18-4 (1-2 in the finals and knocked out)
2004: 17-5 (3-0 in the finals and champions at last)

Meanwhile the Brisbane Lions won the 2001-03 finals back-to-back-to-back.

 

[Megadragon15]

The Warriors are going to be haunted by this loss for decades and Curry, especially, will be tarnished in any discussion of greatest basketball player ever. The Warriors choke job is easily the worst between them and the Patriots. Not even close.

 

[El_Chino]

The Warriors are going to be haunted by this loss for decades and Curry, especially, will be tarnished in any discussion of greatest basketball player ever. The Warriors choke job is easily the worst between them and the Patriots. Not even close.

I wonder how OKC feels about this loss, considering they were up 3-1 in the series and suffered the same fate.

 

[Vault Dweller 111]

2004 Yankees are the worst chokers of all time.

 

[Plasmid]

73-9. Could have made history but they got cocky with 3 wins and lost to make the record for biggest comeback loss.

18-1 is great because fuck the patriots

 

[AyaisMUsikWhore]

73-9.

Home court advantage is a huge deal in basketball that cannot be compared to the Superbowl that's in random neutral locations.

 

[ryutaro's mama]

"act of god"

:lol no. Tyree catch was amazing, yes, but the Giants dominated that game. Brady couldn't do anything against that D-line after he laughed at the notion that the Pats would only score 17 points.

"Hahahaha...is Plax playing defense?"

 

[IISANDERII]

 

[SliceSabre]

18-1

Because the Pats will never live it down and got beat by the team people had near zero expectations of.

Plus I don't like the Pats/Tom Brady.

 

[teruterubozu]

They're both equally pathetic choke jobs respective to their sport. You couldn't choke more than 18-1 in the NFL and you couldn't choke more than GSW did last night in the NBA.