5 Longest NBA winning streaks in history

#2 Golden State Warriors: 28 Wins (2014-15/2015-16)

Steph Curry and the Warriors came close to breaking the NBA's win-streak record

Prior to dominating the 2015 playoffs, the Golden State Warriors picked up four consecutive wins to end the 2014-15 season. The first of these was a 116-105 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on April 9th, and the Warriors wouldn't taste defeat in the regular-season again until December.

After celebrating their first title win for forty years, Steve Kerr's team started their title-defense in excellent form and were largely untested as they racked up 24 straight wins to open the season. They were finally beaten by the Milwaukee Bucks on December 12th, marking Golden State's first regular-season defeat for 249 days.

Fueled by the performances of Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, the Warriors managed twenty-eight straight wins across two seasons, and despite their incredible start to the season, they eventually fell in the 2016 NBA Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

#1 Los Angeles Lakers: 33 Wins (1971-72)

Wilt Chamberlain led the 70-71 Lakers to the best winning streak in NBA history (Picture Credit - Duke Basketball Report)

On Oct. 31st, 1971, the Los Angeles Lakers suffered their third loss of the season as they lost to the Golden State Warriors. The result meant that the Lakers had made a 6-3 start to the season, although a team containing Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain, and Pat Riley quickly set out to put together the most impressive streak in NBA history.

The sequence started with a narrow victory over the Baltimore Bullets on November 5th, and the Lakers wouldn't lose again until January 9th. The longest NBA winning streak is 33 wins by the Los Angeles Lakers from the 1971-72 season.

Lakers streak was finally snapped when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar dropped 39 points and 20 rebounds for the Bucks during a 120-104 win, although the Lakers went on to capture the 1972 title.