We remember how this goes: Your team is so good, so much better than everyone else, that the idea of them losing is hard to imagine. Or remember.

In 1971-72, it was the Los Angeles Lakers, who won a record 33 consecutive games, over a span of 64 days.

This season, it is the Golden State Warriors, who are 24-0, over a span of 45 days.

This is of general interest because the Warriors look like they could break the Lakers’ 44-year-old NBA record, and it is of personal interest because I was a huge Lakers fan, back then, and feel a sense of ownership of those memories.

The streaks are interesting enough that I did some research into how good they were during their streaks.

–The Lakers were slightly more dominant, in terms of margin of victory. They won by an average of 17.9 points per game (123.8-105.9) during their streak; the Warriors’ 24-game streak has them winning by an average of 14.1 points per game (116.1-102).

–The Lakers defeated all but one of the other 16 teams in the league during their streak (they did not play the Cincinnati Royals). The Warriors have beaten 17 of the 29 other NBA teams, but will see four more during their streak, if they break the Lakers’ record.

–The Lakers’ streak ended against the Milwaukee Bucks, on the road, 120-104. A young center named Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scored 38 for the Bucks, who had a very nice starting five; Kareem was joined by Oscar Robertson, Lucius Allen, Bob Dandridge and John Block.

–If the Warriors get a chance to tie the Lakers’ record, it will come at home to the Denver Nuggets. If they break the record, it will be at home against the Charlotte Hornets.

–Aside from dominating the opposition, the Lakers of 44 years ago were quite different to the current Warriors. For starters, the three-point shot did not exist in 1971-72; the Warriors live on the three; also, those Lakers were significantly older than these Warriors. Also, the game was more physical, back then, and scores were higher (and defenses were poorer).

–The Lakers had two superstars, in Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain, and Gail Goodrich was nearly a third superstar, that season. But they were really a five-man team, with forwards Happy Hairston and Jim McMillian completing the quintet. All of them played at least 2,700 minutes; their leadings subs, Jim Ellis and Flynn Robinson, played barely more than 1,000 minutes.

–The Warriors have the one superstar, Stephen Curry, and two guys who can come up big but don’t do so all the time, in Klay Thompson and Draymond Green. Curry and Green play heavy minutes, but after that the Warriors have about seven guys filling the other three slots. Their talent runs significantly deeper than that of the Lakers.

–It seems as if it is easier for teams to real off a bunch of wins in the modern era than it was in the past. Three of the four longest streaks in NBA history have happened in the past eight seasons — the Miami Heat’s 27 in 2012-13 (which gave me a scare), the Warriors’ 24 right now and the Houston Rockets’ 22 in 2007-08.

–The Warriors have known all along what they need to do to set an NBA record for winning streak. They are at 28 right now, counting their final four regular-season games from last year, and can break the “two-season” streak record on December 28 at Sacramento … and the single-season streak record on January 4 against Charlotte. The Lakers, meanwhile, broke the NBA streak record when they got to 21. The next 12 were just burnishing their own streak. The Warriors may find it easier to go after something tangible.

–The Lakers stumbled against the second-best team in the league. The Warriors do not play the second-best team, in the here and now, San Antonio, until Game 45.

–The Warriors do, however, have a couple of semi-formidable teams to get past to break some records. The two-season record requires a Christmas Day victory at home against the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James (to tie the record) than a victory against DeMarcus Cousins’s Kings three days later to set the record. The single-season record requires winning six games in 11 days — against Cleveland (December 25), Sacramento (December 28), at Dallas (December 30), at Houston (December 31), Denver (January 2) and Charlotte (January 4).

For those who believe in the infallibility of these Warriors, they may look at last night’s double-overtime victory at Boston as the toughest moment of what may turn into a record streak. As Curry put it, “I’m pretty a lot of people thought we were going to lose this game.”

I wish “a lot of people” had been right, because I don’t to see the achievements of that marvelous Lakers team diminished.

Just as I didn’t want to see Adrian Peterson break Eric Dickerson’s single-season rushing record, I don’t want the Warriors knocking the Lakers out of the No. 1 position.