Since the Golden State Warriors last lost a home game, we've seen the National Football League crown two Super Bowl champions ... and we've seen Tiger Woods plummet from 47th to 436th in the world golf rankings.
It's been so long, in other words, that the Warriors presumably would have retained the No. 1 spot in ESPN.com's weekly NBA Power Rankings even if they had lost Saturday night in their long-awaited first meeting of the season with the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder. But because the Warriors won, holding off OKC's late rally to stretch their regular-season winning streak at Oracle Arena to 41 games and counting, they'll proceed to All-Star Weekend later this week in Toronto with a comfortable lead at the top.