In a season filled with records, feats and accomplishments, the Golden State Warriors are just one win away from the biggest one of all — the best season in NBA history.

At 72-9, the Warriors head into the final game of the regular season tied with the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls for the most wins ever. One more victory and the team would set a new standard in NBA lore: 73 wins.

A lot has been written about Golden State’s historically dominant season. But capturing the magnitude of this team’s excellence is close to impossible. They’ve evoked philosophical musings on “joy," drawn comparisons to ballerinas and plastered seemingly permanent smiles on the faces of a rabid and growing fan base. I’ve heard this team described as “inspirational” on several occasions.

Awesome. Incredible. Prodigious. Shocking. Unbelievable. Yeah, those all work.

But, words don’t really do this team justice. And frankly, stats and records don’t either.

The team’s long list of accomplishments this year reads like a resume for the title of “Best Team Ever." But using that list to explain how good the ’15-16 Warriors are is really just a crutch propping up inadequate powers of description. Records can be a meager way to give historical context. Most records, anyway.

Seventy-three wins is different.

It is a  record that would cement this 82-game season, and this group of players, into basketball history, forever. It would complete their application for Best Team Ever and firmly place them at the beginning of any such discussion.

A few weeks ago, after resisting talk of The Record for months, Warriors players started admitting that they were gunning for 73.

“I’m not going to shy away from saying we want the record. We want the record, and we’re going after it,” Draymond Green said.

After Sunday night’s record-tying win against the San Antonio Spurs, Green, who has become the most outspoken about passing the Bulls (and everything else), was asked if he wanted the record more than anyone else.

“Absolutely, 100 percent,” he said. “When people ask me, ‘When you’re done, when you’re gone, what do you want people to remember?’ I want people to remember me as a winner. To have the all-time wins record, that speaks for itself.”

When asked if he wanted the wins record, Stephen Curry said, “There's a reason you're still talking about that 1995-96 Bulls team. So yes.”

Players know the weight of this record and the legacy that comes with it. They've raised the bar higher than it’s ever been. In order to clear it, this is the record they need.

Wednesday night, when the Warriors take on the Memphis Grizzlies at Oracle Arena, to borrow a line from an old Bulls beat reporter, this Warriors team is playing for forever, not just today.

(That same reporter wrote a column last month in the Chicago Tribune proclaiming the 3-pointer a prop, a dull stunt that Steph Curry is using to ruin the game of basketball. Another old man waxing about the days of yore.)

After Sunday night’s record-tying win against the San Antonio Spurs, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr explained that he cared more about the record when he was a player on that historic Bulls team.

“The players talk about it. They think about it,” Kerr said. “It’s really a player’s honor, a player’s record.”

And Kerr certainly knows more than anyone. The fact that he was a part of the Bulls team that his Warriors are now chasing would be unbelievable if it were scripted.

Hypothetical debates comparing these teams are unavoidable, but again, it misses the point.

Bay Area News Group columnist Marcus Thompson described the Warriors’ brilliance well:

"... the Warriors have another level. That’s the statement that encapsulates this historic season. While many thought they were a championship fluke, or an emerging team that got all the breaks, the Warriors have been bent on showing they have another gear…

The Warriors bring their A game in the big games…

When it’s a game the Warriors are motivated for, and they are healthy, they just don’t lose. If it’s a game they have circled on the schedule, and they want to send a statement, they shift to another gear."

And the good news for the Warriors, Thompson added, is that all of the games left for the Warriors are big games. Perhaps the biggest is Wednesday night in Oakland.

But was Scottie Pippen right? Would the season “not mean a thing without the ring”?

For now, any discussions about the playoffs, the quest for 16 more wins and potential back-to-back titles are for another time.

Today, it’s all about 73.

Wednesday's game starts at 7:30 p.m. and can be seen on ESPN and CSN Bay Area, and heard on the radio at KNBR 1050 and KGO 810.