With Brandon Rush and his season-ending injury, Barnes was placed in the starting lineup and became crucial in bringing the team back to the playoffs for the first time in six years.
Another injury mid-season from Andrew Bogut also affected the team with the lack of a true center for a majority of the season.
The season was marked by significant highlights, such as Stephen Curry surpassing the existing record for the most three-point field goals made in a single season, where Curry's achievement of 272 three-pointers broke the previous record held by Ray Allen for seven years, which stood at 269.
A seven-game Eastern Conference road trip featured a 6–1 record, including a close win against the defending champion Miami Heat.
Curry scored 44 points in a double-overtime loss in Game 1, but the team pulled off a 100-91 Game 2 win, which was the first Warriors victory, playoff or regular season, in San Antonio since February 1997 and did not occur again until April 10, 2016 (when the same Warriors' team also defeated the same Spurs' team in their only home loss of the 2016 season which tied the 1985–86 Boston Celtics home record for most wins at home during the regular season at 40–1), to tie the series at one game apiece.