One thing that might help Gortat and the Wizards achieve John Wall’s stated goal of advancing past the semifinal round of the playoffs would be securing one of the Eastern Conference’s top two seeds. So far, so good. After Monday’s action, the Wizards are the only remaining unbeaten team in the Eastern Conference, something the franchise hasn’t been able to say since Halloween 1974. When it’s been that long, it’s okay to brag a little on Twitter one week into the season.

The last time the Bullets were the Eastern Conference’s lone unbeaten team, they shared a division with the Houston Rockets and New Orleans Jazz. The Philadelphia 76ers were the only Eastern Conference team to start at least 2-0 that season. Washington improved to 7-0 with a 94-86 win over the Knicks at the Capital Centre on Oct. 30, 1974, behind 21 points and 18 rebounds from Elvin Hayes.

“Hey, I expected to lose tonight,” Bullets Coach K.C. Jones said after the game. “You get up at 5 in the morning, have a plane ride, get up at 5 in the morning, have a plane ride…”

The Bullets had defeated the Bulls in Chicago the night before and the win over the Knicks was Washington’s seventh game in 12 days. The Bullets traveled to Houston on the morning of Oct. 31 for a game that night against the Rockets.

“The sleep walking Washington Bullets, playing in a different time zone for a third straight night, finally lost tonight, when a journeyman guard named Dave Wohl performed far above his usual standards and produced a 95-92 Houston Rockets victory,” the late Ken Denlinger wrote in The Post.

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“We were dead tired, they knew it and just ran us,” Jones said. “Three games in three nights, a game every other night for the last two weeks. It could have happened earlier. Even so, though we played a bad game, we almost got it out.”

The Bullets finished the season a franchise-best 60-22 and lost in the NBA Finals to the Golden State Warriors.

This year’s Wizards will go for their first 4-0 start since 1978 against Lonzo Ball and the Lakers on Wednesday.