Steph Curry scores 28 points as Warriors beat Nets 114-98
Steph Curry scored 16 of his 28 points in the third quarter and the Golden State Warriors ran their NBA-record start to 22-0 by beating the Brooklyn Nets 114-98 on Sunday night.
Draymond Green added 22 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. Klay Thompson scored 21 for the Warriors, who won their 26th in a row overall in the regular season, one behind the 2012-13 Miami Heat for the second-longest streak in NBA history.
Coming off consecutive 40-point games, Curry was having a relatively quiet and even puzzling night — he missed his first three free throws — before helping the Warriors regain control against a team that nearly beat them this season and looked capable of finishing the job this time. But the NBA MVP put together one of his electrifying flurries to end that notion, and Golden State put it away in a hurry with a blistering start to the fourth.
The Warriors equaled another NBA record, tying the 1969-70 New York Knicks for the best road start at 12-0. They visit Indiana on Tuesday.
Thaddeus Young had 25 points and 14 rebounds, and Brook Lopez scored 18 for the Nets, who had their four-game home winning streak snapped.
Lopez missed from point-blank range at the regulation buzzer on 14 November and the Warriors beat the Nets in overtime at home. Coach Luke Walton said the Warriors let the Nets have too good a start in that one, when Brooklyn scored 36 points in the first quarter. This time, Golden State bolted to a 9-0 lead and the only reason its 30-16 advantage after one wasn’t bigger was because the Warriors were just five for 14 at the free throw line — with Curry missing all three.
But with a season-best 38 points on 78% shooting in the second period, the Nets trimmed it to 57-54 at halftime, then opened a five-point lead late in the third. Curry answered with 11 points and a lob for Festus Ezeli’s slam in the final 2:10 of the period. Golden State led 87-80 before pouring it on in the fourth.
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