Stephen Curry had the second most points scored by a reigning National Basketball Association MVP in 52 years, scoring 40 points to lead to Golden State Warriors over the New Orleans Pelicans, 111-96, on Tuesday night. It was Curry’s 10th-career 40-point game in the regular season, plus three such performances in the playoffs.
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Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut has a concussion after taking an arm to the head in Tuesday night’s season-opening win against New Orleans.
The Warriors raised their banner and received their championship rings and exuded an abundance of swag during the whole ceremony.
Despite the notion that a jump-shooting team can’t win a championship (which Warriors’ fans didn’t let Charles Barkley forget with this t-shirt seen in Oracle), the Warriors ran through the Pelicans, the Memphis Grizzlies, the Houston Rockets, and the Cleveland Cavaliers to be the last team standing. In a piece of great timing, Apple recently debuted two new iPhone 6s ads, showing Golden State Warriors player Stephen Curry shooting hoops. Naturally, it wasn’t a ideal display from both an individual or collective point of view, and for the Los Angeles Clippers it was another excuse to suggest that the Warriors were lucky given the injuries that the Pelicans had to deal with going into the game. Despite Bogut wearing a protective face mask due to the broken nose he suffered in preseason action, the hit was severe enough to create a laceration around his eye, spilling blood all over the court.
Interim coach Luke Walton said earlier Wednesday that if Bogut were to be diagnosed with a concussion, “we’ll have other bigs step up and fill that role”.
Pistons 106, Hawks 94: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 21 points to lead all five Detroit starters in double figures, carrying the Pistons to a surprising victory over Atlanta and ruining the home opener of the team with the best record in the Eastern Conference last season.
“It’s killing me not to be out there tonight”, he said. “This is the last straw of the whole championship celebration”, Curry said.
With the first win of the season already complete, the Warriors are shaping up for another explosive season within the Pacific Division.
The Warriors had a strong start, as they rallied behind the 24-point eruption of Curry in the first period, but the Pelicans managed to stay with striking distance, 39-35, after the first 12 minutes of the game.
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Last season, Bogut dealt with knee troubles and missed 15 games.
