He sunk 10 of his 11 shots and went 5 for 5 from three-point range.
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Curry’s explosion came over the final 7min 26sec of the third. “I felt like he may not have a great start, but once he got a feel for the game, he would ride the wave”, Fraser told ESPN.
“It was a cool atmosphere to play in, especially on top of my dad’s ceremony” he said.
Forty points, 28 in a numbing third quarter, plenty of fourth-quarter rest and a winning streak that has now reached 20 to start the season.
“I hadn’t used that hairstyle since 2009”, Neymar said to Globo. I feel like I’m undersized, but I feel like I have a lot of fight in me. I am just staying in the moment. The undefeated Warriors rolled over the Hornets, 116-99, for their 20th win. They realize it will happen, but they’re playing like they don’t want it to happen, and it certainly wasn’t falling on a night where it was all Curry, all the time.
“He didn’t make any guarantees”, Curry said with a smile.
The Warriors took command quickly, racing to a 28-13 lead and never looking back. Fifteen of those twenty-one points were in the first quarter, and Thompson was integral in developing an early lead over the Hornets.
George scored at least 20 points in 12 straight games to close out November, the longest streak of his career.
“The one thing that is disappointing, and that has to change is you can’t pick and choose when you’re going to be physical”, said Hornets coach Steve Clifford. Even though Curry isn’t needed in the fourth quarter, his killer instinct is still taking over in the first half.
Whether you look at the historical standpoint or the current play on the court, it’s not a far fetched idea to see the writing on the wall of consecutive National Basketball Association championships. His performance was so good that the crowd applauded. “To get this respect is awesome”.
But most importantly for Bryant he still had something left in the tank in the fourth quarter with the game on the line.
“It doesn’t even sound right”, Curry said. “I have pushed it hard in training”. I can’t ask for more.
Bulls 99, Nuggets 90 – Pau Gasol had 26 points and 18 rebounds to lift host Chicago over struggling Denver.
Spurs 95, Bucks 70 – Tim Duncan had 16 points and 10 rebounds in 19 minutes, and San Antonio routed Milwaukee to remain unbeaten at home. Golden State’s 16 wins in November tied the franchise-mark for wins in a month set in March 2015. Among those five teams, a pair made it to the Conference Finals and one team, the 1948-49 Washington Capitols, made it to the Finals, falling in six games to the Minneapolis Lakers.
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ROCKETS 108, PELICANS 101: In Houston, James Harden scored 24 points as the Rockets overcame a double-digit deficit.
