Curry took just 16 shots for his season low in points, but the Warriors didn’t need the MVP to hand the Nuggets their third straight loss.
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“We’re trying to win another championship”, forward Draymond Green said. “That’s what we’re fueled by”. I apologize for all the accolades we received as a team and individually.
After an 1-11 start, the New Orleans Pelicans were looking at eliminating themselves from the playoffs before the New Year, but thinks finally might be headed in the right direction.
Legendary coach Red Auerbach’s Washington Capitols opened the 1948-49 season with 15 victories and so did the great centre Hakeem Olajuwon’s 1993-94 Houston Rockets, but that’s where both teams’ streaks ended. On Friday, Golden State became the first team since the 2002-03 Dallas Mavericks to start 14-0. Asked about the 15-0 record, Curry said: “It’s a huge accomplishment”. “You never know if you’ll ever be in this position again”.
Much has been made of Stephen Curry’s preposterous start to the season, and rightly so – Curry is averaging 33.6 points per game, singlehandedly winning a few games in the process – but it wasn’t Curry who won Sunday’s game. Klay Thompson went 4-for-7 from the three-point arc and scored 21, and Stephen Curry placed 19 points on the board, as the undefeated Warriors put forth a team effort sans sensational stat lines.
“We might go up there and we might play like gangbusters up there”, Bryant said Sunday in Los Angeles. “I think the most impressive thing is the way they just they’ve been playing at a high level, man, for so long”. Isaiah Thomas and Avery Bradley each scored 27 points for the Celtics, while Brook Lopez (23) led the way for the victors.
Thompson top-scored with 21 points. However, GS came all the way back in the game, posting a 7-point win for what amounted to a 30-point turnaround. And you’d be foolish to bet against them doing it, since they play the lowly 2-11 Los Angeles Lakers Tuesday in Oakland. “Then there would be a conversation to talk about”, James said.
Warriors interim coach Luke Walton added cheekily that Curry “was decenttonight”.
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Darrell Arthurs had 21 points, Italy’s Danilo Gallinari and Will Barton added 19 apiece for Denver (6-8) which fell for fourth time in the last six games.
