Golden State led 87-80 before pouring it on in the fourth. LeBron had 18 points and four assists in the final 12 minutes, while Wade tried to keep Miami in the game with 21 points of his own.
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The Golden State Warriors maintained their incredible unbeaten start to the season after seeing off the Brooklyn Nets 114-98 on Sunday. They led by as many as 17, at 26-9, and closed the first with a 30-16 lead. On Saturday in Toronto, he made nine three-pointers and had 44 points in a win over Toronto, his seventh game this season scoring 40 or more points. They held a 57-42 lead late in the first half but settled for a 57-54 lead after giving up 12 straight points.
Rudy Gay scored 20 points and pulled down seven rebounds for the Kings. Houston’s James Harden scored 31 points to lead the Rockets past Sacramento 120-113 and to a third straight win. The last five-point lead was 75-70 on a 3-pointer by guard Shane Larkin with 3:10 left.
Kyle Lowry made six three-pointers and scored a career-high 41 points for the Raptors. While the Warriors are at the top of the league looking down, the Nets are close to the bottom looking up with a 5-15 record.
“It’s pretty purposeful, just trying to see if I can get some room and figure out a way to impact the game”, Curry said of being more aggressive in the third. Behind-the-back saves of balls going out of bounds.
Under 5 to go before the half, DeMar DeRozan with the jam. Raptors take a 1-point lead. “It’s not like we went to Steph and told him to shoot more threes, he’s just gotten better and he’s choosing to do that”. Actually I could write that line a number of times – Curry is a backbreaker. “I don’t think I’ve ever been 22-0 in my life”.
The Warriors had seen a 17-point lead turn into a deficit of as many as five points.
“I have to have a great imagination on the floor, ” Curry said. This was also the second night of a back-to-back on the schedule, the Warriors’ fourth game of this road trip that will span two weeks. “When he needs to he can and when he doesn’t need to he takes a backseat to those guys”. “We constantly encourage our guys to be on the attack”. Great players don’t become great overnight. Once he starts to get going, starts to get in his rhythm, it’s hard to stop the whole team. In addition, Curry also has career highs this season in rebounds per game (4.9), steals (2.3), field goal percentage (52.7) and three-point field goal percentage (46.8).
Walton’s famous father, Bill, is a former teammate of Nets head coach Lionel Hollins in Portland and the families spent time together over the summer in San Diego when Luke was a child. “There’s a little bit of fan, a little bit of, ‘Can we get better and improve ourselves?’ They’re good for the league”.
“I enjoy coming back here and playing, it’s a familiar setting”.
You can hold on to the memory of the historical Bulls as much as you want to but know their record is in serious jeopardy. “They’re a resilient team”.
The Nets pushed the Warriors to overtime in November before Golden State ran away with 10 unanswered points in the extra period for a 107-99 win.
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Against the hapless Lakers, they showed it again early on outscoring Los Angeles, 30-11 after the first quarter and cruised to the easy win. If they survive it unscathed the rest of their schedule plays out favourably. We accomplished it and now we have to make sure we don’t drop off and give a game away just because we broke this record.
