Saturday, January 28, 2017

Curry's 43, halfcourt shot help Warriors beat Clippers 144-98

halfcourt shot help Warriors beat Clippers 144-98
Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry, left, celebrates a score in front of Los Angeles Clippers' Raymond Felton (2) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, in Oakland, Calif. 


By JOSH DUBOW, AP Sports Writer 

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — When Kevin Durant touched base in Golden State this season, Stephen Curry attempted ahead of schedule in the season to ensure his new colleague got his shots. 

Warriors mentor Steve Kerr needed Curry to know how imperative it was for him to be forceful also. 

With his first halfcourt signal mixer of the season took after by an amazing quarter, Curry looked simply like the player who won the MVP the previous two years. 

Curry scored 25 of his 43 focuses in the second from last quarter taking after his long-ago shot to end of the main half, driving the Warriors to their ninth win in 10 amusements, 144-98 over the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night. 

"I must be forceful," Curry said. "That is the thing about us. We do have a great deal of ability. There's an exercise in careful control with it." 

Curry had over and over again conceded ahead of schedule in the season yet has been searching for his shot a greater amount generally. He had nine 3-pointers against the Clippers on a night that started with his playing status in uncertainty in view of a sore left quad. 

"What Steph has acknowledged is he can simply act naturally and let it fly," Kerr said. "He doesn't need to stress over Kevin or any other individual. We bolster off Steph's vitality and shooting." 

Durant included 23 focuses and Klay Thompson scored 16 to give Golden State its eighth straight win over its Southern California equal. 

Blake Griffin scored 20 focuses for the battling Clippers, who have lost four of five since star point watch Chris Paul ran down with a torn tendon in his left thumb. 

"We just got humiliated on national TV so no one's inclination great right now," watch Austin Rivers said. 

The Warriors tore open the diversion with a 17-6 keep running over the last 2:14 of the main half. Draymond Green started it when he blocked Griffin and afterward beat him withdraw the floor for a dunk. Curry punctuated the half with his 51-footer to make it 72-51. Curry pigeon to the floor in festivity before hitting the dance floor with his colleagues. This was his first wicker bin of the year from past 40 feet in the wake of making four last season. 

Curry lifted it up in the third when he outscored the Clippers 25-23. He made consecutive 3s late in the quarter to make it a 34-point amusement. His eighth 3 of the night in the last moment of the third made it 117-74. 

"Turning out, I made my first shot in the second from last quarter and that simply proceeded with the pattern," Curry said. "Enormous mo going into the half and we could keep that vitality as a gathering and have a stunning second from last quarter." 

TIP-INS 

Scissors: DeAndre Jordan made every one of the four shots and is shooting 82 percent in the course of the last six recreations. 

Warriors: Golden State outshot its rival for a 21st straight diversion, the longest streak in the group since Miami likewise did it 21 straight in 2004-05, as per the Elias Sports Bureau. ... F Andre Iguodala, playing on his 33rd birthday, recorded his 5,000th profession bounce back in the main quarter. 

QUOTABLE 

Mentor Doc Rivers, on if the Warriors have a mental edge on the Clippers: "Well, they ought to have one in the event that they don't. ... In the event that I won eight amusements consecutively, I would have a mental edge." 

HOMECOMING 

Scissors forward Marreese Speights played his first consistent season diversion at Oracle since leaving the Warriors as a free operator in the offseason. He got a warm applause from the swarm when he checked in interestingly and immediately permitted Curry to blow past him for a layup. Speights completed with five focuses. 

"Mo is one of my most loved individuals that I have ever been around," Kerr said. "He's recently got a grin all over constantly. He cherishes to play. He cherishes to give, he's an extraordinary shooter. He was such a professional for us the last couple of years." 

Standing up 

Kerr, who has been candid in his feedback of President Donald Trump, was requested his response to the crackdown on movement from seven Muslim-greater part nations. He said he would not like to divert from the diversion, however, said: "What's going on right now is truly startling and perplexing."

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