OAKLAND, Calif. – Stephen Curry overcame his worst shooting night of the season to score 22 points and the Golden State Warriors beat the Detroit Pistons 109-95 on Monday night to remain the NBA’s only undefeated team.
OAKLAND, Calif. – Stephen Curry overcame his worst shooting night of the season to score 22 points and the Golden State Warriors beat the Detroit Pistons 109-95 on Monday night to remain the NBA’s only undefeated team.
Curry missed five of his first seven shots and finished 7 of 18 from the floor while being held under 30 points for only the third time this season. The reigning MVP also had five assists and five rebounds.
Klay Thompson added 24 points, Harrison Barnes had 12, Andre Iguodala scored 13 and Leandro Barbosa had 10, including five straight to help the Warriors pull away in the fourth quarter.
Golden State’s 8-0 start is the second-best in franchise history. The Philadelphia Warriors won their first nine games in 1960-61.
Reggie Jackson, coming off a career-high 40-point night in Portland, scored 20 points for Detroit (5-2). Andre Drummond added 14 points and 15 rebounds.
CLIPPERS 94,
REDIC 92
LOS ANGELES – J.J. Redick scored six points in the final 55 seconds to rally the Los Angeles Clippers to a 94-92 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night, snapping a two-game skid.
Blake Griffin had 24 points and 12 rebounds, and DeAndre Jordan added 13 points and 12 rebounds for the Clippers during a back-and-forth game in which neither team led by more than eight points.
Redick finished with 16 points, but his biggest contributions came when he hit a go-ahead 3-pointer and then got fouled by Tony Allen and made all three free throws to put the Clippers ahead 90-86.
Zach Randolph scored 26 points to lead the Grizzlies, who dropped their third in a row. Marc Gasol added 18 points and Mike Conley had 16.
Knicks 99,
Lakers 95
NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony scored 24 points and the New York Knicks spoiled what might have been Kobe Bryant’s last game at Madison Square Garden, beating the Los Angeles Lakers 99-95 on Sunday.
Bryant finished with 18 points, far off the 30.7 per game he had been averaging here and fewer than half the 40 or more he managed on three occasions during a series of highlights in the arena.
The 37-year-old superstar, who hasn’t said if he will retire after this season, missed two shots and twice fouled Anthony during New York’s 11-0 run that turned a three-point deficit into a 98-90 lead.
Jose Calderon, Robin Lopez and Langston Galloway all scored 14 points for the Knicks, who snapped a three-game losing streak with their first home victory of the season.
CAVALIERS 101,
PACERS 97
CLEVELAND — LeBron James scored 29 points playing with a bruised quadriceps, and the Cavaliers beat the Pacers for their sixth straight win.
James took a knee to the leg Friday and said he would get round-the-clock treatment so he could play against the Pacers. The treatment paid off as James hit seven free throws down the stretch and found Kevin Love for two key baskets in the final 27 seconds.
Love scored 22 points and had 19 rebounds for the Cavaliers, who haven’t lost since the season opener against Chicago.
Paul George scored 32 points for Indiana, which went scoreless for nearly four minutes after taking a 90-88 lead.
PISTONS 120,
TRAIL BLAZERS 103
PORTLAND, Ore. — Andre Drummond had 29 points and 27 rebounds, Reggie Jackson scored a career-high 40 points and Detroit rallied in the fourth quarter to beat Portland.
Jackson had 26 points in the fourth quarter alone and the Pistons outscored the Blazers 41-11 in the final period.
It was the Pistons’ first win in Portland since 2007 and snapped a six-game overall losing streak to the Blazers.
Damian Lillard had 26 points and 11 rebounds and the Blazers’ modest three-game winning streak was snapped. C.J. McCollum added 18 points.
The Blazers led by as many as 18 points in the third quarter, but Detroit’s Kentavious Caldwell-Pope hit a 3-pointer that closed the gap to 98-92 with 7:18 left.
Drummond’s layup pulled the Pistons within 98-96 and Jackson’s floater with 5:21 left tied it at 98. Jackson hit another to put the Piston’s in front with 4:46 left, and they never trailed again.
HEAT 96,
RAPTORS 76
MIAMI — Chris Bosh scored 23 points, Hassan Whiteside added 20 points and 11 rebounds, and the Heat rolled in the second half to beat the Raptors.
Dwyane Wade scored 12 and Tyler Johnson added 10 for Miami, which outscored the Raptors 30-16 in the third and then put the game away with an 18-3 run in the fourth.
Jonas Valanciunas scored 17 for Toronto.
Including playoffs, it was the 250th consecutive home sellout for Miami.
THUNDER 124,
SUNS 103
OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant had 32 points and 11 rebounds, and the Thunder beat the Suns to snap a three-game losing streak.
Russell Westbrook had 21 points, 13 assists and six rebounds, and Enes Kanter had 21 points on 9-for-10 shooting for the Thunder, who forced 23 turnovers and outrebounded Phoenix 52-33.
Eric Bledsoe had 28 points and 11 assists, Markieff Morris scored 19 points and T.J. Warren added 17 for Phoenix, which lost for the third time in four games.