Nuggets tie NBA mark with 24 3s in 132 win over warriors

DENVER (AP) -- The sellout crowd at the Pepsi Center came to see the sharpshooters, and they did. Only, it wasn't the Golden State Warriors hitting from long range, but the shorthanded Denver Nuggets.

"Once we saw a few go in, we just wanted to keep going, see how many we could hit," Will Barton said after the Nuggets tied an NBA record with 24 3-pointers while shocking the Warriors 132-110 on Monday night.

The Nuggets beat the Warriors at their own game, but it wasn't by desi gn.

"We just wanted to get after them, challenge them on offense and defense. It just so happened that we hit a lot of 3s. So, we just kept rolling with it," Barton said. "But we never come into a game, especially with a team like that and just want to outshoot them from beyond the arc because that's what they do."

The Warriors couldn't counter Denver's dizzying display, sinking just 8 of 32 3-pointers.

Even Stephen Curry couldn't keep up with Denver's surprise sharpshooters, finishing 1 of 11 from beyond the arc.

"I felt confident, every shot I took felt like it was going in," Curry said. "Just got served a humble slice of cupcake."

The only Denver player who didn't join the long-range barrage was Nikola Jokic, who was too busy setting career highs with 12 assists and 21 rebounds to go with 17 points in his second career tripledoubl e.

The Nuggets tied the 3-point mark set by the Rockets in December against New Orleans when rookie Juan Hernangomez sank his sixth three at the 2minute mark.

"Yeah, we knew it at the end," Gary Harris said. "We were trying to get one more."

But their last two 3pointers in the final minute rattled out, and Jamal Murray passed up an uncontested 3 to dribble out the clock. Denver finished 24 of 40 from beyond the arc.

"Every time somebody shot, it just felt like the ball was going in," Harris said. "It's cr azy."

Hernangomez scored a season-high 27 points to go with a seasonbest 10 boards, Barton added 24 points and Jameer Nelson 23.

Kevin Durant led Golden State with 25 points 48 hours after his emotional return to Oklahoma City.

He kept waiting for the Nuggets to cool off, and they never did.

"I thought they would. They were playing confident and free," Durant said. "They had nothing to lose, especially missing some of their guys."

The Warriors' ninth loss of the season matched their total from last year when they set an NBA record by winning 73 games. This also marked their biggest loss since a 129-100 blowout at the hands of the Spurs in the season opener.

"It was one of those nights they had everything going, they were on fire and we couldn't get much going ourselves," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. "We looked kind of gassed out there."