Curry fires up Warriors
Los Angeles, Jan. 14: Stephen Curry scored 48 points and drained 11 three pointers as the Golden State Warriors stretched their win streak to four straight with a 119114 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Monday.
Curry tallied 24 points in the second half and scored the final seven for two-time defending league champion Golden State. He also made the game-winning shot in a contest that Dallas led by five, 113-108, with just under four minutes left in regulation.
Kevin Durant scored 28 points and Klay Thompson made just twoof-11 three point attempts but still managed to score
16.
Luka Doncic, who is a candidate for rookie of the year, led Dallas with
26 points, making five of
10 from beyond the arc and adding five assists and six rebounds.
Forward Harrison Barnes scored 22 in the loss. Barnes was trying to get off a game-tying three-pointer with five seconds to go, but the ball slipped out of his hands and rolled out of to seal the win Warriors.
Golden State now head to Denver on Tuesday for a showdown with the Nuggets. bounds for the DECCAN CHRONICLE
Elsewhere, Serge Ibaka drained the go-ahead three-pointer with 15 seconds left in the second overtime Sunday to lift the Toronto Raptors to a 140-138 victory over the TUESDAY | 15 JANUARY 2019 | HYDERABAD Washington Wizards.
Kawhi Leonard led the Raptors with 41 points. That included 10 in overtime as Toronto finally put away the Wizards in a game in which the Raptors led by as many as
23.
The Raptors, who improved to an NBA-best
33-12, burst out of the gate and were up 51-28 late in the second quarter and by
17 with less than a minute to play in the third.
Washington chipped away, helped by Bradley Beal’s second triple-double of the season with 43 points, 10 assists and 15 rebounds.
In New York, the Philadelphia 76ers welcomed Joel Embiid back with a hard-fought 108-105 victory over the host Knicks.
Embiid scored 26 points in his return to the starting lineup, pulling down eight rebounds and blocking six shots.