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NEW YORK (AP) – Golden State is about to win another easy win when the game is suddenly turned into a 3-point shootout.
Fortunately for the warriors, they have the ideal type for that.
Stephen Curry set another NBA record by scoring seven points to three and finished with 35 points while the Warriors were right to beat the Brooklyn Nets 120-114 on Sunday.
Kevin Durant added 34 for the Warriors, who ran before the Nets approached with some hot shots behind the bow.
Curry finally turned around when his last 3-pointer put 115-108 to play in 1:07. He made at least five 3s in 7 games, breaking George McCloud's six-game record in the 1995-96 season.
"They were hot in the fourth quarter to try to make the game interesting, but they played enough times to get the win," said Curry.
Klay Thompson continued to fight behind the arc, going 1 for 5 to 5 for 36 this season. He finished with 18 points and has not scored 20 points this season.
D & # 39; Angelo Russell scored 25 points and Caris LeVert had 23 for the Nets, who scored 20 points to 3 points in 42 attempts and reduced the deficit by 19 points to two.
"I think the 3-pointer brought them back into the game and we had to play a bit and run the course, so that was a solid exit for us," Durant said.
Golden State has won four straight since their only loss and the previous three all had at least 20 points. The franchise record is four straight wins of 20 points, set by the San Francisco Warriors in 1966-1967, and it appeared that the Warriors were going to match that.
Curry scored 16 points in the first quarter. The Nets hung up to half of the second third, and another 3 by Curry pushed him to 63-44 with 1:55 to make in the half.
"The way the first half went off, we could easily have gone to bed and it's not the kind of guy we've got in this locker room," said L & # 39; Nets coach Kenny Atkinson. "It's a resilient band and I thought they were arguing and it was good for fans to see that we were not succumbing to their talent or their aura, so to speak."
Draymond Green had 13 assists.
TIP-INS
Warriors: G Shaun Livingston missed the game with a right foot ache. Thompson met before the game with 14 young Caribbean players who are part of the NBA Jumpstart program. Players who visited the NBA facilities and monuments in New York were chosen by Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry after participating in an elite camp for senior Caribbean players 17 and under in Trinidad and Tobago.
Nets: Brooklyn has lost the last seven games. … Russell made five, while LeVert, Spencer Dinwiddie and Allen Crabbe all have four.
Sorry, coach
Steve Kerr said the DeMarcus Cousins apologized for his ejection Friday against the Knicks.
Cousins was sitting on the bench, in street clothes, when it was disputed with referee Scott Foster, who imposed a technical foul on him and then threw him out Kerr said that they had had a good conversation since and that the unstable center understands that things are different with the Warriors of the previous teams.
"That sort of thing is not going to help us win a championship, it's not going to help his reputation and I think he understands that," Kerr said.
SOMBER SPEAK
A dark Kerr said that the sad thing about the shooting that killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday is that he is not surprised when this happens because there is so much armed violence and divisions in the United States.
"We are broken right now and nothing surprises us anymore, nothing surprises me anymore," Kerr said. "Shooting in schools and churches, synagogues, shopping malls, cinemas, and we need our leaders to mobilize and unite the country with the appropriate words and appropriate actions, I do not know what to say."
Kerr said he was considering voting for all candidates who support the control and safety of firearms. His father, Malcolm Kerr, professor and president of the American University of Beirut, was shot dead outside his office in the war-torn Lebanese capital in 1984.
FOLLOWING
Warriors: Visit Chicago Monday.
Nets: Visit New York Monday.
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