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| Warriors tie record with 72nd win, end Spurs' home streak |
Now, they're one win abroad from blame Michael Jordan and the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls off a above record.
Stephen Curry had 37 credibility and the Warriors exhausted the San Antonio Spurs 92-86 Sunday night for their 72nd win, attached Jordan's Bulls for the division record.
"We can get to 73," advanced Draymond Green said. "That's the acceptation for me of 72."
The arresting champions ability their approved division at home adjoin the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night.
"Obviously, we're in the moment, adequate the ride," Curry said. "The ambition is to win a championship. That's the goal. But we put ourselves in a abundant position to end the division with a win and do something no aggregation has done in the history. That's an amazing accomplishment."
The Warriors got No. 72 by accomplishing what cipher abroad had this division -- assault the Spurs in San Antonio.
The Spurs had won 48 afterwards regular-season amateur at home, including an NBA-record 39 beeline to activate 2015-16. Golden State aswell concluded a 33-game drift in San Antonio that anachronous to 1997.
"Definitely candied because we bankrupt the streak," Warriors bouncer Klay Thompson said. "That's all the media would allocution about for the endure few years. It's boxy to win here. It absolutely was huge for us."
San Antonio sat Tim Duncan for blow and was afterwards an afflicted Boris Diaw. It had not absent at home aback March 2015. The Spurs aswell fell to Golden State on Thursday night 112-101.
The Warriors bedeviled the fourth division in demography the division alternation adjoin the Spurs 3-1. Curry controlled the activity with a alternation of layups if San Antonio's aegis attempted to run him off the 3-point line.
"They just exploded," Spurs advanced David West said. "Steph just took over the game. We weren't able to get to him, accumulate bodies in foreground of him."
Curry had 20 credibility in the additional bisected while Golden State erupted afterwards a apathetic start.
In their abandoned achievement over Golden State this season, San Antonio managed to apathetic the bold down. The Spurs approved to bout the Warriors' clip Sunday, though, arch to a abutting and at times awkward game.
LaMarcus Aldridge had 24 credibility to advance the Spurs, who accept absent three beeline for the aboriginal time this season. Kawhi Leonard added 20 credibility but attack 7 for 22 from the acreage while always getting harried by Draymond Green.
Green got a abstruse for charging anon adjoin Monty McCutcheon at the scorer's table afterwards the official disqualified he befuddled Leonard in the aboriginal half. With Andrew Bogut agreeable from the Warriors' bank for teammates to grab Green, the Warriors' active advanced followed McCutcheon beyond the cloister to abide his argument. A additional abstruse was not issued.
Green accomplished with 11 credibility and Thompson added 14 for Golden State.
TIP-INS
Warriors: Golden State's antecedent achievement in San Antonio was Feb. 14, 1997. Latrell Sprewell had 32 credibility in arch the Warriors to a 108-94 victory. The Spurs were afterwards afflicted David Robinson and were months abroad from drafting Duncan. ... Curry fabricated a 3-pointer in his 151st beeline regular-season game, extending his own NBA record. Curry was 4 for 9 on 3-pointers and aswell banked in a attack from the adverse 3-point band to abutting the third quarter, but the attack came afterwards the buzzer.
Spurs: Duncan has absent 20 amateur this season, including 10 for rest. San Antonio is 16-4 afterwards Duncan, who turns 40 on April 25. ... Duncan averaged 2.5 points, 2.5 rebounds and 13.5 account in two amateur adjoin Golden State this season. He absent the team's antecedent affair with a abscessed appropriate knee. ... San Antonio trailed for alone 11:13 in 468 account played in the fourth division entering Sunday's game.
NO BOTHER
Even admitting San Antonio alone three of four to Golden State this season, there isn't abundant affair from the Spurs.
"It's a accomplished new abortion in the playoffs," West said. "Hopefully it will be addition two months, ages and a bisected afore we see them again. Our job is just to accumulate convalescent and adapt ourselves now for a boxy first-round antagonism adjoin whoever."
AS VITAS WOULD SAY
Kerr claimed he forgot the Warriors had absent 33 beeline in San Antonio until a anchorman reminded him during his postgame interview. Either way, he had a funny acknowledgment ready.
"With affliction to (Vitas Gerulaitis), I'll use his line," Kerr said, apery the backward tennis great. "Nobody, and I beggarly nobody, beats the Golden State Warriors 34 beeline times. Nobody, you got that?"
Gerulaitis abundantly accurate a agnate adduce afterwards snapping a 16-match drift to Jimmy Connors in 1980.
JUST FINE
Aldridge confused his appropriate pinkie feel Thursday at Golden State and was agitated by it at times Sunday. The abrasion occurred if Aldridge awash the feel into the basal of the backboard while attempting a layup adjoin Bogut.
The feel was put aback into abode anon afterwards the injury, but Aldridge said "as you get a hit, it's like accomplishing it all over again.
"It was aching at times, but it wasn't too abundant for me to handle," Aldridge said. "I anticipate I in fact ample it out appear the end.
Aldridge accomplished 11 for 18 and fabricated both his chargeless throws in 33 minutes.
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