Stephen Curry became the archetypal subordinate successful NBA past to marque 3000 vocation 3-pointers successful a crippled wherever the Denver Nuggets hardly held disconnected the NBA-leading Golden State Warriors 89-86.
Denver's Nikola Jokic blocked a imaginable game-tying changeable by Jonathan Kuminga successful the last seconds to sphere the triumph aft his squad astir blew a 24-point halftime lead. The Warriors got 1 much accidental to necktie the game, but Andre Iguodala missed a 3-pointer astatine the buzzer.
"I couldn't beryllium much arrogant of our guys," Nuggets manager Michael Malone said.
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"I thought Will Barton, down the stretch, made a mates of big, large plays."
Barton had 21 points, portion Jokic led Denver with 22 points, 18 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 steals.
"Nikola having 18 rebounds, 22 points and making a key, cardinal play down the agelong is wherefore he's a large player," Malone said. "You request those types of plays to propulsion retired wins similar this."
Andrew Wiggins had 21 points and 8 rebounds for Golden State successful his archetypal crippled backmost from the league's COVID-19 wellness and information protocols. Curry, who scored 21 of his 23 points successful the 2nd half, made a country 3-pointer precocious successful the 3rd 4th to springiness him 157 consecutive games with a 3-point tract goal. It ties his ain NBA record, which helium acceptable from 2014-16.
The Warriors trailed 60-36 astatine the half, but kept Denver down offensively portion opening the 3rd 4th connected a 17-5 tally to chopped Denver's pb to 65-53.
They pulled wrong 5 connected a Curry step-back 3-pointer with 7:20 remaining successful the 4th fourth earlier helium made back-to-back 3-pointers to chopped the Nuggets' pb to 84-82 with 2:08 left.
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Golden State tied the crippled astatine 84 connected a dunk by Gary Payton II with 1:04 remaining. Barton enactment the Nuggets backmost successful beforehand 86-84 with a tip-in connected the ensuing possession and Denver held connected to triumph contempt scoring conscionable 29 points successful the 2nd half.
"They were the aggressor from the start," Warriors manager Steve Kerr said.
"I loved the mode we fought backmost successful the 2nd fractional and gave ourselves a chance. Really arrogant of the guys for the effort, but evidently we've got to play better."
The Nuggets started the crippled connected a 10-0 tally and built a 31-16 pb aft the archetypal quarter. Curry remained scoreless heavy into the archetypal half, yet getting his archetypal points with 2:08 remaining successful the 2nd quarter.
Golden State's 86 points were a play low, and the squad made conscionable 16 of 31 escaped throws.
"We conscionable came retired flat," Warriors guardant Juan Toscano-Anderson said.
"We sucked successful the archetypal half. We conscionable dug ourselves a spread excessively heavy to get retired of."
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