National Basketball Association roundup: Warriors now 22-0

Wesley Matthews scored 28 of his season-high 36 points in the second half and visiting Dallas rolled over Washington.

They dragged the Warriors into a methodical halfcourt slugfest and reeled off a 16-0 run that spanned halftime, turning a 15-point deficit into a 58-57 lead. On the next possession, he gave the Warriors the lead for good with an uncontested 3-pointer and finished the quarter by finding Ezeli for an alley-oop dunk before converting a 3-point play and knocking down a 3-pointer with 1.9 seconds left.

The winning streak has come with hype, with scores of Warriors fans flocking to each of Golden State’s road games, whether it be in Charlotte or Brooklyn. Defenses have to put two guys on him 25 feet from the basket, it allows our other guys to get open looks and driving lanes.

Thaddeus Young had 25 points and 14 rebounds for the Nets, who had their four-game home winning streak snapped.

Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov was in attendance, but he declined to comment on the state of his team after the game, saying, “Later, maybe”. The Nets had no answer for Carmelo Anthony, who had 28 points, and rookie sensation Kristaps Porzingis, who had a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds.

In Auburn Hills, Michigan, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 22 points, Andre Drummond added 18 points and 15 rebounds and the Pistons beat Los Angeles in Kobe Bryant’s last visit to Detroit.

“That’s what great players can do”.

The Warriors are now 21-0, officially the best start ever for a professional sports team.

“It’s pretty purposeful, just trying to see if I can get some room and figure out a way to impact the game”, Curry said of being more aggressive in the third. They split with Golden State the previous two seasons, and led by 17 points at Oracle Arena on November 14 and by three with less than 10 seconds left in regulation.

Last month in Oakland, Brooklyn was within seconds of ending Golden State’s start before it became a historic one.

“We battled and scratched and clawed, but they just stayed with their game until they overwhelmed us later on. I feel like I can do more as a coach, and I feel like the team can do more: We just didn’t”. “I don’t know”, Warriors interim coach Luke Walton said.

“That’s why we have so much faith in them”, Walton said about the second unit. The players all wore specially designed T-shirts during warmups and on the bench and the Raptors welcomed a number of special guests, including former National Basketball Association stars Isiah Thomas and Bob Lanier along with global soccer star Didier Drogba. The Nets shot 51.6 percent in the final three quarters and finished at 43.8 percent. His most influential work was done in the final moments of the third quarter. Really, we didn’t have to get the starters back in there at all in the fourth on the back end of a back-to-back and that was huge.