Warriors’ Thompson to return against Milwaukee Bucks

The Milwaukee Bucks have defeated the Golden State Warriors 108-95 in easily the biggest upset of the season.

Their NBA-record start ended after 24 wins when they lost 108-95 to the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night. The Warriors’ record now matches what appeared on the shirts a group of Bucks fans wore during the game: 24-1. They also halted the Los Angeles Lakers’ 33 game winning streak with a team that was powered by Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West, back in 1972, still the longest winning streak in major professional sports history.

“We didn’t have it tonight”, Warriors interim head coach Luke Walton said. “The last week or so, with the road trip and things, we just found ways to win games but I don’t think we ever played our A-plus game”.

A night after scraping past Boston in double overtime, the tired National Basketball Association champions succumbed in Milwaukee on the final stop of a seven-game road trip.

What made this loss so surprising was the simple fact Milwaukee was in control and led by double digits the majority of the game. The Hornets have won nine of their last 11 with the only losses coming to Cleveland and Golden State.

Warriors: C Andrew Bogut, who was drafted first overall by the Bucks in 2005, finished with two points.

Houston’s James Harden scored 30 points, leading the Rockets to a runaway 126-97 win that condemned the Los Angeles Lakers to a 13th loss in 14 games. There probably won’t be too many more nights where they only hit six long balls all game, right? Playing less than 24 hours after tipping off a 124-119 double-overtime win at the Boston Celtics in which they sat two starters due to ankle injuries, Golden State saw Klay Thompson return to the starting lineup but suffered through one of its worst shooting nights of the season (40.9 percent from the field and 6-of-26 from three-point range).

Otto Porter scored a career-high 28 points and John Wall had 26 points and 16 assists for the Wizards, who beat the Mavericks for the first time since 2009.

The New York Knicks are 3.5 games further back after beating the Portland Trail Blazers 112-110 with 36 points in the fourth quarter, rounded off by six Carmelo Anthony free throws.

While the Warriors had bursts of confidence throughout the second half, they didn’t have the energy on either end of the floor to outlast a Bucks team that was bursting with confidence from start to finish.

MILWAUKEE – Antetokounmpo 4-10 2-3 11, Parker 9-14 1-3 19, Monroe 11-16 6-7 28, Mayo 6-13 2-2 18, Middleton 3-12 0-0 7, Carter-Williams 7-10 3-3 17, Vaughn 0-1 0-0 0, O’Bryant 1-5 0-0 2, Henson 3-8 0-0 6.

Stephen Curry posted a team-high 28 points, adding seven rebounds and five assists.

But the most telling statistic was the assist totals; the Bucks out-assisted the Warriors, the NBA’s best passing team, 31 to 23. Our defense has been slipping so we need to get back to the fundamentals and basics of the game. While Golden State had to rely nearly exclusively on Curry and Draymond Green for scoring, the Bucks’ balanced offense allowed them to go to the break up 11.

NBA MVP Stephen Curry expressed pride after the Golden State Warriors’ winning streak was ended by the Milwaukee Bucks.