Tuesday’s National Basketball Association scores: Klay Thompson scores 36, Warriors improve to 33-2

And with other teams putting their best defender on Curry while trying to play their best big man against Green, Thompson will continue to score at will against any player trying to stay with him, proving time and time again that you just can’t forget about Klay. “It’s taking a little longer than he thought, I guess”.

He had 13 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists to join Tom Gola in 1959-60 as the only Warriors players ever to get triple-doubles in three straight games.

The Golden State Warriors picked up their 35th straight regular season home win last night as they beat the Charlotte Hornets 111-101.

Curry is now dealing with swelling and a contusion in his shin and the only way to possibly let it fully heal would be rest but Curry has no plans of sitting out. Of course, he won’t sit out that amount of time to get rid of all the swelling. Dell, a former basketball player himself, tells his son, “It’s going to take a lot of hard work and practice”. Afterwards interim head coach Luke Walton, whose team is now 33-2, was asked about his decision to re-insert Curry in the fourth quarter.

The Warriors announced early in the fourth quarter that Curry would not return to the game, which by then was well in hand.

“I wasn’t going to put him back out there at first but he was pretty adamant about going back out there”, Walton said.

Even as the Warriors had Curry hobbling and were missing multiple reserves, the Lakers didn’t stand much of a chance without Kobe Bryant and D’Angelo Russell – two of their top four scorers.

As Thompson quarters go, not many of them can measure up to his 37-point outburst last season. But Thompson coming out firing with 22 points in the first quarter against the Lakers was a sight to see. The Lakers managed 33.3 percent on field goals and 3-pointers. In the first 19 games the Warriors played throughout October and November, Thompson averaged a mere 15.4 points, equivalent to his scoring output in his second year with Golden State.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

“We want that thing to get well, because right now the way it looks, he plays and a couple days later it gets sore again”.

Draymond Green’s streak of three straight triple-doubles ended with nine points, 12 rebounds and five assists. “He’s been playing at a high level, it’s nice that he’s back at that all-star level”. Los Angeles would outscore Golden State 28-17 in the final frame and close out the game on a 9-2 run, but they had dug themselves far too deep a hole to climb all the way out of, as the Warriors coasted to a 109-88 victory.

For the Warriors, guard Leandro Barbosa (left shoulder sprain) and James Michael McAdoo (sprained toe) were unavailable.