Warriors rally for win, Clippers extend run

After the game, Green admitted that he was chasing stats and trying to get another assist to ensure a triple-double.

Green got hot as well, going 9 for 9 from the field on his way to notching his NBA-leading ninth triple-double of the season with 20 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.

Thompson continued a recent surge of incandescence, going 14-of-18 for 34 points.

“If the gods delivered what should have happened, we probably should have lost because that’s what happens when you mess around with the game and the ball”, Kerr said, according to the Associated Press.

The Golden State Warriors are the defending National Basketball Association champions, have the 2014-15 MVP in Stephen Curry, the team have a triple-double monster Draymond Green and the franchise’s second-best guard Klay Thompson, who has more 40-point games since the start of last season than anyone in the league except his teammate Curry, James Harden and Russell Westbrook, per ESPN Stats & Info. 500 even with a quiet 13 points from Stephen Curry. He was 5 for 17 from the field on a court where he’s enjoyed some big performances.

Curry finished with 23 points, while Green contributed 10 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists for the Warriors. “I just let it ride”.

If Steve Kerr has had the golden touch his first two seasons as Warriors coach, he can take that golden finger and point it at himself after their implosion Saturday.

“They’re a championship team, they really are”, said Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis, who had seven points and seven rebounds in his return Friday after missing his first game of the season Thursday with an upper respiratory illness.

Thompson had eight of those points, including a pair of three-pointers.

It happened not once but during all nine of his baskets in the Golden State Warriors’ 108-105 victory over the Sixers on Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center.

“Well, I think the similarity is you have to be good at both ends to win at this rate”, he said. They are 8-9 SU and 10-7 ATS against the Western Conference.

“I thought they went to another level of intensity”, Knicks coach Derek Fisher said of the Warriors’ 37-point effort in the second quarter. Hall of Famer and former Warriors star Chris Mullin was at the arena to visit his old team.

Center Festus Ezeli missed a third straight game because of a sore left knee and was scheduled to be re-evaluated Monday after the results of an MRI exam had been inconclusive, according to Kerr.

During that stretch of the third period to which Kerr was referring, Golden State gave the ball away six times in the opening five and a half minutes of the frame.

Is it just us, or have the Warriors looked a bit vulnerable lately? This time, Green achieved the feat while playing within game flow.

Athletes from other sports in the crowd included John McEnroe (tennis), Jim Furyk (golf), Matt Harvey (baseball) and Rashad Jennings (football).