Curry scores 44 as Warriors improve to 21-0

On Thursday, Warriors star Stephen Curry confirmed the Warriors popularity, reaching out to congratulate Barcelona’s Lionel Messi on his 30 million Instagram followers. Golden State is now 21-0 on the season and 11-0 on the road. Since that game, the Warriors have reeled off an additional eight-straight wins heading into tonight’s game at Air Canada Centre. “I got some shots up on that rim for three years every game night”, he said. I enjoy coming back here and playing.

Stephen Curry – 32 points, five rebounds, six assists…per game.

Just like that, two-fifths of what would’ve been Utah’s preferred starting lineup this season – and the two players generally regarded as the team’s best perimeter/interior defenders – are stuck on the shelf for extended periods of time. “Obviously that might happen eventually, but the look on our faces and our body language out there shows we’re a tested team that’s been through a lot in three or four years”.

Bryant, who announced three days ago he was retiring at the end of the regular season, rattled in the go-ahead jump shot with 30 seconds left in the fourth en route to a 108-104 win over the Washington Wizards.

“When he comes out of the locker room, you might want to shake his hand, escort him out (to the court) and be with him, because his range is off the charts”, Casey said before being asked if he’s seen anything work against Curry. “Twenty-one different challenges and we’ve been able to separate each one individually and figure out different ways of winning”.

Lowry had a career-high 41 points for Toronto. Guard DeMar DeRozan added 16 points for the Raptors, who have lost two in a row. They will be favoured to win in all but a handful of road games (1 each in San Antonio and Cleveland come to mind).

“It’s tough when we had an opportunity to (win), it was right there”, Lowry said. “We have to learn from it”. The lead was down to 76-73 when Nogueira put in a dunk with 2:52 left in the third quarter. Look no farther than Golden State’s 29.5 assists per game, a stat that Scott can really appreciate.

The Raptors might have made this even more interesting had Lowry and DeRozan hit their free throws in the final minute.

Curry and his teammates combined to hit their final 11 free-throw attempts to hold off Toronto for the second time in 2½ weeks.

“I love watching him play, I’m a big fan and he’s the guy you watch play because you never know what he is going to do at any particular moment”, Curry said. The Warriors are the first team to score 100 points or more in each of their first 20 games since the 1990-91 Denver Nuggets…. Soccer star Didier Drogba, Olympic gold medallist Donovan Bailey, and National Basketball Association legends Bob Lanier and Isiah Thomas, among others sat courtside, there as part of “Giants of Africa”, Raptors GM Masai Ujiri’s second annual celebration of Nelson Mandela.

Curry has six 40-point games already this season.

At some point in the game, he takes over.

To say the Golden State Warriors are having a historically good season would be an understatement.