Warriors win 41st straight home game, 116-108 over Thunder

Curry scored 26 points and keyed a strong closing stretch that sent the Golden State Warriors to their 41st straight regular-season home win, 116-108 over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night.

“This was a playoff-like atmosphere”, said Warriors Stephen Curry, who scored a team-high 26 points.

Due to the Golden State Warriors’ hot start, the question everyone has been asking this National Basketball Association season is: Will they be able to surpass the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls’ 72-10 record?

Before their eight-point loss to the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night, the Thunder had won five-straight and 12 out of their last 14.

At the other end, Curry shrugged off a terrible shooting night (7-22 when the Thunder tied the game) to close out the game 3-4.

Cleveland almost squandered a 15-point lead for the second time in as many nights.

Parker finished with 14 points but snapped a 99-99 deadlock by hitting a 17-footer with 1:59 remaining before adding a layup with 1:02 remaining. Home against the mighty Spurs?

In Houston, Damian Lillard had 21 points and 10 assists to lead a balanced scoring attack as Portland built a big lead early and rolled to an easy win. 50 games into the regular season, the rest of the NBA’s best still haven’t found a way to beat this team.

Winning a title means inevitably going through the Warriors and the Thunder showed in one game they have as good a shot as anyone. He led the National Basketball Association in 3-point shooting percentage with 47.8 his rookie year – the first rookie to do so in National Basketball Association history.

Shaun Livingston also had a spectacular game, keeping the Warriors struggling offense afloat during the first half of the fourth quarter, with eight points.

George was 6 of 7 from the field in the opening 24 minutes when the Pacers made 12 of their first 14 field attempts and shot 68.4 before halftime. The Thunder connected on 29 of 37 free throws with Durant going 13 of 13 from the line. Michael Jordan had 44 points, Scottie Pippen 40, and Dennis Rodman had 23 rebounds. They have won those 10 games by an average of more than 16 points. While Curry and Thompson’s threes were felt more closely contested than they usually have been this season, they will not go a combined 2-15 from deep very often at full strength.

We won’t waste a lot of digital ink charting out the Byzantine complexity involved in trying to quantify a given player’s value to his team, or revisiting the old familiar arguments about which major factors should weigh more heavily than others when it comes to awarding the league’s most prestigious individual accolade, i.e. the NBA MVP trophy. Butler was injured in Friday’s loss at Denver and his status for next weekend’s All-Star game is unknown.

In Memphis, Chandler Parsons scored 26 points, including a pair of 3-pointers in overtime. OKC and GSW are two evenly matched teams so what was the difference in the game? Deron Williams added 22 points as Dallas snapped a three-game losing streak.

San Antonio (43-8) improved to 28-0 at the AT&T Center this season. Forward Nerlens Noel added 18 for the 76ers, who closed the game with a 10-2 run.

Green grabbed a couple of huge rebounds late. Raul Neto and Rudy Gobert contributed 13 points apiece for Utah (24-24), which reached the. Bogut was useless on those possessions (as Mark Jackson gleefully noted) and Durant slipped to the rim on two dribbles easily. As one would expect, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook either scored or assisted every point of that stretch.