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Golden State Warriors erase 25-point deficit to beat Los Angeles Lakers 112-95 as Stephen Curry scores 31 and outduels Luka Doncic’s 37
Stephen Curry made eight threes and passed Dominique Wilkins on the career scoring list as Golden State won the last three quarters 97-57 after trailing 38-15, spoiling Luka Doncic's 37 points in the NBA Cup group opener.
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Stephen Curry scored 31 points with 8 threes, and the Golden State Warriors came back from 25 points down to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 112-95 at Chase Center on Friday, October 30, in both teams’ opener in Emirates NBA Cup group play. Golden State is 3-3 and Los Angeles is 4-2.
Luka Doncic scored 37 points for the Lakers, 21 of them in the first quarter, but Los Angeles managed 15 points in each of the second and fourth quarters. Curry made 11 of 23 shots and 8 of 14 threes with 6 assists, and in the fourth quarter he moved past Dominique Wilkins into 18th place on the NBA’s career scoring list.
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How it turned
Doncic made five threes in the first quarter, and the Lakers led 38-15 after one. Austin Reaves’ free throws early in the second made it 40-15.
De’Anthony Melton then scored 7 points in a row, Georges Niang and Curry added threes, and a 13-0 burst cut it to 40-28. Golden State won the second quarter 38-15, and Brandin Podziemski’s three with 6.4 seconds left tied it 53-53 at halftime.
The Lakers went back in front in the third quarter. Doncic’s step-back three made it 72-63 with 5:54 left, and Sandro Mamukelashvili’s floater put them up 80-78 with 1:28 to go. From there, the Warriors outscored them 20-1. Podziemski scored 10 points in that stretch, and in the fourth quarter Curry made a pull-up jumper and a step-back three in 37 seconds. Doncic got a technical foul late in the third quarter and Matisse Thybulle got one early in the fourth. Niang’s jumper made it 98-81 with 7:35 left, and the Lakers never got closer than 12 again.
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The numbers
Podziemski had 21 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds and made 4 of 9 threes. Melton scored 16 off the bench on 4-of-6 three-point shooting, Niang had 11 on 3-of-3 from deep, and Draymond Green had 9 assists and 3 steals. The Warriors made 22 of 46 threes, had 31 assists and scored 27 points off 22 Lakers turnovers. They played without Kristaps Porzingis, Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody.
The Lakers’ side
Doncic made 12 of 27 shots, 6 of 16 threes and 7 of 8 free throws, with 7 rebounds and 5 assists. Reaves scored 21 on 9-of-19 shooting but had 8 turnovers. Walker Kessler had 10 points, 13 rebounds and 5 blocks, and Jake LaRavia and Thybulle scored 10 each. Los Angeles made 11 of 39 threes, and its bench of Collin Sexton, Quentin Grimes, Mamukelashvili and Jarred Vanderbilt combined for 7 points on 3-of-15 shooting.
Warriors rookie Yaxel Lendeborg fouled out with 6 points; more on his night and Steve Kerr’s comments here.
What’s next
The Warriors host the LA Clippers on Sunday, November 1, at 8:30 p.m. ET (3:30 a.m. Monday Cairo time). The Lakers host the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, November 1, at 9 p.m. ET (4 a.m. Monday Cairo time).
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