San Francisco – – Aaron Gordon scored 38 factors of the season, Russell Westbrook struck a 3 -point essential pointer and delivered a triple -double, and Denver’s Nuggets and not using a lacking violation their two important stars beat the Golden State Warriors 114-105 Monday night.
Westbrook contributed 12 factors, a summit of 16 assists and 12 rebounds.
Jimmy Butler collected 23 factors, eight rebounds and 6 assists whereas the Warriors had their sequence of seven consecutive victories break. Golden State fell to 14-3 since Butler made his debut on February 8 and 14 within the matches he performed.
Stephen Curry collected 20 factors and 7 assists and Draymond Inexperienced grew to become the sixth participant within the historical past of the Warriors franchise to achieve 6,000 profession rebounds.
Michael Porter Jr. collected 21 factors, 10 rebounds and 5 assists for Denver, enjoying with out the nice man Nikola Jokic due to a bruised proper elbow and an influence of the left ankle and Jamal Murray sidelined by a straight ankle.
Nuggets: Denver has a 12-8 sheet on the street towards the Western Convention and 21-14 in whole.
Warriors: G Brandin Podziemski missed his fifth consecutive match with a pressure from the decrease again, however is predicted to return Tuesday night towards Milwaukee.
A number of moments after Gary Payton II scored on a butler’s move, Payton stole the ball at Jalen Pickett and located Butler for an alley dunk at 11:23 within the second quarter – and Butler scored a lay -up the subsequent time after Payton’s rebound.
Golden State pulled 1 for 8 lengthy -term within the first quarter – Curry making the one 3 – and missed 13 of its first 14 to be late earlier than Curry connects twice. The Warriors completed 8 for 33 of Deep.
Denver will play the second of his 4 -game street journey to the Lakers on Wednesday whereas the Warriors will proceed their seven sport home all season towards the Bucks on Tuesday night.
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