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Friday, December 30, 2016
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OAKLAND – Kevin Durant had 22 points, matching his season best with 17 rebounds, seven assists and a career high-tying six blocks, as the Golden State Warriors held off the Toronto Raptors, 121-111, on Wednesday night.
Stephen Curry added 28 points, seven assists and seven rebounds, as Klay Thompson scored 21 points for Golden State, which showed that if you make these Warriors a little mad one game, they might just play far better the next.
Upset with themselves for blowing a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter to lose, 109-108, at Cleveland in an NBA Finals rematch on Christmas Day, they took it out on Toronto three days later.
DeMar DeRozan scored 29 points and became Toronto’s career scoring leader (10,290), passing Chris Bosh’s 10,275 points, but the Raptors had their franchise-record, seven-game road winning streak snapped.
Curry, Durant and Thompson scored 20 or more points each in the same game for the 11th time.
Golden State has now gone 119 straight regular-season games without losing back-to-back contests since April 2015 and has won 15 in a row after a defeat, going 5-0 this season.
Andre Iguodala scored in double figures off the bench for the seventh time this season with 11 points, making all five of his shots.
Golden State made nine of its first 10 shots with a pair of 3s by Thompson, a long 28-footer by Curry and another from Durant to jump to a 22-4 lead. (AP)
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