{"id":473915,"date":"2023-12-24T03:43:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T07:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473915"},"modified":"2023-12-24T03:44:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T07:44:19","slug":"warriors-defeat-trail-blazers-126-106-for-5th-consecutive-victory","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/warriors-defeat-trail-blazers-126-106-for-5th-consecutive-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors defeat Trail Blazers 126-106 for 5th consecutive victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> came out on top in their clash against the Portland Trail Blazers in a convincing fashion 126-106 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>It was their fifth consecutive victory as their run continues with full swing after a sluggish start early on in the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Five in a row \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zObEp9Vpnf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zObEp9Vpnf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Golden State Warriors (@warriors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warriors\/status\/1738769426538020872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Klay Thompson stole the spotlight with solid 28 points, followed up closely by <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\">Stephen Curry<\/a>, who notched 27. It was Thompson&#8217;s 5th straight game with 20 or more points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think over the last five games, he\u2019s just taking better shots,\u201d Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. \u201cAnd as a result, our team is more settled. We just feel like we\u2019re operating more efficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The win is a huge boost for Golden State as they head into Christmas on a high note for a crunch match-up against defending NBA champions <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anfernee Simons was the highest scorer for Portland with 25 points as they recorded a disappointing 9th loss in the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  id=\"_ytid_87555\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O0C6yrKx9dY?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/O0C6yrKx9dY\/maxresdefault.jpg\" title=\"\"><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden State Warriors came out on top in their clash against the Portland Trail Blazers in a convincing fashion 126-106 on Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":473916,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16989,17113,16847,17114],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[17876,19151,18063,17875],"acf":{"announce":"The Golden State team is on a roll and continues its fine form","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473919,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473915\/revisions\/473919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473915"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473915"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}