{"id":480397,"date":"2024-03-17T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480397"},"modified":"2024-03-17T02:09:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T06:09:00","slug":"currys-31-leads-warriors-to-128-121-win-over-lakers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/currys-31-leads-warriors-to-128-121-win-over-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry&#8217;s 31 leads Warriors to 128-121 win over Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\">Stephen Curry<\/a><\/a> made a triumphant return after missing three games due to injury, scoring 31 points, while Klay Thompson contributed 26 points as the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\">Golden State Warriors<\/a><\/a> secured a 128-121 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a><\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The win propelled the Warriors (35-31) slightly ahead of the Lakers (36-32) in the Western Conference standings, with both teams vying for spots in the play-in tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Despite facing a Lakers team led by LeBron James, who scored 40 points, and D&#8217;Angelo Russell, who added 23 points and 13 assists, the Warriors held their ground. The Lakers suffered a setback when Anthony Davis exited the game early due to a left eye injury.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State capitalized on Davis&#8217; absence, with Thompson leading the charge with 21 first-half points off the bench. Curry continued to shine in the third quarter, scoring 13 points to help the Warriors build a nine-point lead heading into the final frame.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Lakers mounted a comeback in the fourth quarter, cutting the deficit to four points, the Warriors maintained their composure. Curry and Draymond Green combined for crucial baskets to extend Golden State&#8217;s lead once again.<\/p>\n<p>The game was not without its share of frustrations, as both teams endured several replay delays and shot-clock malfunctions in the closing minutes. However, the Warriors managed to weather the storm, with Curry&#8217;s steal leading to a decisive dunk by Jonathan Kuminga to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Warriors improved their record against the Lakers to 2-1 this season, setting the stage for an eagerly anticipated rematch in April.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aKdgxGJ0cvg?si=MnT9Q5aacPaQJK5p\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Curry made a triumphant return after missing three games due to injury, scoring 31 points, while Klay Thompson contributed 26 points as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":480398,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16989,16970,17114],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17876,17645,17875],"acf":{"announce":"Golden State leader came back after three missed games and showed his importance ","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\/480397"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480400,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480397\/revisions\/480400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480397"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480397"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}