{"id":505602,"date":"2025-12-13T07:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505602"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:57:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:57:23","slug":"curry-scores-39-in-return-but-golden-state-stumbles","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/curry-scores-39-in-return-but-golden-state-stumbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry scores 39 in return, but Golden State stumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being sidelined for 2 weeks and 5 matches because of a quad problem, Golden State Warriors leader Stephen Curry notched 39 points for only 32 minutes on the court in his return.<\/p>\n<p>But his efforts weren\u2019t enough to secure the victory for his team, which has been struggling since the beginning of the campaign. The Warriors were defeated 127-120 by the Wolves, who played without Anthony Edwards. Golden State allowed 39 points in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter as their record this season now stands at 13-13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t play well enough in defense, and that\u2019s why we lost,\u201d Golden State manager Steve Kerr claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Without Steph, Golden State held 4 of their previous 5 opponents below 100 points and triumphed in 3 of those matches. They had the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>-best defensive rating in the league before the game against Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>But Draymond Green didn\u2019t play for the Warriors this week because of personal issues, and Al Horford is also sidelined with sciatica, leaving Golden State with crucial problems in defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout Green and Horford, we are vulnerable on defense, and when they didn\u2019t play, we must find a way to get it done also,\u201d Curry shared.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HISTORY FOR STEPHEN CURRY IN HIS RETURN!<\/p>\n<p>Tonight marks Steph&#39;s 94th 35-PT game since turning 30&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s now THE MOST IN NBA HISTORY, passing Michael Jordan&#39;s 93 \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/77EzlcCn2D\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/77EzlcCn2D<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VmppiSvs7t\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VmppiSvs7t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1999727855010480288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being sidelined for 2 weeks and 5 matches because of a quad problem, Golden State Warriors leader Stephen Curry notched 39 points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505603,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16989,17114],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17876,17875],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Steph returned with 39 points, but the Warriors still lost.","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\/505602"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505606,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505602\/revisions\/505606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505602"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505602"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}