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Thompson’s season-best 54 leads Warriors past Hawks in 2OT
SAN FRANCISCO — (AP) — Kevon Looney rushed his first strive, not realizing he had a little bit time. Then he tipped within the game-winner as the ultimate buzzer of the second time beyond regulation sounded. He acquired swarmed in celebration.
The sturdy large man who performed each recreation final season and all of them to date on this one delivered a career-high 21 rebounds with two within the ultimate 2 seconds, Klay Thompson scored a season-best 54 factors, and the Golden State Warriors held off the Atlanta Hawks 143-141 on Monday evening.
Looney laughed when requested if he had ever scored the game-winning basket — “not a walkoff game-winner.”
“I rushed the primary one I did not suppose I had that a lot time, however I noticed I had extra time so I took my time on the second and I used to be in a position to make it,” Looney stated.
Trae Younger tied the rating on a floating layup with 8.2 seconds remaining earlier than the Warriors’ ultimate probability. Younger made 4 essential free throws late within the first OT and completed with 30 factors and 14 assists.
Looney additionally had 14 factors and 5 assists. Draymond Inexperienced made his solely 3-point try of the sport with 43.8 seconds left within the final OT and completed with 13 rebounds and 11 assists.
Thompson shot 21 for 39 and his 10 3-pointers matched a season excessive — and his 54 have been six off his career-best scoring outing of 60 achieved in three quarters on Dec. 5, 2016.
“He simply made shot after shot and play after play, he was unimaginable,” coach Steve Kerr stated.
Thompson hit a go-ahead 3 with 18 seconds left within the first time beyond regulation after his tying 3 with 1:55 to go within the preliminary further interval.
Thompson lately started ignoring social media, slowing issues all the way down to be extra affected person and has discovered his kind from again in 2019 earlier than surgical procedures on his left knee and proper Achilles that sidelined him greater than 2 1/2 years.
He’s nearing the primary anniversary of his return to the courtroom, on Jan. 9.
“It is higher than good, wonderful,” he stated. “These moments the place you have got the ball with the sport on the road down the stretch and your teammates belief you, these are what you actually dwell for as a competitor, as a basketball participant. It was laborious to see these at instances in the course of the rehab course of.”
Donte DiVincenzo corralled a vital offensive rebound then knocked down a tying 3-pointer with 0.6 seconds remaining in regulation to ship the sport into OT after Thompson and Jordan Poole had every missed from lengthy vary the identical sequence.
The undermanned defending champions run their season-best successful streak to 5 video games with a sixth straight residence victory.
Reigning NBA Finals MVP Stephen Curry danced in delight at consequence after lacking his ninth straight recreation with {a partially} dislocated left shoulder.
Poole’s 3 put Golden State forward 129-126 with 1:35 left within the first OT. He completed with 28 factors, six rebounds and 5 assists coming off a 40-point efficiency in a 118-112 win in opposition to Portland on Friday evening.
John Collins scored 21 of his 25 factors after halftime and dished out 13 assists because the Hawks roared again after trailing by as many as 21 within the first half. Dejounte Murray additionally scored 25 to go along with 10 rebounds and 7 assists.
All 5 Atlanta starters scored in double figures and 6 gamers in all, together with Bogdan Bogdanovic’s 21 off the bench.
De’Andre Hunter returned from a three-game absence with a sprained left ankle to scored 17 factors for the Hawks, who misplaced their fourth straight. Atlanta rallied within the third to tie the sport at 95 heading into the fourth.
Golden State is 17-2 at Chase Middle and 5-0 on its present eight-game homestand that matches the longest in franchise historical past.
INJURED WARRIORS
Jonathan Kuminga joined the harm report with a sprained proper foot that swelled up after Friday’s recreation. He’s utilizing a strolling boot.
Middle James Wiseman sat out a second straight recreation after he rolled his left ankle throughout a 3-on-3 scrimmage following the morning shootaround Friday.
All-Star Andrew Wiggins missed his 14th recreation, coping with an sickness once more that got here on the heels of being sidelined by tightness in his proper higher leg.
JaMychal Inexperienced is out of the league well being and security protocols however now coping with an an infection in his decrease proper leg.
TIP-INS
Hawks: Atlanta shot 2 of 16 from deep within the first half to fall behind 70-53. … C Clint Capela sat out for the seventh time in eight video games with a bruised proper calf. … The Hawks are 0-3 on the highway vs. the Western Convention.
Warriors: Veteran Andre Iguodala, but to play in a recreation this season, scrimmaged with the G League squad earlier within the day at Chase Middle.
UP NEXT
Hawks: At Sacramento on Wednesday evening.
Warriors: Host Detroit on Wednesday evening.
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