An 0-3 start, then seven wins
Golden State began the season 0-3. Since then it hasn’t lost. The Warriors have won seven straight, and tonight in San Francisco they try for an eighth against the New Orleans Pelicans, the last game of a six-game homestand.
That would be new territory. The last team to open 0-3 and then win seven in a row was the 1950-51 Boston Celtics, in Red Auerbach’s first year as coach. No NBA team has ever started 0-3 and then won eight straight.
The seventh win was the ugly one. Orlando pushed the Warriors to overtime on Saturday before Golden State pulled away 126-119.
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Curry at 38
Stephen Curry scored 41 against the Magic, his second 40-point game of the season. He is averaging 31.3 points, second in the league behind Luka Doncic of the Lakers at 40.1. Steve Kerr was blunt about the reason after the game: “His fitness level is just off the charts.”
The Pelicans know the feeling. In 40 career games against them, Curry averages 26 points on 48.2% shooting from the field, 45.7% from three and 92.2% at the line.
A tired Pelicans team and a familiar face
New Orleans is finishing a two-game California trip. It lost 139-123 to the Clippers on Sunday, a team that had won once in its first eight games, even though the Pelicans shot 50.6% from the field. The Clippers hit 54.8%.
Jordan Poole could return to a floor he knows. He played his first four seasons for Golden State before the 2023 trade that sent him to Washington. He is in the last year of his deal in New Orleans and has not started this season, with new coach Jamahl Mosley putting defense first. Poole hasn’t left the bench in New Orleans’ last two games, after a three-game absence with a sprained left ankle.
Dejounte Murray and Jeremiah Fears are the Pelicans’ regular starting guards. Fears scored 25 against the Clippers and averages 15.8 points.
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