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Add it to the list.This one looked different.Stephen Curry didn’t erupt for 54 points at the Garden like he did in 2013.
He didn’t pour in 31, either, like he did last year.But after Mikal Bridges’ suffocating defense limited him to just eight points in the first half, Curry erupted for 14 in the third quarter and a dagger of a 3-pointer in the fourth — and the result ended up being the same.Behind Curry’s 28 points and the Knicks offense going ice cold in crunch time, the Warriors pulled away for a 114-102 victory on Tuesday to snap the Knicks’ three-game winning streak.
OG Anunoby poured in 29 points for one of his better offensive games of the season and Jalen Brunson added 25, but without Karl-Anthony Towns (personal reasons), the Knicks faltered with only three players reaching double-digits and left for a five-game West Coast trip on a sour note.For at least the opening 24 minutes, though, it appeared as if all the Knicks needed was Bridges on their roster to stop Curry, because with their offseason acquisition — the one who required four first-round picks and has been criticized recently during his seesawing season — swarming Curry, the Golden State superstar managed just eight points on 3-for-10 shooting.Bridges made Curry work to create space, and that forced the Warriors to search for secondary scoring options.Curry almost didn’t play against the Knicks either, with a sore left ankle from their game Monday in Charlotte causing him to pop up as questionable on the injury report — and forcing his status to remain unclear until after warmups.
But as Warriors head coach Steve Kerr hinted at during his pregame press conference, this game on this stage happens once a year.It’s Curry.
It’s the Garden.It’s the heartbreak of basketball with one of the stars of the sport.
There was no way he’d miss it.And at the start of the third quarter, he started to show why.He hit two free throws and made two consecutive baskets to give the War...