Stephen Curry scored 26 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 111-85 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday, his latest NBA milestone overshadowed by upheaval in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
Curry<\/a>, the league’s all-time leading three-point scorer, climbed into a tie with Paul Pierce<\/a> for 19th on the career scoring list as he finished the game with 26,397.<\/p>\n A game-time decision to play because of knee soreness, Curry didn’t have his best-shooting night, connecting on just 7-of-18 attempts<\/a>.<\/p>\n But he made all nine of his free throws and added seven assists and four of the Warriors<\/a>‘ 20 steals as Golden State led most of the way in a game postponed from Saturday after federal agents shot and killed US citizen\u00a0Alex Pretti<\/a> amid the ongoing mass immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n Pretti’s death came less than three weeks after an immigration officer in the Midwestern city shot and killed Renee Good.<\/p>\n “You definitely felt the weight of the city,” said Golden State forward Moses Moody<\/a>, who scored 19 points with eight rebounds and two blocked shots. “I couldn’t imagine too many different times where that large amount of people are together in the midst of a situation like this, so you definitely felt that.”<\/p>\n Anthony Edwards<\/a> scored 32 points and pulled down 11 rebounds to lead the Timberwolves<\/a>, who lost their fifth straight.<\/p>\n Golden State coach Steve Kerr said he felt the home team were “suffering.”<\/p>\n “I thought the vibe in the stands, it was one of the most bizarre, sad games I’ve ever been part of,” Kerr said of a contest that opened with a moment of silence to honor Pretti and saw fans calling for the exit of federal immigration officials from their city.<\/p>\n Around the league<\/p>\n The Toronto Raptors<\/a>, fueled by 23 points and 11 rebounds from Immanuel Quickley<\/a>, handed the league-leading Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> a second straight defeat, 101-99<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a tight fourth quarter, Quickley’s back-to-back three-pointers gave Toronto a 101-97 lead with 1:16 remaining, and the Raptors hung on for a fourth straight win.<\/p>\n Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 24 points but was limited to just three in the final quarter for the Thunder, who still own the best record in the league at 37-10.<\/p>\n Zion Williamson<\/a> and Saddiq Bey<\/a> scored 24 points apiece as the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> upended the Spurs 104-95<\/a> in San Antonio<\/a>.<\/p>\n Victor Wembanyama<\/a> scored 16 points to lead the Spurs, who trailed by as many as 20 and erased a 14-point deficit entering the fourth quarter to edge ahead by five, but couldn’t hang on.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, the historic winter storm pounding the United States saw two games cancelled – the\u00a0Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>‘ home game against the Denver Nuggets<\/a>, and the Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>‘ game against the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n The Mavs, unable to depart as scheduled after their home loss to the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Saturday night, tried again on Sunday, but after hours at the airport, they were unable to depart and the game was called off.<\/p>\n Cade Cunningham<\/a> scored 29 points and handed out 11 assists for the Eastern Conference-leading Pistons<\/a> in a 139-116<\/a> rout of the Sacramento Kings<\/a> in Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Curry scored 26 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 111-85 victory over the Minnesota…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-438224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}