The Atlanta Hawks suffered a narrow and bitter defeat to the defending NBA champions, the Golden State Warriors, 114-109 at Philips Arena on Friday night.
Kent Bazemore led the Hawks with a career-high 29 points while Dennis Schröder added 27 points — both on very efficient shooting (62% for Bazemore, 47% for Schroder).
(Very quickly since we won’t be talking about him much, shoutout to Dennis for this crazy shot at the end of the third quarter):
For the Warriors, they were led by the combined effort of Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry, who both scored 28 points (Curry’s 28 coming in less than three quarters after he tweaked his right ankle, preventing him to return to the game).