Once upon a time, you could knock Stephen Curry off his game by roughing him up. Those days have long since passed, as the Sacramento Kings discovered on Saturday night. The Kings played Curry aggressively from the opening tip, but the physicality only seemed to motivate the MVP. From the outburst in the second quarter — when Curry scored or assisted every Warriors point scored in the final 6:30 — to the game-ending threes in the fourth, there was a retaliatory feeling to Curry’s dominant 38-point, 11-assist, 6-rebound performance. Curry’s intensity seemed to focus his team, and helped transform a sloppy, risky game into just another offensively-dominant and defensively-oppressive victory.
Push Back (Warriors 128, Kings 116)
