OAKLAND, Calif. — Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf couldn’t have done it better.
Stephen Curry returned to greatness after his Garden dud, slicing the Knicks into a bloody carcass in racking up 34 points in 28 minutes as the Warriors slaughtered the Knicks 121-85 at Oracle Arena in their season’s most lopsided defeat. It was Golden State’s 50th straight regular-season home win dating to last season.
Curry’s masterpiece included him making 12-of-20 shots — including 8-of-13 from 3-point land — and he received no bloody scrape to his forehead as in the initial Garden meeting, when he was held to 13 points.