After a hard fought and well played three quarters the San Antonio Spurs floundered in the final frame to begin their three-game West Coast road trip losing to the defending champions Golden State Warriors; 130-115.
The road team did get off to a fast start (9-2 lead) in the opening minutes thanks to sloppy Warriors turnovers leading to easy points on the other end. Malaki Branham who is finishing his rookie campaign strongly started this game constantly cutting through the paint and getting open layups at the rim. The lid seemed to be on both buckets early on as neither team was having much success from outside the arc with the Warriors going 0-10 in the first 12 minutes with the Spurs not doing much better starting 2-10 from three.