This game didn't fill me with confidence. It took them so long to put
away a terrible team. [Sigh] -AL

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Warriors rally past Spurs with fourth-quarter surge
Stephen Curry scored 33 points, Klay Thompson had 31 and Jordan Poole
added another 27 off the bench to lead Golden State to its fifth win in
six games.

>Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry drives on San Antonio Spurs’
Dominick Barlow in the second quarter at Chase Center in San Francisco,
Calif., Friday, March 31, 2023. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
By MADELINE KENNEY | mkenney@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: March 31, 2023 at 9:30 p.m. | UPDATED: March 31, 2023 at 9:30
p.m.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/03/31/warriors-rally-past-spurs-with-fourth-quarter-surge/

SAN FRANCISCO — Two days after overcoming a 20-point deficit to stun the
New Orleans Pelicans, the Warriors faltered early again Friday night,
but overcame the slow, sloppy start against the San Antonio Spurs to
pull out a 130-115 victory.

Stephen Curry scored 33 points, Klay Thompson had 31 and Jordan Poole
added another 27 off the bench to lead Golden State to its fifth win in
six games.

The Spurs’ fate has already been decided. They join the Houston Rockets
and Detroit Pistons as having the best lottery odds to land the No. 1
overall pick of the upcoming draft and presumably French phenomen Victor
Wembanyama.

But Friday was still a high-stakes game for the Warriors, who are trying
to maintain their spot outside the play-in tournament in the Western
Conference standings.

The Warriors turned the ball over five times in the first five minutes
of the game, and the Spurs jumped ahead by as many as nine points in the
opening quarter. San Antonio led for most of the second quarter, too,
before a late 12-point burst by Jordan Poole and a Kevon Looney dunk
helped the Warriors see a three-point advantage at the break.

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There was a scary moment during that run, where Draymond Green appeared
to injure his right knee after colliding with Spurs guard Tre Jones.
Green went to the locker room before the second quarter ended but was
good to go to start the third. He finished the game with four points, 11
assists and six rebounds in 29 minutes.

After the Spurs tied the game at 90 with 10:51 left in the fourth, Curry
and Poole led the Warriors on an 8-0 surge over the next minute and 10
seconds.

Golden State kept the Spurs at bay from there, putting the game away
outscoring San Antonio 32-25 over the final 9:40.

Thompson scored 27 points in the second half.

The Warriors remain in sixth place in the Western Conference standings.
They have the same record (41-37) as the fifth-seeded Clippers, though
Los Angeles currently wins the tiebreaker by having a better division
record.

The Warriors will travel to Denver to play the West-leading Nuggets on
Sunday before returning home to host the Oklahoma City Thunder on
Tuesday for their final home game of the regular season.

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Madeline Kenney | Warriors reporter
Madeline Kenney is the Bay Area News Group's Golden State Warriors beat
reporter for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. A Nebraska native, she
is graduate of Loyola University of Chicago. She holds a Bachelor in
Communication degree, with a major in broadcast journalism and minors in
sports management and marketing, and is a friend of Sister Jean, the
103-year-old nun who became famous during the Ramblers’ 2018 run to the
Final Four, Madeline previously worked for the Chicago Sun-Times
covering everything from sports to crime and politics. When she’s not
working, she enjoys trying new restaurants and exploring the great outdoors.