With Stephen Curry back on the floor after missing the last three games with a peroneal strain, the Golden State Warriors continued their hot start to the 2024-25 NBA season, improving to 6-1 with a 125-112 win over the Washington Wizards on Monday night.
Despite playing on a hard minutes restriction, Curry led the team in scoring for the first time this season, posting 24 points in 24 minutes, hitting seven of 15 shots overall and four of nine from beyond the arc. Despite not starting the second half, the two-time NBA MVP scored 13 of his 24 in the third quarter on 5-for-7 shooting
Draymond Green kicked in 18 points, hitting double digits for the third straight game, also adding eight rebounds, five assists, and a block. As he tends to do, Green also added a little extra entertainment as he got into it a bit with former Warrior Jordan Poole, who, of course, was the recipient of his infamous punch a few years back.
Also hitting double digits from the starting five — the fifth unique starting five in the last five games, by the way — was Trayce Jackson-Davis, who hit six of 11 shots en route to 12 points. The second-year lefty continues to impress, and while his shooting percentage actually dropped in this game, he’s still connected on 73.2% of his field-goal attempts thus far, good for second in the league behind only Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren (85.7 percent).
As per usual, the Warriors’ bench was fantastic, which we’ll get to in more detail in just a moment, as the reserves helped make some more franchise history. But we’ll kick things off with a little more on Curry.
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