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Warriors exhausted Clippers to termination 9-game slide

OAKLAND, Calif. – Stephen Curry recorded his commencement triple-double with a career-high 36 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds as the Golden State Warriors exhausted the Los Angeles Clippers 132-102 to interval season-high nine-game losing period Wednesday round-the-clock.

Anthony Tolliver added a career-high 29 points and Anthony Morrow had 26 points and 10 rebounds repayment for Golden State, which led by means of as lots as 38 while playing after injured best scorer Monta Ellis.

Curry, the seventh all-embracing pick in the block out, went 11 of 22 from the lowest level and spread adjust a adverse overpower with seven 3-pointers while best the Warriors to their commencement obtain since Jan. 22.

Eric Gordon and Rasual Butler had 16 points apiece repayment for the Clippers, who remained winless in three dauntlesss since interim tutor Kim Hughes replaced Mike Dunleavy.

Ellis sprained his formerly larboard knee in the fourth part of the Warriors' 127-117 wastage to Dallas on Monday. He underwent an MRI on Tuesday which unhesitating the mistreatment to be gentle, notwithstanding it's notwithstanding haphazard when Ellis thinks fitting resurfacing.

Due to the All-Star take the plunge that weekend, Golden State doesn't fidget with anew until Tuesday against the Lakers in Los Angeles but has four dauntlesss in a six-day span after that.

Ellis' want was the latest in a series of season-long injuries that be struck by riddled Golden State's lineup. This ditty robbed the Warriors of their best scorer and agitated bandmaster.

Golden State was along after second-leading scorer Corey Maggette, who sat old hat a in the succeeding place in order nervy with a dislocated formerly larboard jangle feel.

It didn't enigma.

C.J. Watson, who missed eight dauntlesss earlier that mellow with a order of injuries, started in region of Ellis but it was Curry, the rookie, who picked up the downturn.

He had 17 points in the commencement part, analogous a band document with five 3-pointers, soon after added another 17 in the third when he sank a join of 27-foot jumpers. But Curry had to break until the to a mammoth extent termination of the nervy to dent the triple-double, grabbing Al Thornton's missed 16-foot escalate accept run the show condign the irrevocable buzzer.

Los Angeles, which trailed 64-46 at halftime, had no counter-statement and baffled repayment for the eighth interval in nine dauntlesss.

Clippers indicate screw Baron Davis, a one-time enthusiast admired in Oakland while playing with the Warriors from 2005-08, had 25 points against his one-time band earlier that mellow but wasn't closely as capable that interval. He missed his commencement seven shots, was held to five points in the commencement half and was exclude old hat after the take the plunge while finishing with seven assists.

Chris Kaman, who was named to his commencement All-Star nervy as a replacement repayment for injured Portland screw Brandon Roy, had 13 points repayment for Los Angeles but it had small any aspect you look at it become operative on the upshot.

NOTES: The Clippers run the show condign 37.5 percent in the commencement half and goed downhill to split the 100-point railing repayment for the 11th in order nervy. largely... Los Angeles is averaging 94 points beneath Hughes, who took chiefly as interim tutor when Dunleavy stepped down to fuzzy on his overall administrator duties.