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It was easy to feel hopeless about the Golden State Warriors after the first three games of the season. There were injuries, blowouts, massive choke jobs, and a feud between a confident rookie and a massively-talented, massively-whiny superstar. Monday night in Denver, everything clicked for the Warriors and their confident rookie delivered against one of the Western Conference’s allegedly elite teams.
Yaxel Lendeborg was the star of the show with 31 points, 12 rebounds, and six assists in the Warriors’ 134-114 road win over the Denver Nuggets. While the Nuggets understandably keyed on Steph Curry early, Lendeborg confidently ran the offense, scored in the paint, disrupted the Nuggets’ offense and drew fouls like a veteran, going 12-for-13 from the foul line.
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Speaking of veterans, the Warriors showed they have a pretty solid rotation when their vets are available. Coach Steve Kerr leaned heavily on his reserves off the bench, and got rewarded by some very nice performances. Al Horford scored 11 points in 19 minutes and was a perfect 3-for-3 from distance.
The Warriors social media team was clearly sucking up to Will Richard with that caption.
Georges Niang also sank three triples and De’Anthony Melton overcame a tough shooting game (1-for-6) to finish +1 with four rebounds and three assists, including an excellent alley-oop to Lendeborg which may have broken the Nuggets’ spirits for good.
It was a very unique Curry game, who was content to pass out of double teams and facilitate for his teammates early. Curry took exactly one shot in the first half, and made it. More accurately, he made his first shot on a play where he was fouled before/while sinking a reverse layup, yet inexplicably didn’t get the continuation on it. Instead, the Warriors got a side-out, and Curry defiantly responded by sinking a three-pointer.
Most players hit big shots to shove it the face of their opponents. Curry delivered a three-point middle finger to the referees.
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Then, in the third quarter, with the Nuggets defense perhaps lulled to sleep by Curry’s quiet first half, the Chef went off for 17 points, shooting…
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Publish date : 2026-10-27 06:05:00
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