Steph Curry and Draymond Inexperienced have been out for the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night time. However after they play the Houston Rockets, it would not appear to matter who’s on the court docket.
Jonathan Kuminga scored a career-high 33 factors, main the Warriors to their fifteenth straight win over the Houston Rockets, 99-93. The Warriors snapped a five-game dropping streak and prolonged their dominance over their Texas rivals, who have not overwhelmed them since Feb. 2020.
The Rockets have had their possibilities. Final month, they performed a Warriors workforce lacking Curry. Houston got here again from 31 factors all the way down to drive time beyond regulation, just for Kuminga to attain six factors within the further interval to down them, 127-121. On Jan. 21 2022, Curry sealed the win over the Rockets with a buzzer-beater.
It isn’t simply the present profitable streak. The Warriors additionally beat the Rockets within the playoffs 4 occasions between 2015 and 2019, going 16-7 in opposition to James Harden’s workforce. They even beat them in a Christmas Day recreation in 2019, with Curry injured and Klay Thompson out for the season, in a 12 months Golden State went 15-50.
The loss needed to sting Dillon Brooks most of all, since he is feuded with Draymond Green and the Warriors for years as a member of the Memphis Grizzlies, whom the Warriors additionally beat within the playoffs. Kuminga hit the game-sealing layup with Brooks futilely making an attempt to defend him.
However whereas the loss will sting, the Rockets will get one other crack on the Warriors very quickly. The 2 groups will meet Tuesday in Houston within the quarterfinals of the NBA Cup, the place the Rockets will lastly get one other likelihood to knock the Warriors out of a playoff.
