Brooklyn Nets’ Royce O’Neale #00 celebrates a 4th round dunk against the Golden State Warriors at Chase Center on January 22, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Kavin Mistry/Getty Images/AFP
Royce O’Neal buried a 3-pointer lead with 28.5 seconds left, Kyrie Irving edged a 38-point performance with a pair of free-throws 14 seconds later and the Brooklyn Nets beat the Golden State Warriors 120- 116 on Sunday night in San Francisco.
With the win, Brooklyn completed two games of the season series against the Warriors.
Irving won the points duel with Stephen Curry 38-26 and got more help from his teammates as the Nets took their second straight win after the start. the trip lasted 5 matches with consecutive losses.
Kyrie drops 30+ for the 3rd time in the last 4 games when the Nets win at Golden State 🔥
38 points
7 REB
9 AST pic.twitter.com/YTE3KXDfn3– NBA (@NBA) January 23, 2023
Surviving the possible embarrassment of repeatedly intentionally fouling him, Nic Claxton made six of his 15 fouls en route to a 24-point double, 15 rebounds for Brooklyn, the team is playing again without an injured Kevin Durant.
After leading for most of the first half, only to see the Nets held to a draw even in the third half, the Warriors used superior play from their bench to their advantage. 110-98 thanks to Jonathan Kuminga’s position with 5:42 remaining.
However, the Nets dominated the finish by using a nine-point streak including seven from Claxton to reach hand-held length, followed by a 3-pointer Joe Harris to tie 112 all even with the ratio 1:52.
Curry’s two free throws gave the Warriors a final 116-115 lead at 1:12, but O’Neal turned Irving’s ninth assist into the biggest ever. during the night. The star guard then made two of his fouls after Klay Thompson’s three-point attempt to take the lead failed with 20.1 seconds remaining.
O’Neale finished with 16 points, Harris 14 and Seth Curry 12 for the Nets, who had 99 at the start. Another initiator, Ben Simmons, added the highest 11 assists in the game and 7 points to the cause.
The Nets bench scored just 21 points, one more than Kuminga for the Warriors with the four-man reserve team totaling 50 points.
Kevon Looney (14 points) and Donte DiVincenzo (13) also scored twice coming on from the Golden State bench, while starters Jordan Poole and Thompson had 17 and 10 points, respectively.
Looney completed the double with 10 rebounds, while DiVincenzo had the highest eight assists of his teammate.
Draymond Green contributed 9 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists in the loss, which was Golden State’s fourth straight game at home.
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