what became a 144-93 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n\u201cWe ran into a buzz saw,\u201d Curry said. \u201cWe obviously know we are better than that. I\u2019ve got to be better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 51-point final margin and 57-point deficit were both the largest in the NBA this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou lose by 51, that\u2019s humbling,\u201d coach Steve Kerr said after his team, which started the season 12-3, lost for the ninth time in its last 11 games.<\/p>\n
Curry was 0 for 7, missing all six of his tries from 3-point range. It was only the fifth time in Curry\u2019s career that he\u2019d taken a shot in a game and not registered a field goal \u2014 he was 0 for 1 once, 0 for 2 once, 0 for 3 once and 0 for 4 once.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s one of the toughest covers in the history of the NBA,\u201d Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins said.<\/p>\n
Not on Thursday, however.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was embarrassing,\u201d Curry said.<\/p>\n
It was only the fifth time in Warriors history that they lost a regular-season game by more than 50 points. Of those, three have come in the last five years \u2014 by 53 to Toronto at Tampa, Florida in 2021, by 52 at Boston on March 3 and Thursday\u2019s 51-point loss.<\/p>\n
The franchise regular-season record is a 63-point loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in 1972. The Philadelphia Warriors lost by 51 at Boston in 1962.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t any of our nights,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cIncluding mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Curry and Draymond Green had never combined for zero field goals in a game in which both played, until Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a first time for everything, right?\u201d Curry said.<\/p>\n
Brandin Podziemski and Andrew Wiggins combined to make 15 of their 24 shots for Golden State. The rest of the Warriors shot 17 of 66 \u2014 25.8% \u2014 with Dennis Schroder going 2 for 12 in his Golden State debut. Jonathan Kuminga also shot 2 of 12.<\/p>\n
The Warriors have now trailed at least one game by 45 points in each of the last six seasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce we\u2019re all locked in defensively, you see what type of team we can be,\u201d Grizzlies guard Ja Morant said.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies now have the two biggest victory margins in the NBA this season. They beat Portland by 45 on Nov. 10.<\/p>\n
Memphis also led Golden State by 55 in Game 5 of the 2022 Western Conference semifinals, ultimately winning that game by 39 points. The Warriors went on to win that series in six games and eventually won that season\u2019s NBA title.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know who we are. I know what our team is about,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cI know we\u2019ve got competitors, and I know we\u2019re going to bounce back and we\u2019re going to regroup. So, I\u2019m not concerned about that. But we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do to execute and learn how to execute under pressure and take care of the ball and get good shots.\u201d<\/p>\n
___<\/p>\n
AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Stephen Curry had a game like none other in his career. It was part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[500,7,860,579,1024,200,164,294,867,293,177,4070,6,446,66,573,863,4194,575,483],"class_list":{"0":"post-249138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-andrew-wiggins","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brandin-podziemski","11":"tag-ca-state-wire","12":"tag-dennis-schroder","13":"tag-draymond-green","14":"tag-golden-state-warriors","15":"tag-grizzlies","16":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","17":"tag-memphis","18":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","19":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-nba-basketball","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-stephen-curry","24":"tag-steve-kerr","25":"tag-taylor-jenkins","26":"tag-temetrius-morant","27":"tag-tn-state-wire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115086337472290427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}