{"id":544315,"date":"2026-01-18T07:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/544315\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:28:29","slug":"warriors-136-116-hornets-18-jan-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/544315\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors 136-116 Hornets (18 Jan, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; \u2014 De\u2019Anthony Melton scored 24 points as Golden State had eight players reach double figures in the Warriors\u2019 136-116 victory over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cha\/charlotte-hornets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>              The Warriors hit 23 of their 52 3-point attempts and 10 Golden State players made at least one 3. Golden State now has had at least 10 players make at least one 3-pointer in three straight games, the longest streak in NBA history, per the Elias Sports Bureau. The 3-point arc was introduced for the 1979-80 season. <\/p>\n<p>              Golden State extended its winning streak to three games and improved to 5-1 on its eight-game homestand.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6589\/draymond-green\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Draymond Green<\/a> scored 20 points for the Warriors, who got 16 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4709138\/brandin-podziemski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandin Podziemski<\/a> and 14 apiece from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3975\/stephen-curry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Curry<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2990984\/buddy-hield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buddy Hield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>              The Hornets\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433287\/brandon-miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Miller<\/a> scored a game-high 28 points and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5061575\/kon-knueppel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kon Knueppel<\/a> had 24.<\/p>\n<p>              Charlotte was down by a dozen at halftime, then cut its deficit to 82-79 on a layup by Knueppel midway through the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>              Golden State responded with a 20-5 run capped by a Hield 3-pointer from the right corner to go up 102-84 with 2:27 left in the period.<\/p>\n<p>              The Warriors led by as many as 15 in the first half after Podziemski hit a 3-pointer with three seconds left in the second quarter to make it 69-54.<\/p>\n<p>              Miller then connected on a 62-footer to beat the buzzer and the Hornets trailed 69-57 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>              Golden State went 13 for 26 from beyond the arc in the opening half, even with Curry 0 for 2.<\/p>\n<p>              Warriors rookie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4897262\/will-richard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Richard<\/a> started in place of Jimmy Butler, who missed the game for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              The Hornets play at Denver on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>              The Warriors host Miami on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; \u2014 De\u2019Anthony Melton scored 24 points as Golden State had eight players reach double figures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,685,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-544315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-hornets","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115914926060261746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544315","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=544315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}