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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Draymond Green and the Golden State Warriors gave his lad an aboriginal 5th day acquisition by allowing the lad to assistance connected the sidelines moving towels, shooting shirts and masks to Warriors players on their bench.
And dada delivered his archetypal triple-double of the play to boot.
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Green notched his franchise-leading 31st vocation triple-double with 16 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists with Draymond Jr. an arsenic large prima arsenic Golden State held disconnected the Sacramento Kings 113-98 connected Monday nighttime successful a matchup of short-handed rivals due to the fact that of COVID protocols.
“You similar that?” Green shared of his postgame chat with young Draymond Jr., oregon “DJ.”
“It was fun, Daddy,” the lad answered earlier his begetter made clear, “We can’t bash it each the time, we tin bash it sometimes.”
Green was thrilled with the accidental for his son, who helium praised for being “well-behaved” and doing conscionable capable portion staying retired of the way.
“This enactment is astonishing to let him … to beryllium determination and help,” Green said. “You miss truthful overmuch doing this occupation and those are the moments wherever it’s each worthy it. For him to person that experience, it’s special. I don’t instrumentality that for granted.”
Stephen Curry had a bully night, too, scoring 30 points arsenic the Warriors celebrated him for the 3-point grounds successful his archetypal location crippled since breaking Ray Allen’s mark.
Curry received a video tribute successful the archetypal 4th with highlights of the two-time MVP mounting the grounds during the Warriors’ 105-96 triumph implicit the Knicks past Tuesday astatine Madison Square Garden. He passed Allen’s 2,973 3s that were tops for 10 years.
Fans jumped to their feet during the first-quarter timeout to springiness the reigning scoring champion a agelong ovation. Curry returned to the court, patted his thorax and waved to admit the emotion and support.
Buddy Hield deed a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:34 remaining successful the 3rd earlier Gary Payton II scored 5 consecutive points, getting a bargain — 1 of his 3 — from Hield connected the mode to a layup and an 84-79 Warriors pb heading into the last 12 minutes.
And the Warriors needed a large 4th fourth to bushed the Kings.
“The seat was great. Every feline who came disconnected the seat played good for us,” manager Steve Kerr said. “Gary was everyplace defensively and connected the boards, 3 steals, doing what Gary does.”
Golden State missed starters Andrew Wiggins and Jordan Poole, with Damion Lee stepping into the starting lineup and rookie seventh wide draught prime Jonathan Kuminga making his 2nd consecutive commencement and 2nd of his vocation earlier his backmost tightened up and helium was constricted to six minutes.
Lee made his archetypal six shots and finished 7 of 8 for 18 points with 4 3-pointers.
Tyrese Haliburton had 24 points and 11 assists to pb Sacramento, which was down six players positive interim caput manager Alvin Gentry. Assistant Doug Christie stepped successful arsenic acting coach.
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Harrison Barnes scored 19 points against his erstwhile Warriors team, and Hield coiled up with 18.
STAYING SAFE
Rick Celebrini, Warriors Vice President of Player Health and Performance, met with the squad earlier the crippled with reminders astir being vigilant to enactment harmless fixed the caller coronavirus breakouts.
“It’s nerve-racking for everybody,” Kerr said. “Rick Celebrini conscionable addressed the guys successful our walkthrough astir the value of conscionable being arsenic astute arsenic imaginable and wearing masks arsenic often arsenic we tin and doing each the things that are recommended. It’s pugnacious to beryllium backmost successful this state, but pugnacious for everybody each implicit the world.”
EQUIPMENT KID
Green’s adorable 4-year-old lad got to enactment arsenic helper to longtime Warriors instrumentality guru, manager of squad operations Eric Housen.
“Little Dray DJ, contiguous helium was amazing, made a mates large plays successful the 2nd half,” Payton said.
The lad handed Curry his disguise during the 2nd 4th and ran to assistance whenever needed, folding towels and shooting shirts nether Housen’s guidance. “DJ” adjacent got a pep speech and immoderate acknowledgment from subordinate caput manager Mike Brown, past a timeout creation with Juan Toscano-Anderson midway done the fourth.
“DJ was truly solid, his hustle up and down the sidelines was precise impressive,” Kerr said. “He’s got a batch to learn, though, he’s a young guy. We’ve conscionable got to springiness him much reps.”
TIP-INS
Kings: Joining Gentry successful the wellness and information protocols are Marvin Bagley III, Davion Mitchell Terence Davis, Alex Len and De’Aaron Fox. … Richaun Holmes besides missed his seventh consecutive crippled with a close oculus injury. … Christie ran 15 sets of arena stairs earlier the game.
Warriors: Golden State is 30-1 erstwhile Green gets a triple-double. … Kerr was named U.S. manager for the 2024 Paris Olympics and was presented with a Kerr No. 24 jersey earlier the crippled by Grant Hill. … Andre Iguodala reached 5,000 vocation tract goals. … Otto Porter Jr. had a career-best 4 blocks but thought helium had 5 “clean.” … Golden State improved to a league-best 15-2 astatine home.
UP NEXT
Kings: Host the Clippers connected Wednesday nighttime having won the archetypal 2 matchups this season.
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Warriors: Host Memphis connected Thursday nighttime having mislaid 104-101 successful overtime successful the archetypal gathering of the play successful San Francisco connected Oct. 28.
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