(Basketball news) The New York Knicks got a massive win over the Golden State Warriors as they won 132-94. For the Warriors, Immanuel Quickley scored 22 points as Jalen Brunson had 21 points while Julius Randle finished with 15 points and 12 rebounds, Mitchell Robinson had nine points and 11 rebounds and Miles McBride added 10 points. For the Warriors, Jordan Poole scored 26 points as they were without Stephen Curry, Andrew Wiggins and other key players. Jonathan Kuminga had 13, while Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and Ty Jerome each had 11. With this result the Knicks improved their record to 18-13 as they moved up to 6th in the Eastern Conference standings.
”No one has talked about the streak at all,” Brunson said. ”Obviously, we tell each other to keep it rolling. But, we’re just trying to be the best team we can be and just focus on one day at a time.”
”We have a lot of players on this team who are capable of having monster games,” Brunson said. ”It’s not surprising when someone like Quick' plays that way orQ’ having that type of game or even Deuce (McBride) getting double figures. When they do it, it’s definitely a plus.”
”Winning naturally gains confidence,” Randle said. ”But, I’m not going to put much into a winning streak or whatever. It’s still December.”
”The Knicks are in a good groove right now. They totally outplayed us,” said Warriors coach Steve Kerr. ”We sank tonight. We’re trying to hang in there and we will. Another game tomorrow.”
The Denver Nuggets beat the Western Conference league leaders Memphis Grizzlies 105-91. For the Nuggets, Nikola Jokic had 13 points, 13 rebounds and 13 assists for his second straight triple-double as he got his sixth triple-double of the season and 82nd of his career. He joined Wilt Chamberlain as the only players to put up those stats in a single game. Aaron Gordon had 24 points and Bruce Brown scored 16 points while rookie Christian Braun scored 13 points in his first start of his career. For the Grizzlies, Ja Morant led the scoring with 35 points and 10 assists. The Grizzlies are now tied with the Nuggets in the standings, have lost two in a row following a seven-game winning streak.
”It doesn’t change much. You just got to be ready for the plays out of the huddle, but it didn’t change anything,” Braun said. ”Same mindset, I have come in to the same exact thing. So it’s pretty easy.”
”I thought I was doing a good job on Ja and I looked up in the third quarter and he had 30,” Braun said.
”You’re playing for first place in the Western Conference — meaningless in the middle of December – but that’s what we’re playing for tonight,” Denver coach Michael Malone said. ”That team is a top five in offensive and defense, so we’re going to have to bring our A game tonight. And I felt that Bruce, Christian, (Kentavious Caldwell-Pope), Aaron and Nikola did that.”
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