Royce O’Neal buried a go-ahead 3-pointer with 28.5 seconds remaining, Kyrie Irving capped a 38-point efficiency with a pair of clinching free throws 14 seconds later and the Brooklyn Nets defeated the Golden State Warriors 120-116 on Sunday evening in San Francisco.
With the win, Brooklyn accomplished a two-game sweep of the season sequence towards the Warriors.
Irving gained a scoring duel with Stephen Curry 38-26 and obtained much more assist from his fellow starters because the Nets gained a second straight after starting their five-game journey with back-to-back losses.
Surviving the potential embarrassment of continuous intentional fouling on him, Nic Claxton made six of his 15 foul photographs en path to a 24-point, 15-rebound double-double for Brooklyn, which was enjoying as soon as once more with out an injured Kevin Durant.
After main for many of the first half, solely to see the Nets draw even within the third quarter, the Warriors used superior play from their bench to construct a 110-98 benefit on a Jonathan Kuminga layup with 5:42 remaining.
The Nets dominated the end, nonetheless, utilizing a nine-point burst that featured seven factors from Claxton to get inside arm’s size, then a Joe Harris 3-pointer to drag right into a 112-all tie with 1:52 to go.
Two free throws by Curry gave the Warriors one final lead at 116-115 with 1:12 to go, however O’Neal turned Irving’s ninth help into the most important hoop of the evening. The star guard then hit his two foul photographs after Klay Thompson’s try at a go-ahead 3-pointer was off the mark with 20.1 seconds left.
O’Neale completed with 16 factors, Harris 14 factors and Seth Curry 12 for the Nets, who obtained 99 factors from their starters. Another starter, Ben Simmons, added a game-high 11 assists and 7 factors to the trigger.
The Nets’ bench chipped in with simply 21 factors, which was another than Kuminga had for the Warriors on a four-man reserve crew that totaled 50 factors.
Kevon Looney (14 factors) and Donte DiVincenzo (13) additionally scored in double figures off the Golden State bench, whereas starters Jordan Poole and Thompson had 17 and 10 factors, respectively.
Looney accomplished a double-double with 10 rebounds, whereas DiVincenzo had a team-high eight assists.
Draymond Green contributed 9 factors, 11 rebounds and 7 assists to the loss, which was Golden State’s fourth straight at dwelling.
—Field Level Media/Reuters
