Curry, Green held without field goal; Grizzlies rout Warriors - ESPN
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — By the time Jake LaRavia swished a 3-pointer to give the Grizzlies an eye-popping 123-66 lead early in the fourth quarter Thursday night, the nights for Stephen Curry and Draymond Green had been long over.
The Golden State Warriors had such a brutal and humiliating evening that their two stars didn't even realize they had failed to make a field goal in a game together for the first time in their careers as Memphis rolled to a 144-93 win — the largest in the NBA this season — at FedEx Forum.
The Grizzlies, winners of 11 of their past 13 games, smothered Curry into just two points and 0-for-7 shooting, including 0-for-6 from 3-point range. It was Curry's most field goal attempts and most minutes (24) without a make in his 16-year career.
Green went scoreless, missing all four of his shots in 19 minutes.
«Damn, that happen,» Green said after being told that he and Curry didn't make a field goal in a game together for the first time. «Oh s---. That's crazy… they did a good job. Give them some credit.»
Frustrated by foul trouble, the 13-year veteran was a shocking minus-42 and Curry was a minus-41.
«First time for everything, right?» Curry said. «I never thought that would be a situation or a result of the game. From the very jump they kind of punched us in the mouth. We didn't have an answer.
»… That was kind of embarrassing."
Golden State (14-12) now has lost nine of its past 11 games after a 12-3 start. Three of those losses have come by four points or fewer after the Warriors had difficulty scoring down the stretch. But in this one, they looked overmatched almost from the start.
The Grizzlies opened with a 13-2 lead and kept adding to it. The Warriors trailed by 31 points at the half and then by 46 when