Through five straight games at Chase Center, the Golden State Warriors have recorded a perfect home stand, winning all five amid their red-hot seven game win streak. With their home stand finale set for Monday against the New Orleans Pelicans before a five-game road swing, the Warriors showed no signs of slowing down.
With New Orleans on the second leg of a back-to-back, the Warriors punished the Pelicans on Monday. The Warriors wasted no time, jumping out to a 15-point lead in the first quarter. With a double-figure lead out the gate, the Warriors never looked back, blitzing the Pelicans on the way to their eighth straight win, and sweeping their early-season home stand.
Six different members of the Warriors scored in double-figures in Golden
State's dominant 138-87 win over the Pelicans. Three of those players tallied 23 or more points. Steph Curry, Brandin Podziemski and Yaxel Lendeborg combined for 73 points on Monday night against the Pelicans.
Coming off a 41-point performance in overtime against the Orlando Magic on Saturday, Curry stayed hot, scoring 25 points on 6-of-10 shooting with four made 3-pointers in only 21 minutes on Monday night.
Podziemski also tallied 25 points on 10-of-19 shooting with five made triples to go along with four assists, two rebounds, a steal and a block in 26 minutes against the Pelicans. Lendeborg notched 23 points on 8-of-10 shooting from the field and a perfected 4-of-4 from beyond the arc. Lendeborg added seven boards, four assists and a steal in 27 minutes on Monday night.
Reserve guard Brandon Williams suffered a hamstring injury and was ruled out for the remainder of the game on Monday night. Williams will undergo an MRI on his injured left hamstring.
The Warriors will now take their eight-game win streak on the road, starting a five-game road swing on Wednesday night against former Warrior Kevin Durant the Houston Rockets.
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