Klay has 36, Steph sits late as Warriors beat Lakers 109-88

Draymond Green became the second Warriors player to post three straight triple-doubles as Golden State rolled to their 35th straight regular-season home win by beating Charlotte 111-101.

Curry said afterward that it could be four weeks until he’s back at 100 percent, but also mentioned that he’s not willing to miss that much time. Of course, he won’t sit out that amount of time to get rid of all the swelling.

“They’ve got a bunch of intelligent players, and the league right now as a whole is not a very intelligent league”, Metta World Peace said. Warriors interim coach Luke Walton, who allowed Curry to stay in while the point guard was hobbling Tuesday night, said he won’t force Curry to sit unless the training staff says he should. Thompson, who hit 6 of 11 3-point tries, has scored at least 20 in seven of his last nine games, and had 18 in one of the others. “I wasn’t going to put him back out there at first, but he was pretty adamant about it”. “I think our players should be excited”, Scott told reporters.

Walton said Curry’s resistance to pain was comparable to Kobe Bryant.

“We played good. We just needed to make some more plays”, Hornets backup Jeremy Lamb guard said.

San Antonio won despite being without starting point guard Tony Parker due to right hip soreness.

Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry watches from the bench during the first half the team’s NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, in Dallas. Coming off a thoroughly dominant year that ended in 67 wins, an MVP Award for Stephen Curry and a championship for the Dubs, the Warriors might be in store for an even greater season this year.

Andre Drummond had 17 points and 12 rebounds while Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 21 points for the Pistons, who were only ahead by three points early in the third quarter before pulling away. His teammates were well aware of the hot hand and made it their mission to feed him the ball. ABOUT THE LAKERS (8-27): Second-year forward Julius Randle has fallen behind rookie Larry Nance Jr.in the pecking order and sulked when being pulled during Sunday’s 97-77 trouncing of the Phoenix Suns.

He drained a 3-pointer in the opening minute on his first shot and scored 14 points in all in the first half as Golden State took a 62-54 lead at the break.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

This may be the suspicious fan in us, but saying that getting his shin kicked aggravates the injury isn’t the sort of thing Curry should do publicly.

And then there’s Thompson, who, while trying to play through a lower back injury at the start of the season, struggled to perform at the All-Star level that everyone knows he’s capable.

– The Warriors were missing Leandro Barbosa (sprained left shoulder) and James Michael McAdoo (sprained left toe).