Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry felt the highest of highs leading his team to an NBA championship over the Boston Celtics two years ago. On Sunday night, the emotional pendulum swung in the other direction.
Curry’s Warriors got thumped by the Celtics, 140–88, at TD Garden in Golden State’s fourth-worst blowout in franchise history. On a night when Curry went ice-cold from deep, going 0-for-9 on three-pointers, the Warriors saw their midseason momentum come to a screeching halt.
After the 52-point defeat, Curry had an incredibly blunt reaction to how the game played out.
“That’s what we used to do to teams,” Curry told Celtics reporter Bob Manning.
Steph Curry: “That’s what we used to do to teams.”
— Bobby Manning (@RealBobManning) March 3, 2024
Emphasis on “used to.”
During the Warriors’ dynastic years, the offensively stacked team that soared to a record-setting 73-win season and reached five consecutive NBA Finals from 2015 to 2019 was certainly capable of blowing out teams week after week.
Against the top-seeded Celtics this year, however, Golden State found no such success.
Curry went 2-for-13 from the field and recorded four points, three assists and one rebound in 17 minutes as he and the rest of the Warriors’ starters were pulled in the third quarter. The Celtics had built up a 44-point lead by the half thanks to the unstoppable offensive duo of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, who finished with 27 and 29 points apiece.
The Warriors (32–28) will look to bounce back against the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday.
