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Stephen Curry walked off the floor in Houston Wednesday night and the Golden State Warriors felt it immediately. The superstar left in the first quarter with right abdominal soreness and never returned, and without him, Golden State watched an eight-game winning streak come to an end. Kevin Durant dropped twenty, Alperen Sengun and Amen Thompson each added nineteen, and the Rockets pulled away one fifteen to one oh eight.
And there was more drama in that building before the final buzzer. Marcus Smart was ejected after throwing a punch at Warriors center Charles Bassey, drawing a flagrant two foul. Smart could be facing further discipline from the league, so that situation is very much still developing.
Shifting to the hardwood in Portland, the Trail Blazers finished off a two-game sweep of Oklahoma City, winning one eighteen to one oh eight. Deni Avdija led Portland with twenty-eight points while Damian Lillard chipped in eighteen. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander put up thirty-one for the Thunder, including twenty-three in the second half, but it wasn't enough to hold off a fourth-quarter collapse.
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