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Lou Williams had 22 points to lead five
Clippers with 16 or more as the visitors built upon a
season-opening victory over the Los Angeles Lakers with a
blowout win in which they never trailed.
The Warriors' Stephen Curry was the game's leading scorer with
23 points.
Playing a regular-season game in San Francisco for the first
time since 1971, the Warriors watched as Clippers center Ivica
Zubac scored the first five points in Chase Center
regular-season history and Patrick Patterson added a pair of
3-pointers in the game-opening, 14-0 flurry.
Warriors newcomer D'Angelo Russell ended his team's
season-opening drought with a jumper 3:37 into the game, but
Golden State never caught up, even though it did get within four
on two occasions late in the first period.
The margin was 11 at halftime before the Clippers broke the game
wide open when Landry Shamet (two) and Patterson (one) combined
for three 3-pointers in a 9-2 burst at the start of the third
period to open an 18-point gap.
The Warriors never got closer than 14 the rest of the way.
Kawhi Leonard finished with 21 points, Patterson 20, Montrezl
Harrell 18 and Zubac 16 for the Clippers, whose 2019 season came
to an end at the hands of the Warriors in the first round of the
playoffs.
Golden State went on to make the NBA Finals for a fifth
consecutive season before falling to the Leonard-led Toronto
Raptors.
Russell, making his Golden State debut after joining the club in
a sign-and-trade in which the Warriors lost Kevin Durant to the
Brooklyn Nets, backed Curry with 20 points. Reserves Eric
Paschall and Jacob Evans added 14 points apiece.
The Clippers shot 62.5 percent overall and 56.3 percent on
3-pointers for the game.
--Field Level Media
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