Curry scores 41 as Warriors edge Magic in overtime for seventh straight win

Stephen Curry scored 41 points and made the decisive baskets in overtime as the Golden State Warriors beat the Orlando Magic 126-119 at Chase Center on Saturday 7 November, their seventh consecutive victory.

Curry converted a three-point play with 1:38 left in the extra period to put Golden State ahead, then added a layup in the final minute to close out a game that had slipped away from the Warriors in the third quarter and very nearly got away from them altogether in the fourth.

He finished with six rebounds and six assists to go with his 41 points, and his shooting line was almost flawless: 13-of-19 from the field, 5-of-10 from three-point range and 10-of-10 from the free-throw line, according to NBC Sports Bay Area.

A collapse, then a rescue

For long stretches this looked comfortable. The Warriors led by as many as 16 points before Orlando turned the game on its head with a 37-20 third quarter, according to the team's official recap.

The Magic kept coming, and with the final seconds of regulation ticking down they grabbed an offensive rebound and scored on a put-back layup to tie the game and force overtime.

That moment summed up Golden State's problem all night. The Warriors were outscored 33-2 in second-chance points, a margin that would sink most teams. That they survived it says a great deal about what happened in the extra five minutes.

Golden State outscored Orlando 16-9 in overtime, shooting 5-for-7 from the field while holding the Magic to 2-for-9. Curry and Yaxel Lendeborg combined for 12 of those 16 points, per NBC Sports Bay Area, and the Magic simply could not find an answer at either end.

Curry scored 19 of his 41 points across the fourth quarter and overtime. The deeper the game went, the more it belonged to him.

Lendeborg was an important second scorer, finishing with 23 points on 9-of-15 shooting and eight rebounds. Brandin Podziemski added 15 points, seven rebounds and four three-pointers.

Records keep falling

The win carried a stack of milestones for Curry, several of them documented by the Warriors.

His 41 points gave him his 16th 40-point game since turning 35, breaking a tie with LeBron James for the most in NBA history, the team said. It is a remarkable number for a player at this stage of his career, and the company he has now moved past tells its own story.

It was also the 100th consecutive game in which Curry has made a three-pointer. The Warriors said it is the third such streak of his career and that he is the only player in league history with multiple streaks of at least 100 games.