Steph Curry scores 39, leads Warriors to comeback win over Pelicans

Steph Curry continued his late-season flurry with 39 points as the Warriors edged ahead of Minnesota into sixth place in the Western Conference.

Curry scored an incredible eight three-pointers, including five in the second half as the NBA champions fought back to erase a huge 20-point deficit to fire past the Pelicans. 

The game was a tense affair that threatened to boil over throughout. Warriors star Draymond Green and New Orleans’ Brandon Ingram were involved in a scuffle that resulted in both players receiving technical fouls.

The Warriors were architects of their own troubles with 14 turnovers in the first half as they went down 17 at the break.

The dubs found some life in the second half as they began the  third quarter with an 8-0 scoring run and had cut the deficit to four points going into the fourth.

“We started playing with some heart and intensity,” Green said of the difference in the second half.

Poole scored 13 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter, and Klay Thompson added 17 for the Warriors.

Golden State now sit 6th in the Western Conference with a 40-37 record.