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The Golden State Warriors will get an opportunity to add to a historic winning streak when they wrap up a six-game homestand with a contest against the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night in San Francisco.
The Warriors have won seven straight games since an 0-3 start. The last team to accomplish that feat was the Boston Celtics of 1950-51, Red Auerbach’s first season as coach.
No NBA team has ever started 0-3 and then won eight straight games.
The seventh win was the hardest of the run for the Warriors, who needed overtime to overtake the Orlando Magic 126-119 on Saturday night.
Stephen Curry had 41 points in the win, his second 40-point game of the season — a feat at age 38 that had his coach in awe afterward.
“He’s been blessed with a body that has held up,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr told the media after that game. “But he’s also earned that through his strength training (and) his conditioning. His fitness level is just off the charts. So remarkable at 38 to watch him still do what he does.”
Curry is averaging 31.3 points per game, second in the NBA to Luka Doncic of the Los Angeles Lakers (40.1).
The Pelicans have plenty of experience with Curry’s greatness. In 40 career games against the franchise, he is averaging 26 points per game on shooting percentages of 48.2% from the field, 45.7% from 3-point territory, and 92.2% from the free-throw line.
As the Warriors prepare to embark on a five-game trip that will have them in New Orleans next Monday, the Pelicans will wrap up a two-day, two-game California trek.
On Sunday, they lost 139-123 to the Los Angeles Clippers, who had won just one of their first eight games. New Orleans lost despite hitting 50.6% of its shots from the field. The Clippers made 54.8% of theirs.
Golden State fans could have a chance to see Jordan Poole in action.
Poole played his first four seasons for the Warriors, averaging 20.4 points in his fourth season before being traded to the Washington Wizards as part of the deal for Chris Paul in July 2023.
After two seasons in Washington, one in which he averaged a career-best 20.5 points, Poole was dealt to the Pelicans in July 2025, where he started eight games last year before a coaching change, a talented backcourt and a sprained left ankle kept his minutes down.
In fact, Poole hasn’t left the New Orleans bench in either of the club’s past two games, which followed his three-game absence with the ankle injury. He was a rotation regular, averaging 6 points and 3 assists in 19 minutes per game, before suffering the injury Oct. 28 in a loss to the Denver Nuggets.
The offensive-minded Poole, who is in the final year of his contract, has yet to start a game this season as new Pelicans coach Jamahl Mosley has stressed defense.
“Shots falling, shots not falling … you give yourself a chance to compete every single night by defending at a high level,” Mosley told reporters. “When you check, it’s who scores more points; you’re going to have to put the points on the board. But if you can stop that opponent from getting two more, you’ve done your job.”
Dejounte Murray and Jeremiah Fears have been the Pelicans’ starting guards in every game when healthy this season. Murray has 13 steals in his seven starts, while Fears, who is coming off a 25-point game against the Clippers, has been one of the team’s top scorers at an average of 15.8 points per game.
– Field Level Media
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