Spurs vs. Warriors: Score, Highlights and Reaction from 2016 Regular Season

October 25th, 2016 by Alec Nathan Leave a reply »

Last season, it took the Golden State Warriors 25 games to drop their first contest. 

This year, 48 minutes did the trick. 

Even though the Warriors entered Tuesday night engulfed in hype facilitated by Kevin Durant's free-agent arrival, the San Antonio Spurs bested the defending Western Conference champions, 129-100, at Oracle Arena in both teams' season opener. 



Kawhi Leonard was sensational in the wire-to-wire rout with a career-high 35 points on 10-of-21 shooting and a perfect 15-of-15 night from the charity stripe, five rebounds and five steals. He routinely thrashed Golden State's defense with composed shot-making, as NBA TV documented: 



Assisting Leonard in the onslaught were LaMarcus Aldridge and Jonathon Simmons, each of whom stuffed the stat sheet with aplomb.

Aldridge roasted the Warriors with 26 points on 10-of-20 shooting and 14 rebounds (eight offensive). He only had two games with at least 26 points and 14 boards last season, according to Basketball-Reference.com. 

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