Kevin Durant scores 41 points as Golden State Warriors beat New York Knicks

Kevin Durant scored 25 of his amusement high 41 points in the final quarter as the Golden State Warriors finished an incensed rally to beat the New York Knicks 128-100. 

Game leaders

Golden State Warriors

• Points: Kevin Durant - 41
• Assists: Draymond Green - 6
• Rebounds: Kevin Durant - 9

New York Knicks

• Points: Tim Hardaway Jr - 24
• Assists: Hardaway Jr/Vonleh - 4
• Rebounds: Enes Kanter - 13

The Warriors (5-1), the safeguarding NBA champions, have won five of six amusements to open the season.

Stephen Curry scored 29 points for Golden State while Draymond Green (18) and Klay Thompson (12 points) additionally scored in twofold digits. The Knicks (1-5) have lost five straight since a season-opening win, however, they have tumbled to contenders, for example, Golden State, the Boston Celtics, and the Milwaukee Bucks.

Tim Hardaway Jr drove New York with 24 points while Frank Ntilikina had 17. Trey Burke included 15 and Damyean Dotson completed with 12. The Knicks gave the Warriors everything they could deal with for a large portion of Friday night.

The two groups were tied toward the finish of the primary quarter (25-25) and at half-time (53-53) preceding New York opened up a noteworthy lead on Hardaway's three-pointer with 1:51 remaining in the second from last quarter.

In any case, Kevon Looney scored the following five points for the Warriors. Burke depleted a three-pointer to stretch out the Knicks' lead back to eight points previously Golden State scored the last five of the quarter to pull inside 84-81. Burke (seven) and Durant (eight points) exchanged pails in the initial three minutes of the final quarter before the Warriors fled over the last nine minutes. Green's layup with 8:41 remaining made the last tie at 91-all and Durant, who didn't score in the second from last quarter, put Golden State ahead with a layup with 8:15 to go.

The containers by Green and Durant started the end 42-9 edge for the Warriors.

Durant scored 21 of those focuses. The blade crates were back to back three-pointers by Green and Alfonzo McKennie that stretched out Golden State's prompt 112-96 with 3:59 remaining.

In the principal half, Warriors focus DeMarcus Cousins was shot out for belligerence with an authority from the seat. Cousins, marked as a free specialist in the offseason, has not played in an amusement and is relied upon to be out until in any event January.