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Curry’s three-pointers break records and Thunder’s hearts

Stephen Curry’s three-pointers broke NBA records and the Oklahoma City Thunder’s hearts.
Curry’s record-tying 12th three-pointer of the game, a 32-foot bomb with six-tenths of a second remaining in overtime, gave the visiting Golden State Warriors a thrilling 121-118 victory over the Thunder on Saturday night.
Curry scored 12 of his 46 points in overtime as the Warriors (53-5) won their fifth straight game and continued their march toward NBA history. Golden State became the first team to clinch a playoff berth and remained ahead of the pace of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls, who hold the NBA record with 72 wins.  
“There’s a lot of heart on our team. We never quit,” Curry said. “Obviously a lot had to go our way down the stretch.”
Shaking off a twisted ankle, Curry was 12-of-16 from the arc as he tied the NBA mark for three-pointers in a game shared by Kobe Bryant and Donyell Marshall. He has 288 three-pointers, surpassing his NBA record of 286 from last season.
“Curry was coming down and shooting some in the halfcourt, shooting step-back threes, and you have got to live with that,” Thunder superstar Kevin Durant said. “He made 12-of-16 from the three and all of them besides maybe one of them were tough.”  
“What Steph did was from the ridiculous to the sublime,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said.  
The Warriors trailed by four points with 14 seconds left in regulation after a three-pointer by Durant, who had 37 points and 12 rebounds. But Klay Thompson made a layup and Golden State trapped Durant, who threw away a pass and fouled Andre Iguodala, whose two free throws with 0.7 seconds left forced overtime.  
Durant fouled out in the extra session, but the Thunder still held a 118-115 lead with 33 seconds to play after a layup by Andre Roberson off a nice feed from Russell Westbrook, who had 26 points and 13 assists.  
But Thompson tied it with a three-point play, Iguodala rebounded a miss by Westbrook and passed to Curry, who dribbled upcourt and caught the Thunder’s defense backpedalling. He launched a long three-pointer that splashed through before celebrating with his teammates on the bench.  
“Coach said if we got a clean rebound, we could push it,” Curry said.  “Andre got it to me in the backcourt. They were kind of shuffling, trying to load up in transition. They didn’t pick up. I had it rolling all night.”  
Golden State trailed 57-46 at halftime as Durant scored 21 points.  There was a report from ABC that during intermission, a Warriors player - believed to be All-Star Draymond Green - went on a profanity-laced tirade that was heard through the locker room door.  
Less than two minutes into the third quarter, Curry twisted his left ankle. He went to the locker room but returned later in the period.  Curry’s three-pointer gave the Warriors their first lead at 78-77, but Durant ended the period with consecutive three-pointers.  
Thompson scored 32 points for the Warriors. Serge Ibaka had 15 points and a career-high 20 rebounds for the Thunder (41-18), who have lost five of their last eight games.  

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