NBA schedule and results: Warriors top Clippers in classic matchup

Golden State has looked utterly unstoppable opening this season as the defending champion. The Clippers represented their toughest test yet, though. Both teams entered the game unbeaten and have a lengthy history of disliking each other. Rarely does a game in early November have as much brewing behind the scenes as this one did.

The basketball lived up to all that talk, too, with both teams putting forward stellar performances to keep each other at bay. The Warriors have often overwhelmed their opponents this season and set records with a 50-point win over Memphis in their last game. It’s a testament to the Clippers’ talent and composure that they were able to take Golden State’s biggest punches and respond in kind to make it a close game in the second half.

Do you want to get in the way of Blake Griffin? I sure don’t. Most people wouldn’t. Festus Ezeli doesn’t care. Festus Ezeli doesn’t give an eff! Blake got stuffed back into the stone age and the raucous Golden State crowd are rocking like this is a college basketball game in March, not an early-season NBA game in November.

Clippers vs. Warriors is the best rivalry in the NBA, hands down.

It’s devastatingly unfair that this Jae Crowder shot was worth nothing. It’s solely because he made it on an inbounds pass, so technically the ball wasn’t in play. At some point in time we need to bend the rules, though, because NOBODY will replicate this shot.

It should be worth at least six points. Degree of difficulty should count for something.