DeMarcus Cousins Was His Best Self And The Kings Took Down The Warriors

What should have been an easy win for the Warriors became an overtime upset, courtesy of DeMarcus Cousins and the Kings.

A near-triple-double from Cousins (32 points, 12 rebounds and 9 assists) helped power Sacramento to a 109-106 win in overtime, while the Warriors struggled as a strong performance from Steph Curry wasn’t enough to overcome an especially weak night from Kevin Durant. The Kings’ bench also stepped up to the plate, outscoring the Warriors’ reserves by a margin of 45-16, with Willie Cauley-Stein shining in particular on 14 points in 17 minutes.

Curry scored 35 points on 11-of-20 shooting and was 8-of-14 from three, but he missed an easy layup that would have given the Warriors the win with five seconds left in overtime:

Durant, meanwhile, scored 10 points on 2-of-10 shooting and didn’t attempt a single shot in overtime. The Warriors’ situation was not helped by coach Steve Kerr getting ejected at the end of the third quarter, angry after a Draymond Green technical:

Cousins wasn’t perfect—he faltered a bit through the last five minutes of regulation and then overtime, going 4-of-13 in that span, and he picked up an especially dumb technical for shouting at the refs with two minutes to go in a close game—but he was more than the Warriors could handle.

The loss dropped the Warriors to 0-3 in overtime games this seasons, putting their overall record at 43-8. The Kings are now 20-31.