The Golden State Warriors had an easy time disposing of the Denver Nuggets on the road Saturday, eking out a comfortable 127-108 win for their third-straight victory.
As usual, it was the pair of Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry, who did most of the damage on their opponents. Durant paced the team with 25 points, while Curry had 22 markers.
While Curry’s scoring output in that game was a little bit short of his season average of 26.7 points per game and that the Warriors beating a young Denver team wasn’t surprising, one statistical tidbit from the two-time MVP has made the game into something worth bookmarking.
People who probed the box score of the said game likely have noticed that Curry had an almost unbelievable plus-minus of +44 in the game. That’s a career-high for Curry, per ESPN.
In other words, the Warriors scored 44 more points than Denver when Curry was on the floor. That also meant that Curry had impacted the game positively for Golden State in other ways beyond putting up baskets.
Curry is coming off a 2016-17 season in which he led the league in Regularized Adjusted Plus Minus (RAPM), such statistical anomalies like this from the Warriors guard shouldn’t be all too shocking for keen basketball observers.
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