#bench-scoring

#bench-scoring

We set (the tone) really on the defensive end to start the game, Podziemski said, not wanting to discuss his own big stat line. Just set a tone, got some easy ones. The crowd was slow to fill out FedEx Forum on Wednesday evening, an unsurprising development considering the two players whose jersey dotted the stands Steph Curry and Ja Morant were both inactive.

Will Richard drove his hands right into the fray late in the fourth quarter as two Nets lay on their back with the ball near midcourt of the Barclay's Center. The rookie from Florida ripped the ball away and dribbled toward a completely unguarded basket. But instead of scoring the two easiest points of his young career, he dished off to teammate Trayce Jackson-Davis for a thunderous dunk.

The USC women's basketball team took care of Cal Poly on Thursday night at the Galen Center with an 86-39 win. The Trojans were led by Londynn Jones, who finished the game with a career-high of 28 points while making 11 out of 16 field goals, and Jazzy Davidson, who scored 17 points and had nine rebounds. The Trojans (8-3) looked sluggish in the first half, with Davidson making only three of 11 field goals, and the Mustangs (2-9) grabbing 15 rebounds.

The Warriors will finish a two-game road trip with a matchup at Denver on Friday, and will have to do so without their franchise player. Curry was noticeably coughing and sniffling during the last home game against Phoenix, and he told reporters that he had been fighting sickness for the previous midwestern road trip to Milwaukee and Indiana. He did not travel with the team to Sacramento, and Curry was ruled out with with an illness on the NBAs official injury report.