Numbers don’t lie.
Warriors star Steph Curry joined the NBC Sports Bay Area broadcast of Saturday night’s game, and his presence on air seemed to spark something in his teammates.
Curry got started at the beginning of the third quarter, and the Warriors immediately went on a scoring tear to start the second half. The run was punctuated by an alley-oop finish from Willie Cauley-Stein off the pass from D’Angelo Russell, pushing the Warriors' lead out to eight.
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That’s a heck of a start for Curry in his debut as an “Overpaid Sideline Reporter,” as the team so affectionately listed him at his desk.
Curry stayed on for the first segment of the fourth quarter and departed at the first timeout with a final Plus-Minus of +6.