The Lakers won the first quarter 38-15. The Warriors won the second 38-15.
No team in the shot-clock era had trailed by 23 or more after one quarter and been tied or better at halftime, the Associated Press reported; Golden State was tied at 53 and beat Los Angeles 112-95. Stephen Curry scored 31 and passed Dominique Wilkins for 18th on the NBA's career scoring list.
Luka Doncic made five 3-pointers in the first quarter on Friday night. He had 21 points on 12 shots. The Lakers led 38-15 after 12 minutes at Chase Center, and the Warriors had turned the ball over 10 times, the Associated Press counted.
That was the first quarter. The second quarter was the first quarter played back the other way.
Golden State 38, Los Angeles 15. Tied at 53.
By AP's account, nobody had done that. No team in the shot-clock era, regular season or playoffs, had been down 23 or more after one quarter and been even or ahead at the half. The Warriors then kept going and won 112-95. The 17-point margin is also the largest in the era for a team that trailed by 20 or more after one, AP reported.
The record it broke was theirs. On March 4, 1976, the Warriors trailed the Bulls 41-18 after the first quarter and won 124-110. That team was still down 63-50 at halftime, by Basketball Reference's line score. It needed three quarters to dig out. This one needed one.
The fourth quarter had its own line in the book#
Stephen Curry scored 31 points, with six assists and four rebounds. He made 8 of 14 from three. Somewhere in the fourth quarter, AP reported, he passed Dominique Wilkins and his 26,668 points for 18th on the NBA's career scoring list.
Curry came into the night with 26,643, by ESPN's career totals. He needed 26 to pass Wilkins. He got 31, and Basketball Reference now has him at 26,674.
Eighteenth is the NBA-only count. Basketball Reference's combined list also counts ABA points and has Curry 20th, behind Julius Erving and Dan Issel, but their NBA totals are 18,364 and 14,659. Either way, the next name above him is Oscar Robertson, at 26,710.
Thirty-six points. The Clippers are at Chase Center on Sunday.
Then Phoenix on Monday, which is the second night of a back-to-back. Curry sat the last one of those, at Phoenix on October 24, and Steve Kerr has said in public that the club does not play him on back-to-backs. So Sunday is the night to circle, and the one after it is a maybe.
Everybody else#
Brandin Podziemski scored 21, with six assists and five rebounds. De'Anthony Melton had 16 off the bench. Georges Niang scored 11 on 4-of-5 shooting, all three of his 3-point tries went in, and he finished plus-21, the best number on either side. Draymond Green scored two points, had nine assists and three steals, and was plus-17. That is a Draymond Green box score in the purest form it comes in.
As a team, Golden State made 22 of 46 threes. The Lakers made 11 of 39.
Doncic finished with 37. Subtract the first quarter and he scored 16 on 5-of-15 shooting the rest of the way, with one 3-pointer. He was given a technical foul with 21.8 seconds left in the third while the crowd chanted at him. Matisse Thybulle got one in the fourth. The Lakers scored 25 points off Golden State's 17 turnovers. Ten of those turnovers came in the first quarter.
The Warriors started the season 0-3, the first of those a 127-105 loss at the Lakers. They have won three straight since: 134-114 at Denver, 119-114 at Minnesota, and this. They are 3-3.
The read: Curry passes Hakeem Olajuwon's 26,946 career points before November ends. He needs 273. Golden State plays 14 times in November, by ESPN's schedule, and two of those are the second night of a back-to-back. Take those two away and it is 22.8 a game over the other 12. He is averaging 29.2 in his five games this season. What argues against it is the other number from last season: he played 43 of 82 games. Three missed nights would leave him needing better than 30 a game.
Clippers on Sunday, 5:30 p.m. Pacific.
Sources: The 38-15 first quarter, the 10 first-quarter turnovers, Doncic's first-quarter line, the technical fouls, Curry passing Wilkins in the fourth quarter and his 18th place, the shot-clock-era marks and the 1976 game from the Associated Press game story, October 30, 2026, via ESPN. Quarter scores, box score, team shooting and turnovers from ESPN's box score for game 401909285. The 1976 line score from Basketball Reference's box score of Chicago at Golden State, March 4, 1976. Curry's pre-game career total and his 2026-27 game log from ESPN, read 2:45 a.m. Pacific October 31; his post-game total and the career list, including Wilkins and Robertson, from Basketball Reference, read the same hour. NBA and ABA splits for Erving and Issel from their Basketball Reference pages. Kerr on back-to-backs from Monte Poole, NBC Sports Bay Area, October 15. Schedule, results and tip-off time from ESPN's Warriors schedule. Curry's 43 games in 2025-26 from ESPN.
