SAN FRANCISCO — – Dennis Schroder scored 31 points, Cam Thomas added 23 and the undermanned Brooklyn Nets rallied to beat Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors 128-120 on Monday night.

Curry made a 3-pointer with 3:26 left to pull the Warriors within three, but Golden State couldn’t make the crucial stops and squandered an 18-point lead. Curry scored 28 points and Andrew Wiggins added 18 points.

Schroder’s 3 with 11:10 left tied the game at 92, and he put his team ahead with another at 9:43.

Jalen Wilson had 18 points for the short-handed Nets in a back-to-back game following a 108-103 win in Sacramento a night earlier.

Schroder missed Sunday’s game in Sacramento with right ankle soreness but returned for Brooklyn, which took a 9-2 lead before a Warriors timeout and ensuing point got the home team going.

The Warriors, coming off a 10-point loss in San Antonio on Saturday, fell to 5-2 at home and 12-5 overall.

Takeaways

Nets: The Nets were missing Ben Simmons, Dorian Finney-Smith and Noah Clowney, who underwent an MRI examination on the sprained left ankle he injured on Sunday, but coach Jordi Fernandez did not yet know the results. Nic Claxton felt something in his troubled back and also sat down. Simmons rests the second game of back-to-backs.

Warriors: The Warriors totaled 47 bench points. … Jonathan Kuminga missed his second straight game due to an illness.

Key moments

Moses Moody entered the game with 3:15 left in the second quarter and scored 12 straight Warriors points in the final 2:54 – with Curry assisting on Moody’s two three-pointers and also a layup as Golden State with 67-58 in the second quarter. break.

Key statistics

Despite missing four players from their regular rotation, the Nets shot 44.4% from 3.

Next

Brooklyn wraps up its West Coast swing in Phoenix on Wednesday, the same night the Warriors host Oklahoma City.

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