Golden State Warriors appeared in good shape when Andrew Wiggins was fouled with three seconds left and the game tied at 107.
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Keldon Johnson scored off a rebound of a missed free throw with three-tenths of a second left to give the San Antonio Spurs a 110-108 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Sunday night. Jakob Poeltl made the first of two free throws to it at 108 with 2.4 seconds left. He missed the second off the back iron, but Johnson grabbed the rebound and converted the winner. Josh Richardson led the Spurs with 25 points, and Dejounte Murray had 19.
”I crashed in and I think somebody tipped it, and I just grabbed it and turned around and put it up,” Johnson said. ”I was like, `I just want to get it off in time.”’
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Klay Thompson missed a 3-pointer from the right corner as time expired. Jordan Poole scored 28 points for Golden State, and Thompson had 24. Playing for the first time since losing Stephen Curry to a left foot injury, the third-place Warriors dropped 1 1/2 games behind second-place Memphis and 10 1/2 games back of NBA-leading Phoenix.
The Warriors held San Antonio to 38.8% shooting overall, but they committed 15 turnovers that San Antonio converted into 22 points.
Golden State appeared in good shape when Andrew Wiggins was fouled with three seconds left and the game tied at 107. He made his first free throw, but missed the second. Kevon Looney was called for a loose-ball foul on Poeltl, setting up the closing sequence.
”We played hard through the whole game, but in the NBA you’ve got to be ready from tipoff,” Warriors forward Nemanja Bjelica said. ”. Without Steph, we’ve got to play smarter. Everyone wants to win on this team, but sometimes we need to just slow down and do some smarter things on the court.”
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Draymond Green was in the Warriors’ starting lineup for the first time since returning from a calf injury last week, but he was ejected in the third quarter after getting called for two technicals in an eight-second span.
San Antonio led 36-22 at the end of the first period on the strength of 59.1% shooting. But Poole and Thompson combined for 15 points in the second quarter and the Warriors cut it to 63-57 at halftime.
