Draymond Green's season-high 13 assists carry Golden State through overtime

Draymond Green did not need a scoring night to shape Saturday's win. He finished with a season-high 13 assists, six rebounds, two steals and two blocks as the Golden State Warriors outlasted the Orlando Magic 126-119 in overtime at Chase Center.

Green scored two points in 34 minutes on 1-of-5 shooting and missed both of his free throws. ESPN's box matches that line and lists a plus-11. The Associated Press singled out the 13 assists as a season high. What the play-by-play shows is how those passes arrived when the game tightened.

In the fourth quarter Green assisted Georges Niang's 25-foot three that cut an 83-77 deficit to three, then found Niang again for a layup that tied the score at 85. He later set up Yaxel Lendeborg's layup that made it 98-96. With the game tied at 100, Green assisted Stephen Curry's layup, then Curry's 26-foot three at 1:47 and Curry's 25-foot three at 1:01.

In overtime he found Lendeborg for a 26-foot three that pushed Golden State ahead 117-112 after Orlando had climbed back within two.

Keeping the floor organized

Golden State led 57-41 at halftime and then watched Orlando score 37 points in the third to take a 78-77 lead into the fourth. The Warriors answered with 33 points in the fourth and 16 in overtime.

Green was the common passer on the possessions that flipped the last two periods, even as Curry scored 41, with six boards and six helpers, and Lendeborg added 23 points and eight rebounds.

The AP recap noted that security guards kept Green from joining a second-quarter tussle between Niang and Wendell Carter Jr., who were each assessed a technical at 9:17 of the second quarter. The same recap said that intervention came after Green's ejection against Phoenix last Monday. He stayed on the floor for 34 minutes and did not pick up a technical.

Golden State finished with 32 assists to Orlando's 29. Franz Wagner matched Green's playmaking from the other side with 11 assists to go with 30 points. Green also had four turnovers; the Warriors committed 18 player turnovers and one team turnover, per ESPN's totals.

Jamal Cain's tip-in with 1.5 seconds left in regulation, per ESPN's play-by-play, forced overtime after Curry's driving layup at 25.2 seconds had put the Warriors up 110-108. In the extra period Curry converted an and-one at the 1:38 mark that made it 120-118, then scored again with 54.1 seconds left.

Lendeborg dunked with 11 seconds remaining and made both free throws to close it at 126-119.

The Warriors are 7-3 after winning their seventh in a row, their longest streak since seven straight from March 3-15, 2025, the AP reported. They started the season 0-3. Orlando dropped to 2-7.

Niang scored 11 points, his third straight double-digit game, the AP said. Brandin Podziemski added 15 points on 5-of-7 shooting, including 4-of-5 from three. Golden State shot 54 percent from the field and 47 percent from three. The Magic shot 38 percent but controlled the glass, 57-42, with 24 offensive rebounds.

A crowd of 18,064 watched at Chase Center. Charlotte is next on the Warriors' home schedule Monday, while the Magic travel to Sacramento for Tuesday night.

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