What we learned as Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler carve up Knicks in Warriors’ win

BOX SCORESAN FRANCISCO – The Warriors knew what they were getting Thursday night when the New York Knicks came into Chase Center without their best player and following a loss to the lowly Kings in Sacramento 21 hours earlier.The Knicks would be angry and surely knew they had to compensate for Jalen Brunson’s absence.The Warriors shook off a slow start and a pesky outing by the Knicks by riding a superb game from Jimmy Butler III to come away with a 126-113 victory that put Golden State (23-19) four games over .500 for the first time this season.Butler poured in a game-high 32 points, with Stephen Curry scoring 27, Moses Moody finishing with 21 and Brandin Podziemski adding 19. This was the eighth time this season that at least three Warriors scored at least 20 points. Jimmy's reaction to this 3 pic.twitter.com/pgyxBPJC6d — Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) January 16, 2026 Here are three observations from a win over the skidding Knicks:The Jimmy-Steph tag teamWhen the Warriors endured another slow start, falling behind 33-19 with 3:33 left in the first quarter, Curry went to the bench a few seconds later, putting the non-Steph minutes...