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The Warriors may be entering play on January 21 with the worst record in the NBA, but you couldn’t tell by watching them compete. Perhaps showing their inexperience, quite a few games have slipped away from Golden State over the course of the season, and Monday night’s 129-124 loss to the Trail Blazers was no exception.

It took 61 mostly incredible points and an overtime period from Damian Lillard to help the Blazers walk away with the victory, and in doing so, the club sent the Warriors to their 10th straight overtime loss.

Golden State lost their previous overtime contest to the Nuggets back on January 17, and narrowly. The final score was 134-131, which gives the Warriors another close loss to a top team out West. Moral victories don’t count in the win column, but anyone watching Golden State can clearly see that they’re a team that competes and fights.

Still, the last time the team won an overtime game was way back in December 2017. That streak is bound to end sooner or later, especially with Stephen Curry’s return on the horizon.

But on Monday night, Lillard had other ideas. As a result, the Warriors are still riding a long losing streak with respect to their overtime contests.

Steve Kerr’s team will next be in action when they square off against the Utah Jazz at Chase Center on Wednesday night.

In the waning moments of the Warriors’ Thursday night loss to the Denver Nuggets, Eric Paschall connected on a go-ahead basket with about 16 seconds remaining in the regulation. The shot gave the Warriors a 113-111 lead, and it appeared that Steve Kerr’s team was on their way to scoring a major win over a depleted Nuggets team that was playing without a number of its rotation players.

However, what appeared to be a game-winning shot ended up being irrelevant, as Nikola Jokic scored a game-tying basket on the ensuing possession and sent the contest into overtime.

The Nuggets would eventually prevail by a final score of 134-131.

The loss was Golden State’s 10th in a row and their 15th in their last 19 games. For them, this season is all about development, so the team can look forward to a high draft pick this summer and, they hope, a healthy Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson for the 2020-21 season.

Still, it was interesting to learn that Thursday night’s overtime loss was the club’s ninth consecutive time that the team fell in the extra period.

Golden State hasn’t emerged victorious from an overtime game since December 18, 2017. On that day, they secured a 116-114 victory over their division foe, the Los Angeles Lakers.

Since then, Stephen Curry and company have suffered overtime losses to the Clippers, Raptors, Trail Blazers, Rockets, Timberwolves (twice), Knicks and Spurs. Then, on Thursday night, they fell to the Nuggets.

While the statistic isn’t necessarily relevant — the Warriors went 115-49 the past two seasons and won the Western Conference crown both years — it is interesting, especially considering the team’s dominance.

Wins have certainly been hard to come by this season for Steve Kerr’s team… But, apparently, not as difficult as overtime wins have been over the past two years.