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Saturday, January 3, 2015 - 1:00am
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OAKLAND – The Warriors put on a thoroughly dominating performance Friday night at Oracle Arena, walloping the Toronto Raptors 126-105.

Though there were highlights aplenty, at both ends of the court, the play that generated most buzz was Stephen Curry's breakaway dunk in the third quarter.

Yes, Curry can dunk. He often does it in practices but rarely in a game.

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"There were a lot of highlights," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said, "but that might have been No. 1.

"That one was great because it was with a defender on him. It was a challenge at the rim and we went up and brought the house down."

Curry victimized, if not posterized, Raptors star Kyle Lowry, who trailed the play and tried to contest the slam.

"I knew he was there," Curry said. "When I caught the ball, I got a little adrenaline kick and figured I could get it by turning my hand over and getting it on the rim. I jumped a little higher than I thought, which was nice.

"I lost my mind for a good 20 seconds. That was my first kind of dunk with some oomph with it."

Curry screamed and pounded his chest in an unusually primal display of emotion. The dunk pushed the score to 93-73 with 4:02 left in the third quarter.

There was some debate as to whether Curry actually "dunked on" Lowry. Draymond Green was having none of it.

"He dunked on him," Green asserted. "(Lowry) tried to block it.

"I didn’t expect it," Green added. "I couldn't even stop screaming when he did it. I'm just out there yelling. That was cool. We had the momentum and that just really gave us another boost."

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