Stephen Curry has had 29 points and Klay Thompson added 28 as the Golden State Warriors pulled away late in the fourth quarter for a 124-114 victory over the Houston Rockets.
The Warriors extended their road winning streak to nine games and have won an NBA-best 16 road games this season.
The teams stayed close through most of the game but the Warriors had a seven-point lead with about 3 1/2 minutes left.
They scored the next five points, highlighted by a three-pointer from Curry, to make it 120-109.
The Rockets got 30 points from Eric Gordon as they played their second game without James Harden, who is out for at least two weeks with a hamstring strain.
"We've got to get better as a team," Houston coach Mike D'Antoni said.
"We're just not quite there defensively, communication, all the stuff we can control we're not doing."
On Harden's absence, Thompson said: "Obviously they were missing their best player without James so we felt like there was an opportunity for us.
The Warriors were short-handed, too, playing without Kevin Durant, who missed the game with strained right calf.
Curry added nine rebounds and five assists and a steal in his third game back after missing 11 with a sprained right ankle.
Golden State led by 10 after a dunk by David West with about 7 1/2 minutes remaining. The Rockets scored the next five points, with a 3-pointer from Gerald Green, to get to 108-103, but the Warriors scored the next five points to go up by 10 again.
The Warriors were up by three after three and opened the fourth quarter with an 8-1 run to make it 101-91 with about 10 minutes left.
Chris Paul re-entered the game after that and he helped get things going when he found Gordon for a three-pointer which started a 7-2 run that cut the lead to 103-98.
Paul finished with 28 points, nine assists and seven rebounds.
In Los Angeles, the Oklahoma City Thunder outscored the LA Clippers 31-20 in the fourth to notch up a 127-117 win.
Paul George hit 31 points, while Russell Westbrook scored 29 points, and had 12 rebounds and 11 assists.
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