Golden State have moved to 13-0 in one of the best season starts in NBA history, with a huge come-from-behind win over the Los Angeles Clippers at the Staples Centre.
Andrew Bogut's Warriors, who were down by as much as 23 points in the second quarter and behind at every break, blitzed the Clippers during the fourth quarter to win 124-117.
On a great day for Aussies in the NBA, Matthew Dellavedova also tallied a career high for Cleveland.
Reigning league MVP Steph Curry dropped 13 final quarter points on his way to 40 for the night to lead all scorers as the Warriors netted 73 per cent of their shots in the final term.
Curry's play overshadowed that of Clippers guard Chris Paul, who also turned in a huge game, dropping 35 points on 13 of 22 shooting, Blake Griffin backing him up with 27.
Curry was far from happy with his own performance.
"I've got to be a lot better than I was tonight," he said.
"The stats looked good but I've got to play better.
"My teammates got on me and I had to rectify the situation and we did that in the fourth quarter."
Curry also revealed he felt the team could do better and that they put themselves in a losing position.
"No matter how bad we are playing our goal is to always have a shot," he said.
"It's going to be ugly some games, it's going to be fun some games but we have to make plays down the stretch and we did that tonight."
Where the loss leaves the Clippers, who were vocal in the pre-season about how they could beat the Warriors, is anyone's guess as they slumped to a 6-5 record.
The win makes the Warriors just the fifth team to start a season 13-0, putting them behind the 2002/03 Dallas Mavericks and 1957/58 Boston Celtics (14-0) as well as the 1993/94 Houston Rockets and 1948/49 Washington Capitols (15-0).
As they chase the record the Warriors will next play the Chicago Bulls in Chicago before going to Denver to play the Nuggets.
In Cleveland Dellavedova was dishing out some tasty treats for his Cavaliers buddies, giving 13 assists - the biggest total of his career as well as scoring seven points as the Cavs beat the Milwaukee Bucks 115-100.
LeBron James scored 27 points and Kevin Love added 22 points and 15 rebounds in the win but coach David Blatt had much praise for the Aussie, who in the absence of Mo Williams started and played 38 minutes.
"Delly was pretty good for us last year. I don't know if suddenly he has morphed into something that he wasn't last year," Blatt told reporters who asked if Dellavedova had improved dramatically over the off season.
"I remember him giving us a lot of good games and starting in the NBA finals where he scored 20 points in one of the games.
"What I liked about Delly's game today is he made simple plays and made them at the right times and helped his team run and win.
"There is always a place for Delly to play on this team because of the intangibles he brings."
In the day's other game the Miami Heat beat the lowly Sacramento Kings - who were missing star centre DeMarcus Cousins - 116-109.
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