Klay Thompson has broken teammate Stephen Curry's NBA record for 3-pointers in a game with his 14th during a brilliant offensive performance by the Golden State Warriors.
Thompson set the mark with just under five minutes remaining in the third quarter Monday night against the Chicago Bulls. He was mobbed by teammates as the players headed to the sideline for a timeout, with the Warriors leading 113-69.
Golden State led 92-50 at halftime, the second highest point total for a half in NBA history. Phoenix scored 107 points in the first half of a 173-143 victory over Denver in 1990.
Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson, right, drives to the basket past Chicago Bulls forward Jabari Parker, left, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, in Chicago. (AP PhotoKamil Krzaczynski)
Thompson was just 5 for 36 from long range through Golden State's first seven games.
Curry hit 13 3-pointers against New Orleans on Nov. 11, 2016.
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Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson, right, drives to the basket against Chicago Bulls forward Justin Holiday, left, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, in Chicago. (AP PhotoKamil Krzaczynski)
Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine, center, shoots against Golden State Warriors center Damian Jones, left, and guard Klay Thompson, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, in Chicago. (AP PhotoKamil Krzaczynski)
COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin isn't just winning every slalom of the Olympic season. She's winning them by an average of more than 1.5 seconds — an eternity in ski racing.
The American skiing standout claimed a record-extending 105th World Cup victory after several of her top challengers went out during a night race Tuesday.
Shiffrin added to her first-run lead to finish 1.55 seconds ahead of Swiss skier Camille Rast and 1.71 ahead of German racer Emma Aicher.
Shiffrin has now won the opening four slaloms of the season — and five straight including the final race of last season.
All of her margins of victory this season have topped a full second — and three of them more than 1.5 seconds: 1.66 in Levi Finland; 1.23 in Gurgl, Austria; and 1.57 in Copper Mountain, Colorado before her latest performance in the French Alps.
Do the math and the average margin is 1.5025 seconds.
Lena Duerr, the German who stood third after the first run, went off course early in her second trip down.
Lara Colturi, the Italian-born skier who races for Albania, straddled a gate toward the end of her opening run — ending a streak of three consecutive slalom podiums.
Wendy Holdener managed a seventh-place finish despite a mishap at the end of her first run.
Holdener hit a hole in the finish area, got flipped up into the air and landed on her back. After grimacing in pain for a few moments, she got up and walked away. It wasn’t immediately clear if she was injured but she competed in the second run.
Defending World Cup slalom champion Zrinka Ljutic and Olympic silver medalist Katharina Liensberger, the next two starters, went out midway down.
It’s the third straight slalom that Ljutic has failed to finish.
Katharina Truppe of Austria finished fourth and American skier Paula Moltzan moved up from ninth to fifth with the fastest second run.
Shiffrin earned her 68th World Cup slalom win. She also won gold in slalom at the 2014 Sochi Olympics — then took gold in giant slalom four years later at the Pyeongchang Games.
But Shiffrin didn't medal at the 2022 Beijing Games.
Women’s Alpine skiing at the Feb. 6-22 Olympics will be held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy — where Shiffrin won four medals in her four events at the 2021 world championships and where Lindsey Vonn holds the record of 12 World Cup victories.
Vonn, who won a downhill last week at age 41, no longer competes in slalom.
Vonn will be back in action this weekend for a downhill and a super-G in nearby Val d’Isere.
Rast recovered from a mistake midway down her second run to earn the sixth podium of her career.
Aicher, who also won a downhill last weekend, is one of the few skiers competing in all four events.
Rast and Aicher moved up to third and fourth in the overall standings, respectively.
Shiffrin leads the overall with 558 points, followed by Alice Robinson (394), Rast (343) and Aicher (319).
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Switzerland's Camille Rast celebrates at the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Cup slalom, in Courchevel, France, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)
United States' Mikaela Shiffrin, left, winner of an alpine ski, women's World Cup slalom, and Germany's Emma Aicher, third-placed, congratulate each other at the finish area, in Courchevel, France, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)
United States' Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates winning an alpine ski, women's World Cup slalom, in Courchevel, France, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)
Albania's Lara Colturi competes in an alpine ski, women's World Cup slalom, in Courchevel, France, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Pier Marco Tacca)
United States' Mikaela Shiffrin competes in an alpine ski, women's World Cup slalom, in Courchevel, France, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Pier Marco Tacca)
United States' Mikaela Shiffrin competes in an alpine ski, women's World Cup slalom, in Courchevel, France, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Pier Marco Tacca)
United States' Mikaela Shiffrin competes in an alpine ski, women's World Cup slalom, in Courchevel, France, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)
