<p>SAN FRANCISCO — Kelly Oubre Jr. converted a pair of free throws with 7.7 seconds left to give Golden State the lead, and Milwaukee missed at the end as the Warriors held off the Bucks 122-121 on Tuesday night. </p>
<p>In a furious finish like those Golden State teams of years past, Stephen Curry made a 3-pointer with 1:06 to play on the way to 41 points with five 3-pointers as his team worked until the final buzzer to snap a three-game losing streak.</p>
<p>Jrue Holiday scored the go-ahead basket after his offensive rebound with 29 seconds left.</p>
<p>Andrew Wiggins’ driving dunk with 1:59 to play made it a one-point game, then Golden State got a defensive stop before Kent Bazemore put his team ahead the next time down.</p>
<p>Oubre wound up with 19 points and Bazemore scored 18 in just the Warriors’ second win in nine games.</p>
<p>Khris Middleton scored 28 points as Milwaukee again missed injured big man Giannis Antetokounmpo. Holiday finished with 29 points and knocked down back-to-back 3-pointers that weren’t quite enough.</p>
<p>Antetokounmpo sat out his second straight game with a sore left knee after missing a 129-128 win at Sacramento on Saturday. The two-time reigning MVP, who scored 47 points to match his season high in a 127-109 win over Portland on Friday, missed his fourth game out of the Bucks’ last nine after the hope had been he would play Tuesday.</p>
<p>“He was warming up tonight and just felt it a little bit,” Milwaukee coach Mike Budenholzer said. “Just made the decision that tonight was not a good night, a night he should be out.”</p>
<p>For the Warriors, this performance marked progress on many fronts: the energy on both ends, the attention to detail that had lacked during a particularly discouraging recent road trip — and, of course, the W result.</p>
<p>Curry shot 14 for 21 and 5 of 10 from deep.</p>
<p>The two-time MVP missed Friday’s game at Toronto still dealing with a bruised tailbone, then played nearly 37 minutes Sunday at Atlanta</p>
<p>Milwaukee had won two in a row against Golden State, including a 138-99 rout on Christmas Day, and the Bucks saw the end to a three-game winning streak on the Warriors’ home floor.</p>
<p>Golden State came out shooting and made 7 of 11 to jump ahead 18-5 and force two early timeouts by the Bucks. </p>
<p>“No. 1, defending without fouling would be awesome," Warriors coach Steve Kerr quipped beforehand. "That was so disappointing the other night to really play a good game overall and compete and have a chance to win and just hack our way to a loss.”</p>
<p>TIP-INS</p>
<p>Bucks: Reserve F P.J. Tucker missed his seventh straight game with a strained left calf. He didn’t practice Monday and has played in only three games for the Bucks since they acquired him from Houston. … Holiday was named Eastern Conference player of the week Monday and had 33 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds at Sacramento without Antetokounmpo. Holiday signed a four-year extension Sunday that will be worth at least $134 million if he exercises the fourth-year option. </p>
<p>Warriors: Curry is just 88 points (17,695) from Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain’s career franchise scoring record of 17,783. … The Warriors hit five of their first six shots — 3s by Curry, Oubre and Wiggins — for a quick 13-3 lead and Bucks timeout at 9:30.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>Bucks: At Dallas on Thursday night having won 21 straight against the Mavericks.</p>
<p>Warriors: Host Washington on Friday night in the first of two second-half matchups with the Wizards.</p>
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