Generally, having one starter go down with injury and three other starters quickly saddled with foul trouble is no way for a struggling NBA team to snap out of its funk.

But, as was obvious early on, Thursday?s Charlotte-Golden State game was going to be far from normal.

Not that it mattered to those involved.

"It was like you?re down at the YMCA playing for pride," said Hornets guard David Wesley, whose team won 114-102 in front of the smallest crowd in franchise history. "It should be that way all the time. But I think sometimes in the league, you get wrapped up in how many fans are there and what the atmosphere is like."

To be sure, oddities abounded Thursday, as if the winter weather?s affect on the crowd wasn?t enough.

In front of a crowd listed at 7,700 ? or more than 1,000 less than the previous low ? the Hornets and Warriors played a game that featured eight individual technical fouls, two ejections after a brief scuffle, Charlotte?s best bench production of the year and Baron Davis? first triple-double of the season.

"It was fun, actually," said Davis, who had 28 poitns, 10 rebounds and 11 assists. "We were into it. The crowd was into it."

Davis wasn?t fibbing.

Although there were only 715 fans by an unofficial press row headcount at game time, the ones who showed up enjoyed themselves immensely.

If they weren?t cheering for fan favorite Robert Traylor, they were reacting to the famous "woo!" of professional wrestler Ric Flair following an in-house commercial featuring him and Davis.

"It was kind of fun in that you could hear everything everybody said," Silas said. "I guess that?s why the referees called a lot of techs because you could hear everything. So it was really a crazy game in that way."

With P.J. Brown twisting his left ankle not to return 7:41 into the game and Wesley, Elden Campbell and Lee Nailon all in foul trouble by late in the second quarter, Silas needed such craziness.

Getting a season-high 52 bench points helped overcome the injury and foul trouble.

Traylor?s production was arguably the biggest, as he filled in primarily for Brown, who Silas said had a mild sprain and is expected to play Saturday when the Hornets host New Jersey at 7:30.

Traylor led the bench brigade with 15 points and six blocked shots before fouling out in the final period.

Traylor?s slam dunk and Davis? 3-pointer in the final 46.9 seconds of the first half gave Charlotte a 64-48 halftime lead ? and had the handful of fans giving the Hornets a standing ovation.

The fans? excitement waned only briefly in the second half as Golden State closed within 72-70 at the 5:40 mark of the third quarter.

But Davis and Wesley sparked an 18-7 surge that ended on rookie Kirk Haston?s buzzer-beating 20-foot jumpshot that sent the Hornets into the final period with a 90-77 lead.

Golden State got no closer than 13 the rest of the way, though the fourth quarter was hardly without incident.

Two minutes into the period, the Warriors? Marc Jackson and Hornets? Jamaal Magloire got entangled underneath the basket and both were ejected.

Magloire?s right arm swung free as broke away from Jackson, though most court observers didn?t think the swing would be construed as a punch by the NBA office. If the league determines a player has thrown a punch, he receives an automatic one-game suspension and $10,000 fine.

"I think he?s OK," Silas said. "They were just tangled up."

The double technicals marked the final two technicals of the game, seven of which being whistled by referee Luis Grillo.

Others receiving technicals were Golden State players Chris Mills and Bob Sura, Golden State coach Phil Hubbard and Charlotte players Campbell, Davis and Traylor.

"They told us not to say much because everybody could hear it," Davis said.