Inside Stephen Curry’s 3-point record: Highlights, stats and quotes that define his remarkable journey
We’ve known it for quite some time now, but after overtaking Ray Allen to become the NBA’s all-time 3-point lead, no one can deny this simple fact: Stephen Curry is the shooter. greatest in NBA history.
And with all due respect to the all-time 3-point leads before him, none of them can shoot it in as many ways as Curry does.
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On dribbling, off screen or during transitions, contention or no check, from the 3-point line or from the halfcourt symbol, Curry’s superb blend of skill and swagger results in a a steady stream of shots unlike any we’ve ever seen.
Result? An incredibly unlikely journey that seems even more remote considering how it all began.
From a three-star high school player with no major offers to a mid-tier star who has worked tirelessly to become an NBA prospect, Curry is still awash with skeptics who don’t believe he has the potential. can be successful at the NBA level.
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He was fielded six times before being selected as a 7th overall in the 2009 NBA Draft, two of which were players in his same position. He was deemed too small or his game wouldn’t make it to the NBA, a pair of predictions that were bound to be wrong in the end.
Turns out, he didn’t need his game to go to NBA level because it would change the way basketball is played forever.
In a tournament long dominated by big guys and big wings, Curry’s small stature and sublime 3-pointers changed everything. From the driveway to the gym, the office to the war room, Inside the NBA to #NBATwitter, Curry has not only changed the way we think and talk about basketball, he’s made the entire league what it is. a positionless, fast-paced, perimeter-oriented game we see today.
We already knew who he was going to be when he lost 54 points at Madison Square Garden in 2013, leaving all New York fans regretting their franchise for delivering a killer. The player has a childish face.
We realized that “this is going to really work” as we watched him hit a record 286 3s en route to winning MVP and his first NBA title in 2015.
And we realized that the rest of the tournament was in big trouble when he became the first unanimous MVP, sending the Warriors to the best record in NBA history (73-9) in 2016.
It was during that season when Curry began to be considered the greatest shooter the game had ever seen, taking down 402 3s to become the first player to hit 300 or 400 seconds in one section.
As mentioned above, there have been other all-time 3-point kings, but there’s never been one like Curry, a fact acknowledged by the very marksmen he’s crossed on his “bending” path. bent knee” for Curry’s reign as the 3rd point shot king.
At 2,974 3-point lines (and continuing to rise), Curry isn’t chasing history anymore – he’s making history.
Of course, Curry is no stranger to rewriting the record books.
And his list of records doesn’t stop there either. Curry also holds all of these below, most of which can also never break:
- Most 3 pointers per game in NBA history: 3.8
- Most 3-pointers in NBA Playoffs history: 470
- Most 3-pointer throws are taken in an NBA Playoffs round: 98, 2015 (draw with Klay Thompson, 2016)
- Most 3-pointers in NBA Finals history: 121
- Most 3 pointers taken in an NBA Finals game: 9 (Match 2, 2018)
- Most games with 50 points and 10 points or more 3 in NBA history: 7
- Most seasons have more than 200 3 players in NBA history: 8
- Most 3-pointers made in a calendar month in NBA history: 96 (April 2021)
- Most triples made in a calendar year in NBA history: 440 (in 2021)
- Fewest games played to hit 2,000 plays 3 seconds: 597
- Highest average in NBA history by a player who shot 50-40-90 in a single season: 30.1
Remarkable.
Unbelievable.
Undeniable.
Congratulations to the newly minted 3 point king.
