‘MVP, MVP’ – Brooklyn crowd pours rain and chants MVP for Warriors star Steph Curry

A friendly schedule, along with playing eight games, helped the Golden State Warriors start the season with a score of 11-2.

In their opening two games of 2021-22, they beat the Los Angeles Lakers and LA Clippers, with a recent win over the Chicago Bulls being their only real test of the season, so tonight’s game against the Brooklyn Nets rated as a ‘Are Warriors Really Good?’ game.

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Well, after 48 minutes at the Barclays Center, the Warriors were more than question-answered, coming to a 117-99 win over the Nets, following another strong performance from Stephen Curry.

Curry ignited the Nets with 37 points, seven rebounds, five assists and two steals on a ruthlessly efficient 12-19 shot from the field and 9 of 14 from the 3-point line – his fifth game of the season This prize is 7+ times done by three people. He had three games with more than 40 points during the season.

Tonight also marks the 37th game of his career with 9 or more 3 points – No other player in NBA history has more than 10.

Entering the season, Curry has fifth best odds to win MVP, behind Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid and Luka Doncic favorites and this week we have Curry at No. Sporting News MVP ladder after the first month of the game.

After tonight’s performance against Kevin Durant, who we already have in 2nd place on Ladder, Curry has only cemented his place as the earliest favorite to win the award.

Before kick-off, Warriors coach Steve Kerr said the race so far has definitely been between former teammates. “Yes, without a doubt, for me, they are the two best players in the league so far,” he said of Curry and Durant, who finished with 19 points in the 9/19 shootout tonight. .

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Even the Barclays Center crowd rained down MVP songs while Curry was at the free-throw line early in the second half.

The 33-year-old won multiple consecutive MVPs in 2014-15 and 2015-16 with his second becoming the only player in NBA history to ever win the award by a unanimous vote. Last season, despite the Warriors finishing ninth in the Western Conference (39-33) and being knocked out of the Live Tournament, missing out after the season, Curry finished third on voting behind Joel Embiid and the eventual winner. Nikola Jokic after leading the league scoring 32.0 points per game.

The Warriors currently hold the league’s best 12-2 record to top the Western Conference, with Curry scoring 28.7 points, 6.6 assists, 6.3 rebounds and 1.7 steals per game in 14 games. first of the season, while taking down 40.6%. out of my three attempts with 13.4 attempts a night.

The third MVP title would make Curry the 9th player to ever win 3 or more MVP titles, along with Magic Johnson (3), Larry Bird (3), Moses Malone (3), LeBron James (4), Wilt Chamberlain (4), Michael Jordan (5), Bill Russell (5) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (6).

It’s still very early in the season to hand out the titles, but Curry is doing his best to separate himself from the group.