#Steph curry stats all star series#

All the history of our series (Cavs-Warriors) and the Akron ties, all that kind of going into it. “I got the MVP and played well the whole night.

“I told him on the court after the game it was kind of a perfect ending,” Curry said. LeBron’s team needed to score 25 points in the final frame to win while Kevin Durant’s team needed 24. His winning basket didn’t beat a buzzer for the third consecutive year the All-Star game adopted “Elam scoring” in the fourth quarter. He is also 5-0 as an All-Star team captain. James tied Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the NBA record with 18 All-Star Games. “He literally has an automatic sniper connected to his arm, and when he lets it go, not only himself, but everybody on the floor, in the stands, on TV, on their phones, whatever you are watching on, you think it’s going in every time.” “I mean, Steph, come on, man - this guy is from a different planet,” James said. Curry could’ve obliterated the scoring record and added to the 3s, but he was just 1 of 6 in the last quarter. Curry’s 16 3s aren’t just an All-Star record they are more than the 14 3s his Warriors teammate Klay Thompson made to set the league’s record in a regular game. LeBron was serenaded with cheers for his 11 glorious seasons in Cleveland, with a few boos for ditching the team twice.īoth Curry and James are a part of the NBA’s 75th-anniversary team, which was honored at halftime Sunday. “I could not have dreamed of that moment any better than the actuality that just happened.” “I couldn’t have dreamt it,” James said of the shot. James, the Lakers star who on Saturday told The Athletic he would not rule out a third term with the Cavaliers, scored 24 points, including a turnaround fadeaway jumper (inspired by Michael Jordan, who was in the arena) for the win. Stephen Curry, born three years after LeBron James in the same Akron hospital, was two points shy of the All-Star scoring record and made the most 3-pointers in any game in history, while LeBron drilled the winning basket in a 163-160 win for Team LeBron over Team Durant in the 71st NBA All-Star Game.Ĭurry, who is loathed in Cleveland because of those three titles he won over the Cavaliers with the Golden State Warriors and booed as he was introduced, was the game’s MVP, finishing with 50 points on 16-of-27 3-pointers. Steph's greatness, while not as overpowering as LeBron's or deep in its breadth, nonetheless synthesizes rare talent into championships while defining a long span of the game.A kid from Akron was destined to shine at the All-Star Game up the road in Cleveland. He, like Jordan, has defined a generation of the sport and called forth a new generation crafted in his image - imitators of not his skill but of how he's changed the game. He's the greatest shooter of all time, a fact he set on Tuesday against the New York Knicks at the Garden.

He could end his career as the NBA's all-time scoring leader and as the game's third- or fourth-best ever on the all-time assist list, to name a few.īut Steph has his own unique Mount Rushmore resume, one currently incomplete for a top-five all-time player but certainly within reach. LeBron is, put simply, shockingly talented and accomplished in almost every way a basketball player can be. He does not match LeBron James for sheer physicality or a host of other on-court measurements of greatness. Think Isiah Thomas sandwiched between Larry Bird-Magic Johnson on one side and Michael Jordan on the other. Think Tim Duncan aside Kobe Bryant for most of their careers.

Sometimes one star's greatness can be unfairly dimmed in the light of another all-time great. Five years ago, in the midst of his run of back-to-back MVPs, more than a few handlers of NBA stars would happily order another drink if you'd humor them on the supposed overrated-reality of Curry. This opportunity is nothing less than a shot at solidifying himself as one of the five greatest players of all time.Ĭurry does not fit the mold of an all-timer, and that has always been both part of his appeal with fans and part of the at-times (if now mostly expired) soft criticism from his contemporaries. There were stories about the highlights and, naturally, the added praise, applause and appropriate focus on this monumental accomplishment, and on Curry's stunning, still-running career.īut in front of Steph and still within his grasp - stretching before him this season and likely in the seasons to come, past this singular achievement - is a chance to do more than passing Ray Allen for the NBA's 3-point record. 2,974 - made him statistically what he already is in fact: The greatest shooter in the game's history. Tuesday night, Stephen Curry drained yet another 3-point shot in a career defined by them.

Steph curry stats all star