Facing the Knicks, in a molten Madison Square Garden, Stephen Curry erased Ray Allen from the shelves, bringing the record for the number of three-pointers in the NBA to 2,977.
His father Dell, a former long-distance shooting specialist, like Ray Allen and Reggie Miller, also a former record holder of the genre, were present.
The leader of the Golden State Warriors (33) has added a new page to his legend already rich in many feats of arms.
There is worse place than Madison Square Garden to write your legend.
On Tuesday, in the New York Knicks, Stephen Curry officially became what he has been in practice for a while: the best three-point shooter in NBA history.
By registering five long-distance shots in the victory of Golden State (96-105), the leader of the Warriors carried the mark to 2.977 in an atmosphere (necessarily) "American", in front of his family and the former recordmen of the specialty, Reggie Miller (2,960) and Ray Allen (2,973).
Allen, the counter blocked since his retirement in 2014, will now gradually shrink in the retro of the triple champion of the League who, at 33, has not finished artillery in all directions.
With his "small" 1.88 m, Curry did not seem left for such a fate.
“During his training, he had to generate enough force and he was pulling from his hip,” decrypts his trainer Steve Kerr, in the
San Francisco Chronicle
.
As he got older, he increased his shot.
"And changed the face of the NBA, where the three-point shoot has taken a huge place (disproportionate, some would say) since its advent.
This photo belongs in the @Hoophall.
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- Golden State Warriors (@warriors) December 15, 2021
The day he started the machine
The third was the correct one. Two days after a first game in the NBA 14 points against the Rockets, but with only one three-point basket attempted (and missed), then after another failure early in the game, Curry slams his first long-distance shot in Phoenix. This October 30, 2009, one minute from the end of the second quarter-time, the 21-year-old kid "entertains" the reference Steve Nash before scoring with style. In the axis, 7.92 m from the basket (the 3-point line in NBA is 7.23 m, and 6.71 m in the corners).
The defeat is wide (123-101) for Steph and his French colleague Ronny Turiaf, but history is on the move.
Local sports commentator Gary Bender, in his mid-seventies, is enthusiastic about "one of the best natural shooters you'll ever see coming out of college."
The former Davidson Wildcats trigger, drafted in 7th place by the Warriors some time ago, is decidedly no ordinary “rookie”.
The day he "missed"
157 consecutive NBA games by scoring at least one three-point basket.
This superhuman series ended on November 4, 2016, during the defeat of Golden State to the Lakers (117-97).
That day, Curry will sign a pitiful 0/10 at long distance.
But what is a champion? Someone who doesn't tear themselves apart twice in a row. Three days after the fiasco, the native of Akron (Ohio), like LeBron James, will investigate 13 during the success over the New Orleans Pelicans (116-106), a record on an NBA game, which will only be beaten by teammate Klay Thompson two years later. Former great player of the years 1980-1990, Mark Price praised the "aptitude [of Curry] to invent shots". “He is able to shoot the same way, wherever he is on the court. "
The day he wowed the world
Difficult to choose so much Curry has been able to show himself spectacular over his already 12 years of career, despite a few injuries that have slowed, but never broken, his momentum. Just last week, Curry sent an incredible midfield shot to the buzzer at the end of the first quarter against Orlando. One of his seven award-winning shots of the evening, rounded off with a large victory (126-95) and 31 personal points.
But we will go back to February 28, 2016 to find even more striking, with this attempt of nearly 10 meters, of absolute purity, 0.6 seconds from the end of extra time during the Warriors' victory in Oklahoma City (118- 121 AD).
That year, the LeBron James Cavs will embed themselves in the NBA charts, in the middle of the three Golden State titles (2015, 2017, 2018).
But Curry will chain a second coronation as MVP, becoming the first player to be unanimously elected by the voters.
The day he "killed the father"
Do you see the Zidane family? Well with the Curries, it's the other way around. The eldest son is better than the father, who was not the first to come. On March 10, 2017, “Baby Face” exceeded 12,670 points registered in the regular phase by the father Dell, former cador of the Charlotte Hornets of the 1990s. On a three-point, during a defeat of the Warriors in Minnesota (103- 102) ...
Dell was also a renowned long-range shooter, as was Steve Kerr, the man with the best practice percentage to date in the NBA (45.4%).
"I think all of the Curries, down the line of Dell, shoot with excellent rhythm and hand-eye coordination," said the Warriors coach.
That's nice to look at.
Two years younger than Stephen, Seth Curry is currently playing for the Philadelphia Sixers.
In the shadow of his “big” brother.
The day he shot from the parking lot
When you're an alien, you don't train like a common human.
On December 5, to warm up in his stronghold at the Chase Center, before the reception of the San Antonio Spurs, Stephen Curry simply shot from the middle of the stands.
Results ?
A perfect "rainbow shot" ... The match, with a clumsy Steph (7/28 shooting, including 5/17 with three points), will not be of the same ilk, but the world will remember the useless feat more than the success of the Spurs (107-112).
The Warriors also shared another mind-boggling moment in December 2020: the 105 three-pointers in a row the franchise star had in practice.
When you are told that this man is an alien.
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