Curry abutting Donyell Marshall and Kobe Bryant as the alone players to accept fabricated 12 three-point shots in a game.He aswell hit the game-winning attempt in overtime, biconcave a three from about bisected cloister to acquire the win.
It wasn't the alone almanac Curry accomplished on the night, as he's aswell now fabricated 288 three-pointers on the season, breaking the mark for three-point shots fabricated in a division he set endure division with 286. The Warriors aswell clinched a playoff anchorage with their 53rd win, the fastest a aggregation has anytime assured a postseason anchorage in NBA history, topping the 1986 Boston Celtics by one day, per Moore.
The Warriors are now an absurd 55-5 on the division and aural arresting ambit of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls almanac of 72 wins in the approved season.
Curry, 27, has been annihilation abbreviate of ablaze in Golden State's celebrated season. He's averaging 30.7 points, 6.6 assists, 5.3 rebounds and 2.1 steals per bold and is already afresh the beloved for the MVP award, an account he won for the aboriginal time endure season.
After the game, his coach, Steve Kerr, compared Curry's drive to the abundant Michael Jordan.
"These guys are absolutely competitive, added so than you'd think," Kerr said of the aggregation and of Curry, per Ethan Sherwood Strauss of ESPN.com. "I mean, you knew it with Jordan, because he played with an anger. Steph plays with joy, so maybe you don't see it as much. Steph central is a killer. Absolutely he is."
Curry, this season, is announcement marks that Jordan himself never matched. And in the process, he's putting calm one of the a lot of amazing seasons in NBA history.
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