It was not his night of greatest inspiration, much less an exhibition, but Stephen Curry reached 4,000 triples in his career in the regular NBA season during the victory of the Golden State Warriors over the Sacramento Kings for 130-104. , with a three shot after a feint and boat that unleashed the madness in the San Francisco Chase Center and disappointed the locals when the rival threatened the comeback. In the photo, Trey Lyles and Demar Droan will remain forever, the two defenders who tried to avoid the inevitable.
“It has been a special moment, especially by being able to celebrate it at home. It has been a curious party, where I have not had many opportunities, but I have felt the energy of the pavilion, ”said Curry. The new triplist plusmarca was its anticipated gift for the age of 37, which it is today. The base and leader of the Warriors dynasty, four times champions in the last decade, finished the evening with 11 points, 2 rebounds, 5 assists, a robbery and a cap, with a series of 4 of 9 in field shots and 2 of 6 from the long distance.
“I never thought of such a number, I didn’t even think it was possible ,. Expanding both the brand goes beyond my wildest dreams, ”developed the player who has inspired the triplist revolution in basketball. “It is an obscene number, difficult to understand, but maybe someone comes and overcome it someday,” said Steve Kerr, team coach and one of the best shooters of three of the 1990s. “It seems that she breaks records every week, and we are accustomed to it, although that does not mean that it is special,” added the technician. The truth is that his pupil beats the record every day that scores a triple, almost 1,000 goals from the next in the list, a James Harden who does not do too far over Ray Allen’s previous plusmarca and accumulates 3,127 triples.
The first triple of Curry’s trajectory arrived on October 30, 2009, during his second match in the League, on the Pass of the Pivot Andris Biedrins. The former 38-year-old player, one of the veterans of that first shooter wardrobe in Golden State, was the main protagonist of the video-host that the franchise prepared for his pupil. That detail did excite the player, who at that time still an esmirried kid with a recurring problem with ankle sprains. The number 30 of the Warriors took five years and three months to reach their first 1,000 triples scored, accelerated in two years and 11 months to 2,000 (January 2015 until December 2017) and took four exact years to reach the absolute record of the competition and the 3,000 in December 2021. These 4,000 arrive, despite the age, in three years and three months.
Of the almost 200 players throughout the story that reached the 2,500 attempts since the long distance, Curry is the third with the best percentage of success, with 42.4% that only exceed Kyle Korver and Steve Nash. Among the multiple triplist records of the prodigy born in Akron (Ohio) are the top of triples scored in a season, the 402 of the 2015-16 campaign, when it became the first NBA MVP of the NBA voted unanimously. In 1,010 matches played in the League, the base has scored at least a shot of three in 967 of them, which represents 95.7% of the time, the best ratio between players who have participated at least 50 times in the competition. He only presents the two best gusts of matches with at least one triple scored: 268 between 2018 and 2023 to overcome his previous 157 mark between 2014 and 2016. The only record that escapes him, for now, is the one with the most triple in a single match ,. Curry has stayed at 13, but you never know while the account continues to increase every time you step on a NBA court.
