NBA All-Star top vote-getter and Golden State’s premier point guard Stephen Curry already made history when he made a total of 284 three-pointers in the just concluded 2014-15 NBA regular season.
He eclipsed his own record of 272 three-pointers which he made during the 2012-13 season. His superb performance from beyond the arc already makes Stephen Curry a prime contender for the MVP honors and his closest competition for the award is Houston Rockets’ James Harden.
As far as Golden State head coach Steve Kerr is concerned, Curry is the MVP and it is no longer a question of why because the answer to the how is already sufficient.
Low percentage shot
The easiest goal to make for an NBA player is either a lay-up or a dunk. The percentages are quite high with those kinds of shot selection. And the lowest percentage shot is no other than the three-point shot since players are pretty much throwing a ball to the hoop from at least 24 feet away.
Apparently, low percentage does not apply in particular to Curry when he’s shooting from beyond the arc.
Accordingly, after a recent Golden State Warriors practice, Curry made 77 consecutive three-pointers during a shooting session, which is by far, the most threes in a row he made in his lifetime, and probably in no other lifetime of any basketball player on earth for that matter. The streak is just too amazing to even think or believe it. But ESPN confirmed that it really happened on April 14, notes Yahoo! Sports.
Ironically, the feat did not come as a surprise to Stephen Curry since according to him, he actually made 94 threes out of 100 shots during the same session.
It has become the norm of Curry to shoot threes after every practice sessions. He rotates around the perimeter as assistant Bruce Fraser feeds him the ball. The All-Star point guard normally takes 10 shots from several spots and often goes around the arc twice just like the NBA three-point shootout although his is four times more shots.
Unbelievable
The other half of the “Splash Brothers,” Klay Thompson thinks that Stephen Curry’s three-point shooting streak of 77 is unbelievable. He said that his own record for three-points made in a row is 36.
Klay Thompson happens to hold the second most number of threes made in the NBA season with 234. Thompson’s personal best record in the NBA is the 37 points he made in one quarter which no other player in the league has accomplished.
With great shooters like Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson around, it is no wonder that the Golden State Warriors made a franchise record of 67 wins this season, tied for the fifth best mark in history, all the way to topping the NBA standings and getting homecourt advantage all throughout the playoffs which begins this weekend.