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Stephen Curry has 180 points through the first six games of a season, the most by a player aged 37 or older, passing Karl Malone (169 in 2000-01). He got there against the Suns.
Carson Breber: No 38-year-old point guard has ever even averaged 12 PPG in a season. 38-year-old Steph Curry is currently averaging 30.0 PPG (in 28.8 MPG) on 68.8% TS. He’s been a Top 3 player so far this season. Do not take for granted the absurdity of what he’s doing.
Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was ejected in the third quarter of Monday’s 116-113 win over the Phoenix Suns after an incident involving the Suns’ Dillon Brooks and Khaman Maluach. With 10 minutes left in the quarter, Green collided with Maluach and went to the ground. Green got up and pushed the Phoenix big man to the floor, immediately getting whistled for a technical. Green then got into an argument with Brooks and was assessed another technical foul upon a video review, which also resulted in a technical on Brooks. “He lit a fire in all of us and we had to respond,” Warriors star Stephen Curry said after the game. “So I’m glad we did. It was a combination of that moment and we got to have our brother’s back when he defends us. But it was also this is one of those games, most of the guys are on a back to back. Phoenix had been off for a couple days … definitely that moment kept us in the moment.”
NBA Communications: Other nominees... West: Darius Acuff Jr. (SAC), Stephen Curry (GSW), Luka Dončić (LAL) and Cooper Flagg (DAL) East: Giannis Antetokounmpo (MIA), Scottie Barnes (TOR), Tyrese Maxey (PHI) and Evan Mobley (CLE)
Luka Doncic might never live down what Steph Curry did to him last night. Curry broke Doncic’s ankles and sent him sprawling to the ground before draining a three-pointer during the Golden State Warriors’ 112-95 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Plenty of people have trolled Dončić about this. But an Instagram post Jimmy Butler made on Saturday takes the cake. Butler posted an AI video where Curry’s likeness is Bruce Leroy (played by Taimak) in the 1985 martial arts film The Last Dragon. Curry is then asked, “Alright Leroy, who’s the one-and-only Master?” and responds, “I am!”
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Elly De La Cruz celebrates Stephen Curry crossing up Luka Doncic in Warriors' win over Lakers Dodgers fans would love having Elly De La Cruz in their infield. That is, unless they’re also Lakers fans. De La Cruz posted multiple clips celebrating the Warriors’ win over the Lakers to his Instagram Story. Specifically, the 24-year-old was posting about when Steph Curry crossed up Luka Doncic, causing the Lakers star guard to fall. De La Cruz has been outspoken about his Curry admiration, saying multiple times over the years that Curry is his favorite NBA player.
Another night, another milestone for Stephen Curry. The Golden State Warriors superstar moved up the all-time scoring list, passing a Hall-of-Famer Dominque Wilkins, while leading the Warriors with 31 points Friday night in their 112-95 win over the Lakers. Will Richard freed up Curry with a hard screen of Matisse Thybulle about four minutes into the fourth quarter, Curry received a pass from Draymond Green and buried a wide-open triple.
The signature play of the night came with 6:27 left in the third quarter. The Warriors spent much of the second half hunting Luka Doncic on defense, lining up screens to get him switched onto Stephen Curry. Stephen Curry had Doncic isolated on the left wing and went through a dribble combination that sent Doncic into a misstep, causing him to tumble onto the hardwood as the fans rose. Curry paused for a second, looked at Doncic, swished a 3, and then grabbed his face in celebration. Curry later told the Amazon Prime postgame crew that he "didn't expect it to get that nasty." "There were people on the bench calling him a sicko," Lendeborg said. "I don't even know. It was astonishing."
Steph Curry on dropping Luka Doncic: “You know matchups, you’re just trying to get a little bit of space. I didn’t expect it to get that nasty, but it was one of those. You got to kinda keep your composure. And I remember Harden had to do like, the shimmy, to get himself going back in the day. I don’t know. I haven’t been that open in a long time.”
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“What I would tell him all the time is like, ‘You gotta do some of the things that you don’t want to do to do the things that you want to do,’” Warriors assistant Kris Weems told the Chronicle in October. “And I don’t think he really understood that. Steve wasn’t necessarily — he was asking, like, run the floor, get to the corner, and everything. But JK wasn’t always absorbing how important playing off the ball was for us. “Like, Wiggs figured it out, even though Wiggs didn’t always understand why he was in certain places,” Weems continued, reflecting on former Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins. “But he started to figure out the pin-ins, and how to be able to attack, using (Stephen Curry) as the decoy. JK just was like, ‘Just give me the ball, man.’”
Draymond Green doesn’t believe this will be the end of his run. But he’s been around the NBA long enough to know nothing is certain. “I don’t,” he said after pondering the thought for a moment. “But I can never be too sure. But who cares? I don’t give a s—.” While Green isn’t dwelling on the possibility of an ending, Stephen Curry acknowledges that it’s impossible to ignore. “You acknowledge that this will end at some point,” Curry said. “Of course, you have it in the back of your mind because you know that there aren’t that many years ahead. “But we’re mature enough to know you can stay in the moment and just enjoy what we’re doing, what we’re trying to build and whatever happens, however it plays out, this is kind of inevitable. We’re close to the end, and that’s just part of it, so you can have it both ways. The thoughts of the end only make the urgency now more real and more motivating, if you will, because that’s all we can control.”
“My thought for the last three years or so has been this could be it,” Kerr said. “Because you just don’t know. You never know in the NBA. But particularly where we are as an organization. So I enjoy every second with these guys. What they do together, what we’ve accomplished together, it would be a shame not to savor it all.” Whatever the future holds, Stephen Curry and Draymond Green still have a shared understanding on the court that few teammates can match. Green describes their communication as “telepathic.” While he believes any pair of teammates can start to develop their own language within a year, what he and Curry have has taken 14 seasons to master. “Most people can speak, like, a different sentence in a different language,” Green said. “We can speak an entirely different language.”
