There were 8 minutes and 17 seconds to play in the third quarter of the NBA match against the Sacramento Kings on Thursday, March 13, when the leader of the Golden State Warriors, Stephen Curry, entered, a little more, in the annals of the big North American basketball league. A pass of Moses Moody, then a feint and a dribbling on his left to erase a defender, before the native of Akron (Ohio) registered, in front of his audience, to the Chase Center in San Francisco (California), the 4000e three -point basket in his career. “A historic shoot for a historic player”then ecstasy Kevin Harlan, one of the stars commentators from the TNT diffuser. The Warriors have largely imposed themselves: 130-104.
Stephen Curry was already the best scorer in the history of the NBA in this area: 3,998 awarded shots, far ahead of his dolphins in the standings – the leader of the Los Angeles Clippers, James Harden (3,127), and the former shooter of Milwaukee, Seattle, Boston and Miami, Ray Allen (2,973). On December 14, 2021, on the prosecution of the Madison Square Garden, in New York, he had exceeded the record of Allen, before reaching, two weeks later, the bar of 3,000 three -point baskets, a brand that had long seemed inaccessible.
Establish this new symbolic reference, the day before his birthday – he celebrates his 37 years on March 14 -, ” at home “in front of his fans, was a moment ” special “recognized the interested party. “It was also a weird match, I didn’t take a lot of shots [seulement six trois points tentés] (…)but I felt the energy in the room ”he said.
“I put myself in all my states”
The leader can boast of a crazy average: nearly four three -point baskets per game, in 1,013 games played in the league – counting the one against the Kings. At the beginning of the month, asked about the possibility of reaching the 4,000 awarded shots, Stephen Curry had explained to try to “Do not think about it too much”. “It’s cool that there is this joke, according to which I establish a new record each time I reach a three [points]. But (…) The last time I did it, I put myself in all my states for five games. »»
The three -point basket had been introduced in 1979 by the NBA, and the use of award -winning shooting has largely accelerated over the past ten years, Stephen Curry and his formidable address having contributed to revolutionizing the game – the French, put down in the Olympic final of Paris 2024 by a series of arrows of the American leader, can testify. To the point of imagining it target the 5,000? “Who knows?” I was blessed by God for so many things in my life, but I think of the present “was content to answer the interested party on Thursday to TNT.