Stephen Curry Era

Lore & Background

Curry is a four-time NBA champion, a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), an NBA Finals MVP, and a one-time NBA All-Star Game MVP. He is also a two-time NBA scoring champion, a 12-time NBA All-Star, and an 11-time All-NBA Team selection (including four on the First Team). Internationally, he has won a gold medal at the FIBA World Cup (2010) and a gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics as part of the U.S. national team. Curry played collegiately for the Davidson Wildcats, where he was named Conference Player of the Year twice. He set the NCAA single-season record for three-pointers made (162) as a sophomore and led the NCAA Division I in scoring during his junior year. Curry was selected by the Warriors as the seventh overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft.

In Their Own Story

The Oracle Arena air hummed with a tension that felt physical, a thick static waiting for release. It was Game 6 of the 2016 Finals. The scoreboard glowed red, reflecting in the sweat on Curry's brow as he stood at the top of the key. He didn't look at the rim; he looked through it. The defender, desperate and heavy-footed, overplayed the drive, leaving a sliver of daylight that only a man who could shoot from the logo would dare to exploit. Curry gathered the ball, his movement a blur of efficiency. One dribble left, a hesitation that froze the world for a microsecond, then an explosion upward. The release was pure mechanics, a high arc that seemed to hang in the rafters forever. As the net snapped with a sound like a whip crack, the arena didn't just cheer; it erupted into a singular, deafening roar of disbelief and joy. In that moment, the court ceased to be wood and became a stage for history, where the impossible had just been executed with terrifying ease.

Reader's Guide

In 2014–15, Curry won his first league MVP award and led the Warriors to their first championship since 1975. The following season, he became the first player to be unanimously voted MVP and to lead the league in scoring while shooting above 50–40–90. That same year, the Warriors broke the record for most wins in a regular season (73) en route to the 2016 NBA Finals, where they lost a 3–1 series lead to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Curry then helped the Warriors win back-to-back titles in 2017 and 2018, and reach the 2019 NBA Finals, where they fell to the Toronto Raptors in six games. In 2021, Curry led the league in scoring for a second time. The following season Curry won his fourth championship and first Finals MVP award in 2022, leading the Warriors past the Boston Celtics in six games. That same season, he became the NBA's all-time leader in three-pointers made, surpassing Ray Allen.

Did You Know?

• Curry has the highest career free-throw percentage in NBA history (.912) and has led the league in three-pointers made a record seven times.
• In 2016, he broke his own record for three-pointers made in a regular season, with 402, and made at least one three-pointer in an NBA-record 268 consecutive games from 2018 to 2023.
• Curry was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world in 2016 and has been listed by Forbes as one of the world's ten highest-paid athletes nine times.