Stephen Curry

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Lore & Background

Curry is a four-time NBA champion, a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), an NBA Finals MVP, and a two-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 two gold medals at the FIBA World Cup 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 arena hums with a low-frequency tension, the kind that precedes a storm. The clock ticks down under thirty seconds, the score tied. Opposing defenders sag off, terrified to give him an inch of space, yet knowing they can't guard the three-point line either. Curry dribbles past half-court, the leather squeaking against the hardwood in a rhythmic cadence. He pulls up from well beyond the logo, his form a blur of motion—elbow tucked, wrist snapping with surgical precision. The ball arcs high, silhouetted against the arena lights, hanging for a heartbeat before swishing through the net, echoing louder than the roar that immediately follows.

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. Curry has the highest career free-throw percentage in NBA history (.912) and has led the league in three-pointers made a record eight 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.

Did You Know?

• Curry was born on March 14, 1988, at Summa Health Akron Campus in downtown Akron, Ohio.
• His father, Dell Curry, was a professional basketball player, and his mother, Sonya Curry, is an educator and author.
• He played with his younger brother Seth on their backyard basketball court in Charlotte, North Carolina.
• During a brief move to Toronto, Canada, Curry played for Queensway Christian College boys' basketball team, leading them to an undefeated season.
• In his sophomore season at Davidson, Curry set the NCAA single-season record for three-pointers made with 162.