Stephen Curry sets new NBA record, hits 3 in 128th straight game
Stephen Curry added another NBA record to his impressive resume on Thursday night when he made a 3-pointer for the 128th consecutive game, the longest such streak in NBA history.
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The reigning NBA Most Valuable Player got his business out of the way early, knocking down a left-wing triple with 5:45 remaining in the first quarter of the Golden State Warriors’ road visit to Amway Center to take on the Orlando Magic:
Curry tied the record, set by Atlanta Hawks sharpshooter Kyle Korver between November 2012 and March 2014, during Wednesday’s win over the Miami Heat. Korver broke the record in December 2013, surpassing former Philadelphia 76ers and Boston Celtics guard Dana Barros’ mark of a made 3-pointer in 89 consecutive games between 1994 and 1996. Korver passed Barros and kept going for 37 more games; with the way Steph’s going — he entered Thursday’s play ranked third in the league in 3-point accuracy this season, making 45.6 percent from deep, a marked improvement from his second-best-all-time career average of 44.3 percent — we could be in for a similar sort of streak-extension.
Curry now owns the record for longest streak of game with a made triple, most 3-pointers made in a single regular season (which, health permitting, he’s absolutely going to smash again before season’s end) and most 3s made in a single postseason. He has, on two occasions, come within one make of tying the all-time record for most made 3s in a single game, and after seven seasons, he’s already in the top 25 in most made 3-pointers ever. With 30 more makes, he’ll be more than halfway to Ray Allen’s all-time record of 2,973, and, at this point, it seems less a matter of whether he’ll get there than of merely how quickly.
If he keeps going at this rate, every 3-point record on the books will belong to Stephen Curry before all’s said and done … unless, of course, noted forward-thinker Byron Scott gets his way and the NBA institutes a 4-point line, giving the best shooter we’ve ever seen a new gang of records to set.
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