Steph Curry

We've all heard the narratives. Curry only won in 2015 because Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were hurt. Then he blew a 3-1 lead. Then he needed Kevin Durant for ...

Where I was wrong, pretty clearly, was in jumping to a conclusion that Curry isn't quite the same player anymore. When Curry says he'll have a hard time figuring out what the critics are going to say now, what he's saying is he knows there will be something. That's got to be one of the worst takes ever. If by some miracle Curry ever saw one of these tweets or read one of my headlines in which I spoke of this so-called drop-off, and it fueled him to play like this in the Finals, hey, I'm happy to have done my part 😂. There has to be something. That said, I have been critical of Curry at points, particularly this season, which was the worst shooting campaign of his career by a wide margin. Though I never would've questioned his place among the all-timers, I thought Curry was starting to slip. I grew up with the Warriors. It has driven me nothing short of crazy over the years to hear people trying, in any way they can, to diminish Curry as an all-time great. I have a hard time figuring out what they're going to say now, so this is pretty special." Man, that's a tough one to swallow. Even after what he just did in these Finals, I saw a couple of tweets saying he's still a "system player." "I hear all the narratives," Curry said.

For sure. You bookend it,” Curry told Yahoo Sports when asked if he wanted to do it without his former teammate, Kevin Durant.

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So when several ESPN analysts predicted last August that Curry wouldn't win another NBA championship during the life of his new $215 million contract extension, ...

So we hear all that, and you carry it all and you try to maintain your purpose, not let it distract you, but you carry that weight and to get here, it all comes out. "And you get goosebumps just thinking about, you know, all those snapshots and episodes that we went through to get back here, individually, collectively. That's why I have so many emotions, and still will, just because of what it took to get back here.

The Boston Celtics took Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry out of Game 6 early, but Curry's resolve resulted in an NBA Finals masterpiece.

He gave the sad crowd the “Put a ring on this finger” gesture, then went to his patented “Goodnight” hand gesture. It takes a fabulous memory to recall when Curry didn’t want to be a Warrior, when he refused to work out for the team before the draft. And then, when it was over, the world’s coolest dude turned into a big crybaby. He pulled the whole organization up into the stratosphere, then he was the wind beneath the team’s wings. Along the way he decided to make himself the best-conditioned athlete in the league, and the sport’s No. 1 role model. This is the guy who went into a mysterious shooting slump over the second half of the season. “He never shows too much emotion, he absorbs what’s happening on the floor, kind of deciphers it and figures out ways to attack it. “He just absorbs it,” head coach Steve Kerr said before the game, when asked how Curry reacts to a stifling defense. He was voted the Finals MVP, of course. With five minutes left in the quarter Curry finally got off a 3, but it was well-guarded and wild. The Warriors had climbed out of a 14-2 hole to lead by 15. They went at him with the league’s Defensive Player of the Year, Marcus Smart, and a hard-eyed posse.

Steph Curry has spoken about an emotional moment he shared with his father, following the Golden State Warrior's NBA Championship victory on Thursday night.

“I’m so proud of our group,” he said. It’s very surreal. After winning back-to-back NBA titles in 2017 and 2018, the Warriors lost the 2019 Finals to the Toronto Raptors. They then failed to make the play-offs in each of the subsequent two Covid-affected seasons. “He’s just proud,” Steph explained afterwards. It’s amazing. “He played six years in the league and we get to share all of these experiences together, so he was just proud of me.”

Four N.B.A. championships. Two Most Valuable Player Awards. And yes, a finals M.V.P. Golden State's Curry has nothing else to prove.

The second was that he had not been named a finals M.V.P. Standing alone at midcourt, Curry seemed to be laughing and crying at the same time, a euphoric mix of feelings. The first was that he had neither helped his team win a title without Kevin Durant nor defeated a finals opponent who was at full strength. Curry missed the final 12 games of the regular season with a sprained left foot, then aggravated the injury in Game 3 of the finals. He chomped on a victory cigar as he held his finals M.V.P. trophy aloft, pushing it skyward once, twice, three times. All he did in Game 4 was score 43 points to help Golden State even the series at two games apiece. The way he stretches the court with his interplanetary shooting. The Warriors scuffled through a slow rebuild. BOSTON — A few seconds remained in Stephen Curry’s N.B.A. season when he spotted his father, Dell, sitting along one of the baselines. He also recalled the exact moment he started preparing for the start of this season — 371 days ago. “Everybody wants to shoot 3s, and I’m like: ‘Man, you got to work a little harder to shoot like him. For the series, Curry averaged 31.2 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists while shooting 48.2 percent from the field and 43.7 percent from 3-point range.

Curry joins the likes of LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal with his fourth ring.

Myers believed that as long as the Warriors had Curry they had what it took to win another title without compromising the future, and he was right. Curry is 34 years old and you have to wonder if he's got another five LeBron-like years in him, where age doesn't seem to have nearly the same impact it does on most. If Kevin Durant doesn't go down in 2019, if Draymond Green doesn't get suspended in 2016, Curry probably has at least five titles in these eight years, and very possibly six, with a record-breaking 73-win season on the card as well. The best player on one of the greatest dynasties in sports history. That makes him the first player in NBA history to make at least five 3-pointers in five games of a single Finals series. Steph is one of the all-timers. He's also one of just five players to win multiple regular-season MVPs, multiple scoring titles and Finals MVP, and he's just the third guard in history to average at least 30 points in two separate Finals. We're running out of room on a resume that is becoming pretty tough to keep out of any all-time-great conversation worth its salt. He's the guy that keeps everyone together in the locker room, the selfless star who plays without the ball and makes room for others to shine. The rare superstar blend of humility and downright arrogant confidence in his own abilities that, as Steve Kerr told Scott Van Pelt after the win, "makes everyone in the locker room want to fight for him." Like Kerr said, credit to Myers for pulling all the right roster strings, and for not pulling a few others that plenty of people thought he should've pulled. Besides that LeBron needed Wade and Chris Bosh, Shaq needed Kobe and Wade, Magic needed Kareem. That's how it works, particularly with the depth of talent that exists in the modern NBA. Nobody does it alone. First of all, Curry won a title before Durant and now he has won one after him.

Steph Curry drew inspiration from Aaron Donald with his "ring me" celebration during the Warriors' win over the Celtics.

Everyone on Twitter immediately compared the celebration to Aaron Donald’s “ring me” gesture at the end of Super Bowl LVI, and Curry admitted that’s where he got it from. Steph Curry was obviously watching the Los Angeles Rams’ Super Bowl win back in February because he drew some inspiration from Aaron Donald on Thursday night. It might’ve been a little early, but I felt it.”

NBA Finals: how many rings do Steph Curry, LeBron James and Michael Jordan have - who has most Championships? After winning the NBA Championships, Stephen Curry ...

Shaquille O’Neal has four rings, three of which he won with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2000, 2001 and 2002 and one with Miami Heat in 2006. Dennis Rodman has five rings - three of which he bagged with the Chicago Bulls alongside Jordan and Pippen in 1996, 1997 and 1998, and the other two when he played with the Detroit Pistons in 1989 and 1990. He was a five time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) recipient, a 12 time NBA All-Star and in 2009 the NBA renamed its NBA Finals’ Most Valuable Player trophy to the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award.

Steph Curry made the number 30 famous at Davidson, but the number wasn't retired because of a Davidson policy. Now, due to Curry's graduation, it will be.

At Davidson, Curry was a lightly-recruited player known as the son of former Charlotte Hornet Dell Curry who blossomed into a star. He is a multi-millionaire, and yet he still takes the time to finish his education.” But the door opened when Curry graduated in May 2022, 13 years after he skipped his senior year at Davidson to join the NBA one year early.

Steph Curry kept receipts from all of his haters.

The "Ayesha Curry can't cook" comments weren't the only dig that Steph Curry helped to turn around and fire back at Celtics fans. Curry strongly disagreed that the Warriors' victory was a "checkbook win." "Like, yeah, because it starts with the core group of champions and bona fide winners and the belief that we can run it back. Windhorst was discussing the Warriors' choice to keep Andrew Wiggins after acquiring him in the D'Angelo Russell deal and how that impacted the team. "I heard somebody talking about some ... was it, 'checkbook wins' and all this other stuff," Curry said after the game. "The fact that when we started this season, the conversations about who we were as a team and what we were capable of, clearly remember some experts and talking heads putting up the big zero of how many championships we would have going forward because of everything that we went through," Curry said. It matched the symbol held up by two analysts on ESPN's "First Take" to a tee. So too was Ayesha Curry's postgame tweet about "tonight's menu," which featured within it Curry GOAT. After Curry helped lead the Warriors to their fourth championship in the last eight years with a 103-90 Game 6 win over the Celtics, he was overcome with emotion. "And you get goosebumps just thinking about, you know, all those snapshots and episodes that we went through to get back here, individually, collectively. Indeed, Curry proved that he heard the doubters loud and clear. I have a hard time figuring out what they're going to say now, so this is pretty special."

Curry is an avid golfer (with a playing handicap of +2.2) and numbers many PGA Tour players among his friends, including Rory McIlroy. He has even played in a ...

At one stage of his round, Hovland ran up six consecutive bogeys, from the 17th to the fourth. Nobody has a goal of just making the cut or anything like that” – Brooks Koepka who followed up his opening 73 with a 67 to get back to level-par 140 and back in the hunt for a fifth career Major. Most unusual shot of the championship so far?

In the third quarter, Curry hit another huge three and gave Boston fans an early sign that the game was over. The Splash Brother nailed a deep three then ...

He also picked up seven rebounds and dished out seven assists in the Warriors’ closeout win over the Celtics. Curry and the Warriors clinched their fourth championship in eight seasons, and the “night night” celebration likely won’t be the only one of the night. After nailing a 3-point dagger in the closing minutes of Game 6 of the NBA Finals, the Warriors superstar hit his signature “night-night” celebration in front of a silenced TD Garden crowd.

After clinching the NBA Finals Thursday night — and winning his first-ever Finals MVP in the process — Curry made sure to use his knowledge of "everything" to ...

"And then you get here and it all comes out." Curry said that he and his teammates used all of the slights through the year as fuel. "I heard somebody talking about 'checkbook wins' and all this other stuff," Curry said in a postgame interview.

Steph Curry had the last word on Thursday night after the Warriors beat the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.

But Curry didn’t necessarily have to post those photos to get his message across after finishing Game 6 with 34 points with six 3-pointers, seven assists and seven rebounds. Curry told reporters on Wednesday that he enjoyed the Boston barbs. First, Curry took to Twitter with his signature “night night” pose and put the Celtics to bed one final time -- a post that has garnered nearly one million likes.

Put the debate to rest: Steph Curry is officially one of the 10 greatest players ever, Chris Broussard says. Here's why.

National Basketball Association National Basketball Association "He has revolutionized the game in the regular season. Curry's top 10 status is not the consensus quite yet. "[Curry] is playing in the LeBron James era and he's got four rings. "If it was a checklist of skills, Aaron Rodgers would be better than Tom Brady. …. It's not who's gonna win a game of one-on-one.

The bar displayed a sign earlier in the NBA Finals that read, "Ayesha Curry can't cook"

It's unclear if Curry himself knows his way around the kitchen, but he is definitely a chef on the basketball court. Curry's T-shirt wasn't the only shoutout to his doubters. Steph Curry earned his fourth NBA title by leading his Golden State Warriors back from a 2-1 deficit to defeat the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals. It turns out Curry had another comeback in him.

The Warriors never forgot what everyone said about them before they won their fourth title in seven years.

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Indiana Pacers legend Reggie Miller, part of the NBA's 75-year team, didn't put himself among the 10 best players.

What does a fourth title and first Finals MVP mean for Stephen Curry's standing among the NBA's all-time greats?

He’s aged very well and his game and conditioning should allow him to continue that trend, but if he plays at an All-Star level for a few more years, it’ll be tough to contest that he’s the greatest point guard of all time. Rob Peterson: If you’re close to the top 10 or in some people’s top 10, I think you’re already in the GOAT convo. But as a top-10 player (in my opinion) all time, he’s already in the discussion. Damon Sayles: Michael Jordan is the GOAT, in my opinion, and it will take a TON for me to change my mind. Also, I think Luka Doncić should probably be in the 75 based on talent alone and his ability to affect games. I had Giannis Antetokounmpo in my top 20 (at No. 20), and he’s No. 24 on our list. He is the omission from our list and from the NBA’s list. I’d love to place Giannis Antetokounmpo higher, but it’s really hard to jump him above Elgin Baylor considering the way the latter was the original version of many of the future high-flyers on the list – Giannis included. Jon Greenberg: Man, it wasn’t a great season for a lot of the active members of the top 75 list, was it? Curry is the greatest shooter in NBA history, one of the greatest players in terms of gravity and one of the few in history (George Mikan, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar, Elgin Baylor, Dr. J and Magic Johnson) who can lay claim to changing how the game is played. I think he has a stronger argument now than he did a year ago, but the bulk of that argument is from 2015 to 2020 either way. I don’t want to be a prisoner of the moment.

Fresh off Steph Curry winning NBA Finals MVP, Davidson announced it will retire his No. 30 jersey and induct him into the school's Hall of Fame.

Curry completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology to join the Davidson College class of 2022. In his three seasons at Davidson, Curry became the university's all-time leading scorer with 2,635 points and is the the Southern Conference's all-time leading scorer. Director of Athletics Chris Clunie said in a news release following the announcement on Friday.

Steph Curry was given a warm welcome to the exclusive NBA club.

And he graduated college, an achievement Ayesha Curry doesn't want the world to forget. It has been a journey for sure, but to look at that list and realize only one other player is still playing in the NBA is absurd to think about what Curry could still accomplish. And in doing so, he joined some ultra-elite company in the process.

Stephen Curry's Finals MVP award-winning impact extended deep into the statistical realm. Here are five key numbers to know.

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After drilling a clutch 3-pointer in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, Steph Curry celebrated by pointing at his ring finger.

Then, following one of his 3-pointers, Curry broke out a new celebration. With six minutes remaining in the third quarter, Curry pulled up from deep to drill a long ball that gave the Warriors a 22-point advantage over the Celtics. Curry capped a run of three straight made 3-pointers from the Warriors in the third quarter. On the way to winning his fourth NBA championship and first career NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award, Curry tallied a team-high 34 points on 12-of-21 shooting from the field with seven rebounds and seven assists in Golden State’s title-clinching victory in Game 6.

He won Finals MVP, WCF MVP, All-Star MVP, and broke the league record for most 3PM (3,117). Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports.

And when Golden State was crowned champions, again, on Thursday night following a Game 6 win over the Boston Celtics at TD Garden, Jackson couldn't help but ...

“If I was Steph Curry I would thank Boston’s defense for the MVP,” Jackson said. But Jackson, who was one of the 11 media members to vote for Curry as Finals MVP, believes the now four-time NBA champ should extend his gratitude elsewhere. Steph Curry was named the unanimous Finals MVP after leading his team to their fourth title in eight years, thanking his family, coaches and teammates for their support along the way.

For decades, San Francisco 49ers legend Joe Montana was considered the greatest athlete in Bay Area's history. Now, it's Warriors star Stephen Curry.

Curry has vocal fans in every arena in the association. Curry has made the world move. Curry’s popularity stretches far beyond the Bay Area. Montana’s did too, but it was a different era in terms of the reach of sports and the NFL is a different, American-centered league. But mostly, he has made the Bay Area move. But Montana was the answer that stood the test of time. Montana was the coolest of all time. Montana was the greatest of all time. He has revolutionized the sport. If you want you can list them as 1 and 1A But Montana hasn’t played in the Bay Area for 30 years. Willie Mays? The greatest baseball player in history is top three but he came from New York and never delivered a championship to San Francisco. Willie McCovey was the most beloved for a long time. For a few years, Tim Lincecum was wildly popular, but he didn’t have the staying power to be etched in stone. The Bay Area’s best?

Down 2-1, with the Boston crowd howling and baying, Stephen Curry painted his Mona Lisa.

Steph's legacy is already cemented, in terms of what he's done for the game, how he's improved the game, and what he's done making all the kids want to play the game (the way he does). He's pushed the game forward." In the two seasons that he missed, the Warriors went 54-83, including missing the playoffs for the first time since 2012. Not content with remaining in one position on the floor, Curry can often been spotted sprinting around without the ball attempting to relocate to a spot where he can get a shot off. He is the Sun in the Warriors' solar system offense. At the end, it does matter. Jordan and James are, by consensus, the two best players in NBA history. My soul is in Brooklyn taking a pre-game nap," Thompson wrote "(You) hear all the talk about you as a player and us as a team, nobody outside of the Bay Area thought we would be here last October when the season started. Teams are now increasingly prioritizing their three-point shooting, while prospective NBA players arrive in the draft with well formed long-range shooting. I could tell in his demeanor," Curry's longtime Warriors teammate, Draymond Green, said after the Game 4 victory. Me as a player, obviously this Finals MVP stuff and all that, knew (we were) good enough to win three championships before. "Just happy I got to do it."

The six NBA Finals appearances in eight years for this Golden State Warriors era that no one saw coming. The fourth championship, which they won Thursday, when ...

But Curry, who had 13 of his 34 points in the fourth and gave his patented “night-night” gesture after his seventh and final 3 with 3:17 left, ended them for good from there. This essay is the introduction to “Heart of Gold,” The Athletic’s commemorative book about the Warriors’ 2021-22 season. With 6:15 left in the third quarter, he buried a 29-footer from the “NBA Finals” logo over Robert Williams and Marcus Smart to put the Warriors up 22, then pointed to his ring finger while staring into the stunned crowd. … Yeah, there’s a fire burning, and I want to make shots, but the rest of it is about how we win the game, and we did that.” Curry and the Warriors had done it — again. But it also came with complications, and it was quickly apparent that the “Splash Brothers” storyline of old had been forever changed. Though Golden State won two more games than the Celtics during the regular season, the Warriors lost 16 of 28 games in a brutal stretch run that was marred by injuries to Curry and Green after a sizzling 41-13 start. As all these roles and responsibilities changed, with the new players integrating with the old, questions about how this iteration of the Warriors would function emerged. Like the Warriors, these Celtics were a defensive-minded, mostly homegrown group that was built to contend for the long haul. The elation and affection were there for all to see as the Warriors hoisted the trophy on the TD Garden floor and partied until the Boston sunrise neared. The notion of him being a productive, full-time starter was once in serious question. The fourth championship, which they won Thursday, when his play in Game 6 was so sublime that he demanded another ring be put on his finger midway through the third quarter.

Over the last eight seasons, they have been the gatekeepers for the Larry O'Brien Trophy. No team has proven they can beat the Warriors in the postseason ...

"To get the job done, it's an emotional rollercoaster and obviously all the work that goes into it, the whole team is excited," Curry said. When they lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2016 NBA Finals, Green was suspended for Game 5. In 2019, Thompson and Kevin Durant suffered major lower leg injuries, derailing the Warriors' quest for a three-peat. "Everybody's exhausted though, so we're ready to get some rest and get ready for the parade on Monday." Like Draymond said, it's the 'Warriors Invitational.' We back. Shortly after Golden State's 103-90 win, Green referred to the playoffs as the "Warriors Invitational."