Steph Curry has loads of expertise turning a random midseason recreation right into a spectacle.
Sunday evening in Cleveland was the midseason recreation, the All-Star Sport, and he elevated the occasion to an entire new degree together with his report 16 made 3-pointers in Workforce LeBron’s 163-160 win over Workforce Durant.
Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse stands out as the solely area within the NBA that has booed Curry this season, as Cavaliers followers are nonetheless salty from the times when Curry and his All-Star workforce’s captain, LeBron James, dueled within the NBA Finals each season from 2015 to 2018.
Towards the tip of the sport, although, Curry had gained them over, too, as the gang chanted a well-recognized chorus for Curry: “M-V-P! M-V-P!”
He gained that honor, the redesigned Kobe Bryant All-Star Sport MVP Award, with a 50-point efficiency that he’ll hope to springboard into stronger taking pictures down the Warriors’ stretch run.
The Cleveland followers weren’t the one ones in awe of Curry.
James, who hit the game-winning shot, couldn’t consider what he noticed from his now-Western Convention rival.
”This man is from a unique planet. He actually has an computerized sniper related to his arm, and when he lets it go, not solely himself, however everyone on the ground, within the stands, on TV, on their telephones, no matter you're watching on, you assume it’s stepping into each time,” James stated. ”9 instances out of 10 and typically 10 instances out of 10, it does go in.
”To be on the market and watch that child from Akron as nicely shoot the ball the best way he shot it, it was unbelievable,” James added, hinting at his shared birthplace close to the location of Sunday’s recreation. ”It was fairly cool.”
The TNT broadcast introduced collectively a star guard trio of Reggie Miller, Allen Iverson and Dwyane Wade, who narrated Curry’s thirteenth 3-pointer as he stretched the All-Star Sport report previous Chris Paul’s earlier mark of 9.
“Oh no, right here he go,” Miller stated as Curry pulled up.
“He totally different,” Iverson repeated because the shot splashed by way of the web, and the published lower to the 2 Corridor of Famers and a surefire future inductee clutching one another in disbelief.
"HE DIFFERENT!' 😳
STEPH (13 3PM) HAS SET A NEW 3-PT RECORD AT #NBAAllStarpic.twitter.com/Ygj2rNEpk3
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) February 21, 2022
One much less impressed particular person was Curry’s Warriors teammate Andrew Wiggins, solely as a result of he’s seen the two-time MVP placed on exhibits like this earlier than.
“Steph does what Steph does. I see it on daily basis, each recreation I see it,” Wiggins stated after the sport, his personal first All-Star look. “So I’m watching, everybody’s impressed, I’m like ‘Hey, I see it on daily basis.'”
Extra NBA gamers had the awestruck response of James, Iverson and Miller, although:
“That is truly insane,” Blazers ahead Nasir Little tweeted.
“Lower it out Chef,” new Nets guard Seth Curry wrote to his brother.
“If one man (turns into) a greater shooter than Steph, how loopy it could be,” a whimsical Nicolas Batum of the Clippers tweeted.
Saturday evening, Giannis Antetokounmpo blamed Curry for ruining one All-Star occasion — the dunk contest — by altering the sport together with his 3-point taking pictures.
“You modified the sport, it’s your fault,” one two-time MVP joked to a different.
However Sunday evening, Curry’s taking pictures lifted the sport to a brand new degree, main Antetokounmpo and Workforce LeBron to the win.
By Monday morning, the defending Finals MVP was singing a unique tune: “I really like this recreation,” he tweeted. “Steph went loopy 16 threes!”
I really like this recreation ❤️ Steph went loopy 16 threes! 😱🤯 pic.twitter.com/I2IDaS2sa9
— Giannis Antetokounmpo (@Giannis_An34) February 21, 2022