Steph Curry

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.

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.”

He's won four in Golden State now – the first in 2015 when he played a starring role, winning Finals MVP. In 2017 and 2018, Iguodala was a pivotal bench ...

Ultimately, Iguodala circled back to Curry answering the bell and silencing the doubters. “You go a year when they won 15 games, last year not being able to get to the playoffs,” Iguodala said. Different role, different capacity and then having amazing teammates.”

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.

Despite having four titles under his name during his NBA career, there was something missing for Curry - an NBA Finals MVP award. Well, on Thursday night that ...

This NBA Title might be even more sweet than the first three for the star point guard. Well, following the game, Curry had a similar message. Well, on Thursday night that came to an end.

Steph Curry celebrated his fourth championship Thursday night like it was his first ... slugging bubbly from a chalice and talkin' smack to his haters.

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The Warriors star owned these Finals much like he's owned the NBA for the past decade. After carrying Golden State to its fourth title in eight years—and ...

Curry, a veteran of playing the Most Dangerous Game with LeBron James and James Harden, just shrugged it off, banging right back whenever they went at him, without wavering, faltering, or blinking; the Celtics scored a measly 0.79 points per chance on possessions when they attacked Curry in isolation, according to Second Spectrum’s tracking. Stripping out those scuffling early-second-and-fourth lineups, though, and just focusing on Steph’s minutes tells a different tale: With Curry on the floor, Golden State averaged 115.8 points-per-100—just below the league-leading regular-season mark. When they did try to switch, he hunted Boston’s bigs, torching Al Horford and a hobbled Robert Williams III off the bounce to get all the way to the rim. 1 defense in the NBA, while guarded primarily by the just-crowned Defensive Player of the Year in Marcus Smart, with near-constant extra help … and that number doesn’t account for the hockey assists, or all the baskets he sets up by demanding defensive attention everywhere he goes. And on Thursday, with the championship in sight, he sloughed off Game 5’s rocky shooting and resumed scorching, knocking down six of his 11 3-point tries en route to 34 points, seven rebounds, seven assists, two steals, and one block in 40 incredible minutes. Regardless of your view on the all-time rankings, this much is indisputable: Curry is the prime mover, the stylistic and cultural centerpiece, of a franchise that has now won four NBA championships in eight years. He crouched and eventually sat down on the hardwood, laid low by the moment—a 103-90 victory over the Celtics, a 4-2 series win to earn the fourth NBA championship of his career—and overwhelmed by the realization that, just over 1,100 days after Golden State’s golden age seemed to end, he and the franchise could let go of “the three years of baggage we carried coming out of that Game 6 in 2019.” Could still shine as bright as ever; could still lord over the sport. It took all of that, and the Warriors got every bit of it. It took the nomadic Gary Payton II finding a home—not as a video coordinator, granted, but still a pretty good gig as the kind of hard-charging, havoc-wreaking ball hawk who could break his elbow and still come back to help tilt Finals games a month later. It took Draymond Green battling age, apathy, a back injury, and a swarming, athletic Celtics team to rediscover the two-way force that makes him not only the guy who coined the phrase “16-game player,” but also one of its grand exemplars. “You’re carrying all of that on a daily basis to try to realize a dream and a goal, like we did tonight. After 40 minutes of throwing lightning bolts, dazzling and baffling Boston all over the floor for the fifth time in six games, Stephen Curry hung behind in the backcourt.

The Golden State Warriors won another NBA championship, and ESPN's Kendrick Perinks was reminded of an easy rule: Never doubt Stephen Curry.

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. Perkins and Foxworth both gestured a “zero” around their eye, which even looked not-so-great at the time considering Curry’s history. Curry, who was also crowned NBA Finals MVP for the first time in his career, was emotional after taking home another title.

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.

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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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.

The list of players with a league MVP and four championships include LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson ...

We saw big plays defensively from Steph all series whether it was stripping Jaylen Brown driving to the rim or reading an entry pass on defense for a steal, he wasn’t the negative NBA fans like Skip Bayless tend to claim he is . I mean with a so-called defensive liability on the floor, the Warriors defense was stifling all year so there’s that. While Klay, Andrew Wiggins and Jordan Poole stepped up in big moments throughout the series, Steph was shouldering most of the load and quite frankly, ended all talks of his Finals woes with that individual performance. You can’t knock Russell for being alive in the era he’s in especially when he’s without a doubt one of the greatest winners and defenders the game has ever seen but you do have to add context behind his success. Because of Steph and the Warriors, the value and importance of the 3-pointer grew. In a recent interview on First Take, Shaq echoed the sentiment that Steph Curry is a top 10 player of all time. The biggest knock on Steph’s career was the missing Finals MVP on his resume so at this point, what more do you want Steph Curry to accomplish in his career?

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

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.

Golden State Warriors superstar Steph Curry had an interesting way of celebrating his NBA Finals win yesterday.

"Shout out to Aaron Donald for giving me some inspiration for that celebration," Curry said. The newly-minted Finals MVP credited Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald with his ring celebration. After getting his trophy, he was asked about the celebration.

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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Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry and former President Barack Obama are friends, and the 44th president wasted no time calling to congratulate the ...

Congrats to Finals MVP Steph, Draymond, Klay, Coach Kerr and the rest of Dub Nation for such sustained excellence." Outside of golf, Curry and Obama have appeared together to discuss social issues and philanthropy. It's all kind of surreal."

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.

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.

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That's why I don't understand for the guys that are a similar age to me going because I would like to believe that my best days are still ahead of me, and I think theirs are, too. I recognized the two kids that were running the opposite way with a smile on their face. And that's exactly what I did. Yeah, I think everyone in this room would say to themselves that their best days are behind them. "I'm pretty sure I know who it was. "I'm surprised a little just because I feel like we love Tyreek here.

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."