Stephen Curry’s hot sequence is exactly why the Warriors went with Jimmy Butler

Stephen Curry is entering the Golden State Warriors Nationally Au -Dypsy match with the Kings of Sacramento just two shots from another piece of long -distance history.

After spending 5 for 11 from deep in the victory of Golden State 130-120 against the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday, Curry is 3,998 made at 3 points for his illustrious career. Two others, and he becomes the first player to make 4,000 3 points. (In the regular season, anyway. At a striking distance from 5,000.)

“It’s crazy – crazy,” said Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, to journalists after a recent victory over the pistons during which Curry became the 30th player in NBA / Aba To reach 25,000 career points. “It looks like 25,000 3s, in fact.”

There is a good chance that he does not take the curry for too long to obtain these two triplets.

Curry is on average 4.5 made at 3 points per game, league For the fifth consecutive season (and the 12th time in the past 13 years). He did two or more in 52 of his 56 games this season – including 17 consecutive competitions, the NBA The longest active sequence. He struck two before half-time 34 times this season; He is struck in a pair in the first quarter 15 times.

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Combine this with the fact that Curry will face a defense of Sacramento who Abandoned more triple per game this season May anyone except jazz and terrible pelicans – and this on Monday allowed a team of Knicks missing the leader of the superstar Jalen Brunson to empty a Se-season, 22 long balls – And the conditions seem favorable for an early celebration of the last of a long line of matons beyond the arc on the curriculum vitae of the biggest shooting game never seen.

In 2013, Curry set a record for most of the 3 points in a single season, exceeding the previous brand of Ray Allen of 269:

Two years later, on the way to his first prize for the most precious players in the NBA, he went beyond, reset the bar at 286 long balls:

A year after that, in what would become the first unanimous MVP campaign in the history of the NBA, Steph sent the bar in orbit, turning in the first 300. And 400 triple season:

And since … well, Ladies and gentlemen, it floated in space.

There was 104 10-3 point games in the history of the NBA; Curry A 26. There were seven seasons of 300 to 3 points in the history of the NBA; Curry has five.

In 2021, after having jumped Allen for the record of 3 points of all time, Curry broke the 3,000 triple barrier. It took almost three years in James Harden to transform this into a club of two people … And now, Steph is only two wrist films to leave everyone again in the dust.

“I have the impression of living a constant rhythm atmosphere”, Curry Tell to journalists After the Warriors, the Knicks beat the Madison Square Garden last week. “Because from 2,974 (his record of all time at 3 points) occurred here three years ago, it was never – I mean, (4000) was a goal, but it was never … I never thought it would be a reality.”

Curry arrives at the door of this breathtaking achievement thanks in part to another apparent piece of unreality: that, on the eve of his 37th anniversary on Friday, he is always one of the most effective and effective offensive players on the planet – and the one who was unleashed by the arrival of Jimmy Butler.

The Jimmy Butler effect

Since the beginnings of Butler with the Warriors on February 8, Curry is average 29.9 points (only second against Shai Gilgeous -Alexander in this period) and 6.1 assists per game, pulling 49.6% in the field, 42.4% on a field of 3 points out of 12.3 launches a night and 92.3% of the launch line – good for a fun .689 True shooting percentage. The last player to sniff even this combination of rating volume and shooting efficiency during a full season (minimum 50 games played)? Well, it would be … Stephen Curry, in 2017-2018When he and Kevin during the world of basketball in Cinders.

The presence of another offensive threat in good faith stars for the defenses in the spotlight helped to open things in Curry. He takes a higher part of his blows on the edge that him Before the butler’s agreement and finish them at a 70% clipwho would be the Second highest rate of his career. And with the butler to direct the transformation of the Warriors into one of the best free throwing teams – Golden State spent 26.5% of his offensive possessions in the bonus Since the arrival of Jimmy, according to PBP statistics, the third highest rate of the NBA, up 20.3% beforethe third of the Leaguethe lowest Rate – Curry has taken 6.5 Freebies per gameAlmost double his night intake Before trade.

Everything is added to the type of radiator that few league players can match. The curry was on average more than One point per minute during the recent Golden State road tripWith 32 triples in five games, reserved by its 56 -point explosion in Orlando and a 40 -point performance in Brooklyn; In both games, he heard MVP songs despite his visitor.

It is extremely unlikely that he can join Gilgeous-Alexander, Nikola Jokić and Giannis Antetokounmpo in the upper levels of the MVP conversation this season. It should be noted, however, that Curry do rank in or near the top 10 of this season in estimated more,, Value on the replacement player,, Box More-Mo and Kostya Medvetovsky Darko Daily Plus Metrics – A recall of the power of a weapon that remains, and precisely the justification of the large swing of the deadline of Golden State for Butler to increase the team around Curry.

Sixteen years and on 4,000 3 points after the start of his NBA trip, Stephen Curry is still the guy for whom you are going to all – a megawatt attraction once in life that is always worth doing business and the price of admission.

“When we were there on the field, I said to myself:” The NBA is lucky “, Buddy Green for a long time recently said. “This guy enters each arena and makes a show. We are all lucky.