Steve Kerr scanned the box score and alerted the room to the figure popping off the page illustrating Stephen Curry’s impact on the game.
In the aftermath of Curry becoming the NBA’s all-time leader in career 3-pointers Tuesday in a 105-96 victory over the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, Kerr counted the combined attempts from long distance for both teams.
“There were 82 3-pointers taken tonight,” he said. “So, on a night when he broke the record, the sum of both teams’ 3-point attempts was kind of a testament to Steph’s impact on the league. It’s a different game [now], obviously. But Steph made it a different game.”
Facts.
Curry nailed a pair of first-quarter triples to move past Ray Allen and seize the top spot on the NBA’s list for all-time made 3-pointers and finished the game with five 3s and a team-high 22 points. The Warriors guard broke the record over the course of 789 games — 511 fewer than it took Allen (1,300) to reach the milestone.
Curry has said that once he breaks the record, everything else would “just be about how far can you push it.”
Well, Curry now needs to knock down just 23 more 3-pointers to reach 3,000 for his career, a threshold no player in NBA history has reached.
Watch Stephen Curry become the all-time three-point leader, from inside Madison Square Garden 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/GUXxYMaABN
— NBA (@NBA) December 15, 2021
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