Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors star, recently won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award for the second year in a row. The 28-year-old point guard astonished the League with his inclination to consistently score seemingly impossible shots.
The two-time MVP was born in Ohio but raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was apt to play basketball from a young age as he started practicing with his father, the Charlotte Hornets’ all-time leading scorer, Dell Curry. Curry Sr. was a prominent three-point shooter and he taught his son the secrets of three-point-shooting. Stephen has a younger brother who is also a professional NBA player, Seth Curry of Sacramento Kings.
In the beginning of his career, Stephen Curry was questioned due to his physique. Specialists were not impressed with his figure despite his undeniable talent. However, Curry became the role model of thousands of young NBA fans through his work ethic and his determination to become the best.
According to biography.com, Curry recently became the first NBA athlete to be declared as Most Valuable Player by unanimous vote in the league’s history. This is only one of the numerous records that the Ohio-born point guard (PG) has broken.
Not surprisingly, Curry holds three out of five single-season three-point totals in the history of the league. The three-point machine beat his own record this season with 402 three-pointers, leaving 2014-2015 Curry in the second place with 286 three-pointers. Curry is also in the fourth and seventh place of this table with 272 three-pointers in 2012-2013 and 261 three-pointers in 2013-2014 respectively.
Curry holds the same record in the NBA Playoffs as he scored 98 three-pointers in 2015, leaving the previous holder and Hall of Famer Reggie Miller in the second place with 58. During the 2014-2015 season, he became the second Warriors player in the team's history to receive the NBA MVP award.
The star's impossible shooting deeds are so stunning that the video game NBA2k16 cannot keep up with his performances in real life. In order for this to happen, the game developers along with Under Armour
decided to raise the player's statistics to the maximum 99 for 30 hours starting at 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 12.During the regular season, Curry scored 2375 points, 1206 of which came from three-pointers. On average, he laid out 30.1 points, 5.4 rebounds and 6.7 assists. His PIE (Player Impact Estimate), which calculates a player’s contribution to each game they play, was 19.7 percent. Curry's three-point shot skills along with his overall performance have been changing the way the game has been played.
