Steph Curry is synonymous with three-point taking pictures within the NBA however there was a time the place even he needed to show himself.
The 6 foot 2 guard was all the time informed he was too small to succeed and given, it did take the Davidson prospect just a few seasons to develop his recreation after getting into the league in 2009 as the general quantity seven draft choose.
Steph just lately recalled the second when he felt as if he had arrived as an NBA participant.
“It was probably my fourth year,” Curry informed the TODAY Show. “We had a game in New York at the Garden. I scored 54 points, but we lost that night. That game, specifically, just kind of changed the narrative of, ‘OK, we’ve got to take this kid seriously eventually, because he’s got game and he’s fearless.’”
Fast ahead to right now and Curry is about to enter his fifteenth season within the league and his stats are like online game numbers. So crazily constant.
To at the present time, the Dubs’ loss to New York on that fateful that night time remains to be Curry’s third-highest scoring recreation in his storied profession.
It’s an evening that Warriors followers gained’t quickly overlook and though Curry says that was his turning level, his mindset from again then nonetheless stays with him in a method.
“It’s a tough one to explain because of what the resume looks like, but for me, it’s like that healthy insecurity of the way that I’ve seen the game of basketball, life, from Day 1 has not changed at all,” Curry mentioned. “I nonetheless must show to myself that I can nonetheless do it. That I can nonetheless do it, or I can nonetheless do it for so long as I can.
“That’s what drives me. That underrated mindset oozes out of me at every opportunity.”
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