PHILADELPHIA – Stephen Curry has his no. 30 jersey stripped and handed filled suitcase bags full of memorabilia to a state troop in Delaware who stopped in full uniform to shoot hoops on the playground with children in the area.
‘It’s Curry! This is curry! One child screamed after Joshua Morris shot a long 3.
Curry presented a 3-point spectacle in Philly that was worthy of the troop’s own effort.
Curry scored 10 tries and scored 49 points to extend his sob, leading the Golden State Warriors to a 107-96 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night.
Morris later donated the child to the video – he calls him his ‘hype-man’ – a pair of Curry basketball shoes. The video grabs Curry’s attention and he invites Morris and guests to the game. Curry posed for photos after the game and walked back to the locker room without a shirt.
“He’s an amazing story … with the little kid who made him come up,” Curry said. ‘I had to show him a little love. The love he showed to the young man and just the foundation of the impact he shared. It’s pretty impressive. ”
Curry himself was not that bad.
Curry’s 3, which tied the game at 86, gave him 11 consecutive games with 30 or more points, and Kobe Bryant took the best spot by any player 33 or older. Curry, who turned 33 last month, also has the longest series of 30 points since becoming a Warriors player since Wilt Chamberlain in 1964.
Curry had his fifth 40-point game in April and Bryant and Michael Jordan scored the best 40-point game in a month by a player 33 years or older.
He buried 3s late in the fourth to turn the Warriors into the top team in the Eastern Conference. Joel Embiid, who scored 28 for the 76ers, had the ball thrown away and Andrew Wiggins, on the other hand, managed to clear the game.
The Sixers played without All Star Ben Simmons (illness) and Tobias Harris (20.5 points, sore right knee).
The Curry brothers went head-to-head – yes, in the city of brotherly love – in a live showdown from the first minutes when Seth buried a 3 over his brother or sister. Steph responded with a hard 3 at the end of the first quarter and had 20 points on the half.
Even for Curry, his recent series of sensational shootings has been the best of his career. He scored 43.8 points, 5.8 rebounds and 5.0 assists in four games last week. Curry even shook off an injured left ankle he turned in the game against Boston on Saturday to torch the 76ers.
“There’s something beautiful about it. “It really is an art,” said Warriors coach Steve Kerr. “What he does is great to watch. No one in the history of this game has ever done what he is currently doing.”
In the history of the game?
Six Rivers coach Doc Rivers once and even in an argument with his older brother in Chicago insisted that Curry’s season be opposed to anything Jordan has ever achieved.
“I do not know if I have ever seen anything like running,” Rivers said. “I guarantee you there is no one who has scored (points) like he has.”
Wiggins scored 16 points and Kevon Looney hit back a career high of 15.
Seth Curry scored 15 points and Danny Green hit four tries for 12 points. Embiid took 13 rebounds and was 11 of 14 from the free throw line.
“He really is a unique force in the league today,” Kerr said.
Curry has shown he is still the best player on the field. Golden State’s 29-29 record may be considered by MVP’s Curry, but the franchise’s leading scorer – who has hit at least 10 3s for the sixth time – is still one of the best in the league.