With every basket, Stephen Curry continues to affix increasingly more rarified air.
He already owns the all-time document for 3-point makes, just lately nailing his 4,000th triple.
That long-range prowess, together with the flexibility to energy inside for layups, drop in floaters and may midrange jumpers, has helped him climb the NBA’s all-time scoring listing.
Throughout Curry’s 52-point decimation of the Memphis Grizzlies in southwest Tennessee on Tuesday evening, the 37-year-old guard scored his 25,193rd level and moved previous the late Jerry West for twenty fifth on the ladder.
“I got a little emotional about that because that’s special. What he meant to the league, the world of basketball, to our organization when he worked here … that’s the logo,” Curry stated.
Golden State Warriors gaurd Stephen Curry shares amusing with the late Jerry West, heart, in 2012 (Aric Crabb/Employees)
West, who was the mannequin for the NBA brand and was in some ways the unique prototype for Curry’s combo-guard archetype as a do-everything scoring dynamo with a candy shot, was a legendary participant for the Lakers within the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies earlier than serving to construct two separate dynasties in Los Angeles.
After leaving the staff within the early-2000s, West labored within the Warriors’ entrance workplace from 2011 to 2017.
West embraced the high-volume taking pictures expertise of Curry and Klay Thompson, and was instrumental in constructing the staff’s dynastic roster.
His son, Jonnie West, is the director of professional personnel for Golden State.
“I got to talk to him after the game, and share a moment for what it meant to me, my family and the entire West family,” Curry stated.
Curry is now 75 factors from passing Reggie Miller (25,279) for twenty fourth on the listing.
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) is now simply 75 factors from passing Reggie Miller (AP Photograph/Brandon Dill)
