Stephen Curry keeps adding to a category that now belongs to him and LeBron James alone.
Curry scored 44 points in the Golden State Warriors’ 119-114 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday, giving him his 15th 40-point game since turning 35 years old. That pulls him even with James for the most such games, with Michael Jordan sitting third at 12.
The numbers got there the hard way. Curry shot 11-of-27 from the field and 6-of-16 from three, but he cashed in from the line, going 16-of-16 on free throws. Even on a night when the jumper wasn’t fully dialed in, he still found a way to carry the load.
James, by comparison, has not posted a 40-point game since February 2025. That was about 1.5 seasons ago, and he’s now 41 while averaging just 16.3 points in three games this season. Curry, meanwhile, doesn’t look like he’s easing off at 38, and he appears to have a real shot at piling up a few more big scoring nights before the season is over.
Last season, he had four 40-point games in only 43 appearances. Kevin Durant is the closest active player with nine, but even he rarely gets all the way into the 40s. Durant had just two 40-point games last year, despite being a reliable source of high-20s and low-30s scoring.
Curry’s night started quietly enough. He had only four points after the first quarter, then flipped the game with one of those stretches that still feels inevitable once it starts. He poured in 19 points in the second quarter, including 17 in the first seven minutes.
One sequence summed it up perfectly: seven straight Warriors possessions that went Curry three, Curry two, Curry three, Podz two on a Curry assist, Curry three, Lendeborg two on a Payton assist, Curry three. Golden State stretched the lead by 11 points during that burst and eventually pushed it to as many as 24.
The finish, though, was less clean. Curry went 1-of-5 in the final four minutes, and that opened the door for a Minnesota surge. It also fit a pattern that has shown up this season: he was 0-of-4 in the final three minutes against the Grizzlies as well.
Maybe it’s fatigue. Maybe it’s just the reality of a 38-year-old playing starter-level minutes.
Whatever the reason, the Warriors need the late-game version of Curry to show up. They let the Grizzlies slip away, and they nearly did the same thing against the Timberwolves.
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