Stephen Curry’s 41-point night against the Magic was full of the kind of shots that usually live in the “no, really?” category.
He finished 13-of-19 from the floor and 5-of-10 from deep, which tells part of the story. The rest of it was the sheer absurdity of some of the makes he piled up while carrying the Warriors in a game that kept getting stranger by the possession.
One of the buckets came on a scoop-shot floater that Curry has made look routine over the years. It still wasn’t easy, though, with Wendell Carter Jr. there as the shot-blocker and Curry finishing without even using the backboard.
Another familiar Curry move showed up before halftime, and it was the kind of make that left Steve Kerr laughing on the sideline after it dropped. Curry has built a career on turning difficult possessions into points, but that one still stood out for how cleanly he pulled it off.
Then there was the quick-shot heave after the Warriors won a jump ball with barely any time left on the shot clock. Curry had little room to work, so he launched a contested triple that somehow found the bottom of the net.
The most outrageous finish may have been the banked-in shot over Jamal Cain. Curry had Cain defending tightly, and still managed to find the angle to kiss it off the glass and in. Kerr called it an “impossible shot” afterward and added, “I don’t know if anybody else in the world could make that shot.”
Curry also hit a rainbow deep two from the corner while falling out of bounds, with the shot clock winding down and the 6'7" Cain draped all over him. It was the kind of attempt that looked doomed from the moment it left his hand, and yet it still went in.
The performance also moved Curry into a record spot for players over 35. Saturday was his 16th 40-point game, breaking the tie he had with LeBron James for the most 40-point games by a player over 35 years old.
For a player in his late 30s, scoring explosions like this are supposed to be rare. Curry already has two 40-plus-point games this season, and at 38, he’s showing no signs of slowing down.
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