Stephen Curry hits more memorable than anyone in basketball history.
But when asked to choose the most meaningful career, the Warriors idols didn’t name the champion at the Chase Center, nor did they score three times the record from halftime.
Instead, he returned to where it all started, Davidson College.
Curry was open about the moment when everything changed.
“From my eyes, this is the shot of me playing against Gonzaga when I was Davidson,” Curry said through the complex. “Everyone has these moments, and if things go differently, that moment, your life might go differently. I really feel like that’s a different person, and for the kind of running we have, it’s the first round because it’s a race, it’s a minute of the remaining. Andrew Lovingale, Andrew Lovingale, my big guy at Davidson, Davidson’s big rebound is slow, it’s slow, it’s slow.”
“He got the rebound and threw it at me with one hand claw. I did, we got three of them.” “That just started snowballing, that was the game of that game. Then, your star rose a little bit and you brought confidence. Not that I couldn’t figure it out if we lost that game, but it was a big moment, that was a big moment, that gun didn’t go away, who knows how it would play.”
16 years ago today, Steph Curry vs Gonzaga!
40 points (30 points out of the second place)
14/22 Shooting
8/10 Three points
5 steals“Most people don’t think we’ll stand out from the first round. We have a stubborn belief that we can beat anyone in the country.” pic.twitter.com/tzxddlvtsu
– ballislife.com (@ballislife) March 21, 2024
Curry finished the game with 40 points on 14-of-22 shooting percentage and 8-10 from the deep, eliminating the No. 7 seed Gonzaga.
“I thought about a lot of things,” Curry added. “My faith is a big part of who I am. There is no real rhyme or reason; things happen, you are always grateful and grateful and trying to find its purpose. It’s when I was growing up, your fantasy went in a different way.”
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