Stephen Curry

Curry was denied in 2014-15 when Andre Iguodala got the honor, and had to cede the award to Kevin Durant during Golden State's 2017 and 2018 championships. This ...

The Golden State Warriors defeated the Boston Celtics 4-2 to win the 2022 NBA Finals and for the first time in his career, Stephen Curry has won a Finals MVP award. He was listed at +110 to win Finals MVP ahead of the series per DraftKings Sportsbook. Curry was dominant in Game 6, closing out the Celtics with 34 points, seven rebounds and seven assists.

This marks the first time Curry has taken home the award in six appearances in the finals. The 34-year-old point guard capped off his performance in the series ...

Stephen Curry has been named NBA Finals MVP after the Golden State Warriors defeated the Boston Celtics 103-90 in Game 6 on Thursday to capture the NBA championship. Stephen Curry has been named NBA Finals MVP after the Golden State Warriors defeated the Boston Celtics 103-90 in Game 6 on Thursday to capture the NBA championship. Warriors’ Curry named NBA Finals MVP for first time

Stephen Curry has been a menace off the ball against the Celtics. Ezra Shaw / Getty Images. At 12th on the list of NBA Finals scoring, Stephen Curry is one of ...

Draymond Green set five of the 15 off-ball screens for Curry in Game 1 — most of any player — and didn’t set any in Game 2. In Game 5, the Celtics defended a pindown well, trailing to dissuade a jumper without opening holes elsewhere. They have adapted their defense for Curry off the ball, playing a step behind him both literally and figuratively. A pindown screen sees the screener face the rim, and the cutter curls behind the screen to the arc, often for a 3-pointer. Golden State didn’t commit to that setup in Game 3, going back to off-ball screens for Curry from Green (who set six of the 14 total). And then in Game 4, Green again set only one. Per Second Spectrum, since the start of the player tracking era in 2013-14, Curry is one of 10 players with at least 10,000 cuts and is the only player with at least 6,000 cuts whose team averages at least 1 point per chance. The screener faces toward the rim in both screen types, but wide pindowns start from the corner and often see the cutter curling toward the rim instead of popping behind the arc. Curry may be one of the best players in the league with the ball in his hands, largely due to the pull-up shooting that casts a wide shadow on the style of the league. Yet they won Game 5, in which Curry didn’t make a triple — for the first time in his playoff career. He’s carried that cutting excellence into the Finals, leading the series in scoring efficiency off of cuts among players with at least 10 cuts. With his array of cuts across the court, Curry is used to spending time without the ball. He started Game 1 by hitting six triples in the first quarter, tied for the most in playoff history since 1996-97, and he finished with 34 points.

Missing out in 2015 when Andre Iguodala won the award and in 2017 and 2018 when Kevin Durant won the award, Curry won the 2022 Finals MVP hands down.

You know, it just says a lot about his toughness and his competitive nature and what it truly means to be a winner." When Curry wasn’t scoring at such a prolific rate – just 16 points in Game 5 – he had eight assists and two steals. He scored at least 30 points in five games, including a series-high 43 points in Game 4, the second-highest scoring output in his Finals career. "I remember where I started and just the whole journey," Curry said earlier in the series. The fact that from high school to your first All-Star Game, like it's a journey, and everything that had to go right in your life and on the court for that to happen. "He's our engine offensively," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said earlier in the playoffs.

Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors not only captured his fourth NBA championship Thursday, but the superstar guard also claimed his first NBA Finals ...

Andre Iguodala earned the honour in 2015 while Kevin Durant won it twice in 2017 and '18. But from just a humanity standpoint, a talent standpoint, humility, confidence -- a wonderful combination that makes everybody want to win for him," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. "Steph ultimately is why this run has happened, much like Timmy in San Antonio," Kerr added.

Vainqueurs de leur septième titre NBA, les Golden State Warriors savourent un titre qui ne leur était pas promis en début de saison.

Mais on a commencé avec un 18-2 en jouant le style de basket qui nous a conduit à tant de succès. Sachant que j'allais m'intégrer à ce groupe, on avait une chance de faire un truc spécial. Je suis content que Steph soit MVP de la finale. Les gens pourront dire ce qu'ils veulent de moi mais ils devront aussi mentionner que je suis champion du monde ! » Draymond Green (12 points, 12 rebonds, 8 passes, 2 interceptions, 2 contres) : « Quand on a une attaque aussi sexy, avec des types qui tirent aussi bien que Steph Curry, Klay Thompson et Jordan Poole, forcément, c'est ce que les gens vont apprécier. Mais on a battu cette équipe grâce à notre défense et c'est une constante. Andre Iguodala (une seule minute de jeu) : « Steph a solidifié son statut de meilleur meneur de tous les temps. Rien que de repenser à tous ces moments qu'on a traversés pour en arriver là, individuellement et collectivement, me donne la chair de poule [...] Et quand on a commencé la saison, je me rappelle clairement des experts qui mettait un gros zéro devant le nombre de nos titres à venir à cause de ce qu'on a vécu. Mais on l'a fait ! » Il y avait des clowns pour dire qu'il en avait "besoin". Il a largement prouvé ce dont il était capable. On est fier de notre travail défensif qui permet ensuite à notre attaque de briller. Je l'ai déjà dit, il me fait penser à Tim Duncan. Des joueurs totalement différents mais proches du point de vue de leur humanité, de leur talent, de leur humilité, de leur confiance. Mais sans Steph, rien de tout cela n'arrive. Comme Timmy à San Antonio. Alors je suis content pour tout le monde mais ravi pour Steph. Il lui manque juste une médaille d'or olympique. Il y avait tellement d'inconnues, les blessures de Klay, celle de Steph en fin de saison, beaucoup de jeunes joueurs. Tout le monde a compté. Je suis fier de tout le monde. Stephen Curry (meneur de jeu, MVP de la finale) après la victoire de Golden State contre Boston lors du match 6 : « Pourquoi commencez-vous avec cette question ? (un journaliste lui demande ce que ça représente d'être MVP de la finale) On a quatre titres.

We've all heard the narratives. Curry only won in 2015 because Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were hurt. Then he blew a 3-1 lead. Then he needed Kevin Durant for ...

Where I was wrong, pretty clearly, was in jumping to a conclusion that Curry isn't quite the same player anymore. When Curry says he'll have a hard time figuring out what the critics are going to say now, what he's saying is he knows there will be something. That's got to be one of the worst takes ever. If by some miracle Curry ever saw one of these tweets or read one of my headlines in which I spoke of this so-called drop-off, and it fueled him to play like this in the Finals, hey, I'm happy to have done my part 😂. There has to be something. That said, I have been critical of Curry at points, particularly this season, which was the worst shooting campaign of his career by a wide margin. Though I never would've questioned his place among the all-timers, I thought Curry was starting to slip. I grew up with the Warriors. It has driven me nothing short of crazy over the years to hear people trying, in any way they can, to diminish Curry as an all-time great. I have a hard time figuring out what they're going to say now, so this is pretty special." Man, that's a tough one to swallow. Even after what he just did in these Finals, I saw a couple of tweets saying he's still a "system player." "I hear all the narratives," Curry said.

Sacrés champions NBA, les Warriors vont rester un moment éveillés pour fêter ce titre bien mérité. C'est le cas de tous les joueurs, y compris Steph Curry, ...

Pour le moment, ils peuvent savourer, avant de partir en direction de la Californie pour célébrer avec les supporters. Sacrés champions NBA, les Warriors vont rester un moment éveillés pour fêter ce titre bien mérité. C’est le cas de tous les joueurs, y compris Steph Curry, déjà bourré après ce titre. Un joueur déjà bien bourré ? Curry, en train de s’amuser avec le champagne actuellement, tout en envoyant un sacré message à ses haters après sa quatrième bague.

Après son titre de champion NBA, le meneur des Golden State Warriors Stephen Curry n'a pas oublié de répondre à certains experts.

Face aux doutes et aux critiques, ils ont répondu sur le parquet. Les Warriors se sont nourris de ce contexte. Vous portez tout ça et vous essayez de maintenir votre objectif, de ne pas vous laisser distraire.

Four N.B.A. championships. Two Most Valuable Player Awards. And yes, a finals M.V.P. Golden State's Curry has nothing else to prove.

The second was that he had not been named a finals M.V.P. Standing alone at midcourt, Curry seemed to be laughing and crying at the same time, a euphoric mix of feelings. The first was that he had neither helped his team win a title without Kevin Durant nor defeated a finals opponent who was at full strength. Curry missed the final 12 games of the regular season with a sprained left foot, then aggravated the injury in Game 3 of the finals. He chomped on a victory cigar as he held his finals M.V.P. trophy aloft, pushing it skyward once, twice, three times. All he did in Game 4 was score 43 points to help Golden State even the series at two games apiece. The way he stretches the court with his interplanetary shooting. The Warriors scuffled through a slow rebuild. BOSTON — A few seconds remained in Stephen Curry’s N.B.A. season when he spotted his father, Dell, sitting along one of the baselines. He also recalled the exact moment he started preparing for the start of this season — 371 days ago. “Everybody wants to shoot 3s, and I’m like: ‘Man, you got to work a little harder to shoot like him. For the series, Curry averaged 31.2 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists while shooting 48.2 percent from the field and 43.7 percent from 3-point range.

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"It's special. We champs!" "Injuries, the changing of the guard, rosters, the young guys.

“I think he's pretty much established what he can do,“ Warriors guard Klay Thompson said after the NBA Finals ended Thursday night with Golden State as ...

The fourth parade is Monday. The fourth ring comes this fall. “This is what it’s all about.” They had three titles and five finals trips in five years from 2015 through 2019, then injuries and roster changes sent them to the bottom of the NBA in 2020 and on the outside of the playoff picture last year. When last season ended with a loss in the play-in tournament, Curry went right back to work, with this title in mind, knowing that few so-called experts thought the Warriors had a chance of extending their dynasty. It’s crazy to think about,“ Curry said. And his legend on the court only continues to grow. Nobody in the history of basketball has made more 3-pointers or made the art of throwing a ball through a hoop look easier than Curry does. “To me, this is his crowning achievement in what’s already been an incredible career.” Add that to the list, too. Curry’s spot in the Basketball Hall of Fame was locked up long before Thursday night, when he scored 34 points and the Warriors won their fourth title in eight years by topping the Boston Celtics 103-90. Go ahead, put him in the Greatest Of All Time conversation. What a series.”

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Mais tout part de Steph", témoigne Steve Kerr. Il n’est pas juste le visage d’un changement d’époque. Il est le visage d’une dynastie. Il est perçu comme le visage du basket moderne et de cette révolution. Pourtant, c’est réducteur. Parce que ses détracteurs ne le voient qu’à travers ça. Stephen Curry est dans la forme de sa vie. Plus fort, plus solide, plus vif, plus intelligent et dans une meilleure condition physique qu’il ne l’a jamais été. Cette série montre qu’il aurait pu dominer à n’importe quelle période de l’Histoire, même si, honnêtement, il n’avait absolument pas besoin de le prouver. Avec son palmarès, il s’affirme un peu plus comme l’un des plus grands basketteurs de tous les temps. Comme dans les dernières minutes de ce Game 6, quand il a forcé les "switches" pour agresser Al Horford avant de conclure près du cercle. "Trois fois où je vois ce trophée de près. Cette fois-ci, je vais pouvoir le ramener à la maison", confie l’intéressé. Ses paniers à la fin sont symboliques de sa domination sur les Celtics, pourtant la meilleure défense du championnat. Il répare ainsi une injustice – il aurait déjà dû l’avoir dès 2015 – et fait taire pour de bon ceux qui répétaient, à tort, qu’il n’arrivait pas à peser à ce stade de la compétition. La récompense est méritée : il a été de très loin le meilleur joueur de cette série. Deux ou trois crans au-dessus de tout le monde. 13 de ses 34 points ce vendredi soir. Certains ne voulaient plus croire en elle et en son noyau dur. C’est une revanche parce qu’il décroche là son premier trophée de MVP des finales. La joie, bien sûr. Un bonheur euphorique à en perdre les mots devant les micros tendus pour recueillir ses impressions. Certains ne voulaient plus croire en Curry.

For sure. You bookend it,” Curry told Yahoo Sports when asked if he wanted to do it without his former teammate, Kevin Durant.

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Les Warriors de Golden State n'avaient pas le goût de lésiner avec les Celtics de Boston et ont rapidement réglé leur cas pour ajouter un chapitre à la ...

Curry a subi une blessure à la main en 2019 et les performances du club en ont été grandement affectées. Cependant, l’échange amenant Wiggins en Californie conclu avec les Timberwolves du Minnesota en février 2020 a permis à Golden State de revenir en force et de faire oublier quelques années difficiles. «J’ai vu ce trophée de près trois fois et là, je le prends chez moi. Et surtout, Curry était toujours dans les parages, prêt à en offrir autant à l’organisation. «Celui-là est différent, certainement, sachant ce que les trois dernières années ont représenté. Il y a eu les blessures, le changement de garde et de formation. Quand on a dit qu’on croyait revenir à ce niveau, cela ne faisait pas de sens aux yeux de plusieurs. Même s’il compte désormais quatre titres du circuit Silver en carrière, le plus récent lui donne un goût bien particulier.

Steph Curry kept receipts from all of his haters.

The "Ayesha Curry can't cook" comments weren't the only dig that Steph Curry helped to turn around and fire back at Celtics fans. Curry strongly disagreed that the Warriors' victory was a "checkbook win." "Like, yeah, because it starts with the core group of champions and bona fide winners and the belief that we can run it back. Windhorst was discussing the Warriors' choice to keep Andrew Wiggins after acquiring him in the D'Angelo Russell deal and how that impacted the team. "I heard somebody talking about some ... was it, 'checkbook wins' and all this other stuff," Curry said after the game. "The fact that when we started this season, the conversations about who we were as a team and what we were capable of, clearly remember some experts and talking heads putting up the big zero of how many championships we would have going forward because of everything that we went through," Curry said. It matched the symbol held up by two analysts on ESPN's "First Take" to a tee. So too was Ayesha Curry's postgame tweet about "tonight's menu," which featured within it Curry GOAT. After Curry helped lead the Warriors to their fourth championship in the last eight years with a 103-90 Game 6 win over the Celtics, he was overcome with emotion. "And you get goosebumps just thinking about, you know, all those snapshots and episodes that we went through to get back here, individually, collectively. Indeed, Curry proved that he heard the doubters loud and clear. I have a hard time figuring out what they're going to say now, so this is pretty special."

After an amazing NBA Finals series against the Boston Celtics, the Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry received his first-ever Finals MVP award.

It means a lot because you know how to win, and everybody who is part of this knows what it's about. At the beginning of the year, we weren't even on the radar. At the end of the day, it's about what we are doing on the floor."

Curry joins the likes of LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal with his fourth ring.

Myers believed that as long as the Warriors had Curry they had what it took to win another title without compromising the future, and he was right. Curry is 34 years old and you have to wonder if he's got another five LeBron-like years in him, where age doesn't seem to have nearly the same impact it does on most. If Kevin Durant doesn't go down in 2019, if Draymond Green doesn't get suspended in 2016, Curry probably has at least five titles in these eight years, and very possibly six, with a record-breaking 73-win season on the card as well. The best player on one of the greatest dynasties in sports history. That makes him the first player in NBA history to make at least five 3-pointers in five games of a single Finals series. Steph is one of the all-timers. He's also one of just five players to win multiple regular-season MVPs, multiple scoring titles and Finals MVP, and he's just the third guard in history to average at least 30 points in two separate Finals. We're running out of room on a resume that is becoming pretty tough to keep out of any all-time-great conversation worth its salt. He's the guy that keeps everyone together in the locker room, the selfless star who plays without the ball and makes room for others to shine. The rare superstar blend of humility and downright arrogant confidence in his own abilities that, as Steve Kerr told Scott Van Pelt after the win, "makes everyone in the locker room want to fight for him." Like Kerr said, credit to Myers for pulling all the right roster strings, and for not pulling a few others that plenty of people thought he should've pulled. Besides that LeBron needed Wade and Chris Bosh, Shaq needed Kobe and Wade, Magic needed Kareem. That's how it works, particularly with the depth of talent that exists in the modern NBA. Nobody does it alone. First of all, Curry won a title before Durant and now he has won one after him.

Les Warriors de Golden State n'avaient pas le goût de lésiner avec les Celtics de Boston et ont rapidement réglé leur cas pour ajouter un chapitre à la ...

Curry a subi une blessure à la main en 2019 et les performances du club en ont été grandement affectées. Cependant, l’échange amenant Wiggins en Californie conclu avec les Timberwolves du Minnesota en février 2020 a permis à Golden State de revenir en force et de faire oublier quelques années difficiles. «J’ai vu ce trophée de près trois fois et là, je le prends chez moi. Et surtout, Curry était toujours dans les parages, prêt à en offrir autant à l’organisation. «Celui-là est différent, certainement, sachant ce que les trois dernières années ont représenté. Il y a eu les blessures, le changement de garde et de formation. Quand on a dit qu’on croyait revenir à ce niveau, cela ne faisait pas de sens aux yeux de plusieurs. Même s’il compte désormais quatre titres du circuit Silver en carrière, le plus récent lui donne un goût bien particulier.

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Un geste en référence à plusieurs spécialistes de la NBA à qui il avait été demandé combien de trophées Stephen Curry allait gagner ces quatre prochaines années. La majorité avait esquissé ce fameux geste du zéro avec les doigts. Un succès qui mérite bien un pied de nez à certains détracteurs de la star de la franchise californienne: Stephen Curry. Accompagné du trophée Larry O'Brien, Curry s’est fendu d’un geste à destination de ceux qui ne croyaient plus en lui: un zéro fait avec les doigts et un regard narquois. Avec cette victoire lors du match six des finales NBA, les Golden State Warriors remportent un 4e titre en sept ans mais aussi le 7e depuis la création de la franchise en 1946.

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Mallory Edens a un coeur, et évidemment, devant les larmes de Stephen Curry, elle a été attendrie. Et puis, avec Giannis dans l’effectif, elle sait pertinemment qu’elle touchera à nouveau un titre dans les prochaines années. Stephen Curry était déjà une légende avant le début de ces Finales, mais après ce nouveau titre et ce premier trophée Bill Russell à son palmarès il est bien plus.

When Stephen Curry came out of high school, there was not much confidence surrounding his basketball career trajectory. Then, he led Davidson to an Elite 8.

That was confirmed when Curry won his fourth championship and won the Finals MVP Award. There is a valid discussion that the Warriors might have not won the 2017 or 2018 Finals without Durant. With that said, Curry made it to the Finals twice before Durant joined the team. Curry led the league in offensive win shares (13.8) and total win shares (17.9) during his unanimous MVP season. He won the MVP Award in 2019 with teammates Curry and Thompson in the game. When Durant led the league in win shares, it was also during his MVP season. Curry won the MVP right after Durant had won his fourth scoring title in his career. Durant made the Second Team in 2016, 2017, and 2019. We are not even talking just because Curry made the 50-40-90 club either because that is something Durant has done once in his career, which was in 2013. After the record-setting season, Durant joined the Warriors and helped the team win titles in 2017 and 2018, which included winning Finals MVP in both of those seasons. His former teammate in Kevin Durant was a part of two of those championship teams, which included winning back-to-back Finals MVP Awards. With Curry and Durant on the same team, it featured the last three MVP award winners. Curry and the Warriors core marched to the NBA Finals, where Curry earned his first Finals MVP. Meanwhile, Durant played with Kyrie Irving and James Harden throughout the season and the Nets nearly missed the playoffs and were then bounced out of the first round. If Curry is a top-10 player in the league, is there room for Durant in those top spots as well?

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What does a fourth title and first Finals MVP mean for Stephen Curry's standing among the NBA's all-time greats?

He’s aged very well and his game and conditioning should allow him to continue that trend, but if he plays at an All-Star level for a few more years, it’ll be tough to contest that he’s the greatest point guard of all time. Rob Peterson: If you’re close to the top 10 or in some people’s top 10, I think you’re already in the GOAT convo. But as a top-10 player (in my opinion) all time, he’s already in the discussion. Damon Sayles: Michael Jordan is the GOAT, in my opinion, and it will take a TON for me to change my mind. Also, I think Luka Doncić should probably be in the 75 based on talent alone and his ability to affect games. I had Giannis Antetokounmpo in my top 20 (at No. 20), and he’s No. 24 on our list. He is the omission from our list and from the NBA’s list. I’d love to place Giannis Antetokounmpo higher, but it’s really hard to jump him above Elgin Baylor considering the way the latter was the original version of many of the future high-flyers on the list – Giannis included. Jon Greenberg: Man, it wasn’t a great season for a lot of the active members of the top 75 list, was it? Curry is the greatest shooter in NBA history, one of the greatest players in terms of gravity and one of the few in history (George Mikan, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar, Elgin Baylor, Dr. J and Magic Johnson) who can lay claim to changing how the game is played. I think he has a stronger argument now than he did a year ago, but the bulk of that argument is from 2015 to 2020 either way. I don’t want to be a prisoner of the moment.

Steph Curry was given a warm welcome to the exclusive NBA club.

And he graduated college, an achievement Ayesha Curry doesn't want the world to forget. It has been a journey for sure, but to look at that list and realize only one other player is still playing in the NBA is absurd to think about what Curry could still accomplish. And in doing so, he joined some ultra-elite company in the process.

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Stephen Curry once again is the ruler of the NBA after winning the 2022 championship with his Golden State Warriors. It wasn't easy, as they faced many.

Curry played great basketball this postseason, eliminating big rivals on the way to the Finals and taking care of business when things mattered the most. It was a terrific series for the Chef, who isn't stopping now and will be ready to add more silverware to his career. He played great on both ends of the court, taking on Jayson Tatum on the defensive end and clamping him.

Stephen Curry led the Golden State Warriors to an NBA championship and won a Finals MVP in the process. There is no doubt that he was the offensive force ...

Some people believe that he's already a top-10 player of all time and that he could end up winning next year's championship as well. Stephen Curry led the Golden State Warriors to an NBA championship and won a Finals MVP in the process. While Kevin Durant and Andre Iguodala won the Finals MVPs during the past Golden State Warriors' runs, Stephen Curry never got down on himself, and his hard work has finally paid off.