A year of historic records for the spectacular point guard of the Golden State Warriors, Stephen Curry continues to increase and during the NBA All-Star Game 2022 was no exception as Sunday night at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, at least in the activity on the court, belonged to the “Chef”.
“This trophy has a very special meaning. … I'm very humbled, very blessed and I really appreciate it.” 🙏
Steph Curry on winning the #NBAAllStar Game Kobe Bryant MVP pic.twitter.com/upHqL6mNv1
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) February 21, 2022
Following Team LeBron’s 163-160 victory over Team Durant at the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the NBA Commissioner capped off a wonderful night of NBA 75th Anniversary Team honors by announcing Curry as the 2022 Kobe Bryant NBA All-Star Game MVP of the thrilling game.
The Stephen Curry Show
Curry, who was part of that 75th Anniversary team, stole the show of the game as he scored 16 three-point shots, which not only set a new NBA mid-season game mark, he destroyed it and not only set that mark.
As if that wasn’t enough, he also broke the record for three-pointers in a quarter (six) and in a half (eight).
50 PTS
17-30 FG
16-27 3FG#StephGonnaSteph ¯_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/HGqgUZdaFD— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) February 21, 2022
This trophy has a very special meaning, honoring Kobe and Gigi, everybody that was lost two years ago,” Curry said. “I’m very humbled, very blessed and I really appreciate it.”
Record for any NBA game
The previous record for three-pointers was held by Paul George with nine and the record for three-pointers in any type of NBA game was held by Klay Thomson with 14 in 2018 against the Chicago Bulls, so while it’s not official, Curry technically hit that mark as well.
Stephen Curry plans to raise money for the Cleveland Metro School District through his #NBAAllStar stats:
• $1,000 for every point
• $3,000 for every 3-pointer
• $10,000 if he wins ASG MVPCurry Brand is also providing @PositiveCoachUS training to every CMSD hoop coach. pic.twitter.com/05CMQhJjGL
— Nick DePaula (@NickDePaula) February 20, 2022
In terms of total points in an All-Star Game, Curry scored 50 with which he was only two away from equaling the all-time mark still held by Anthony Davis who achieved it in the 2017 edition.
Curry, top three-point scorer in history
During the season, Curry had already become the all-time leading scorer of three-pointers in a regular season career, surpassing Ray Allen‘s 2,973, at the time of writing this article, the “Chef” has 3,083.
