SIGNATURE MOMENTS
Nights the arc became a plot point.
Not every 30-point game belongs on a monument. These are the public scenes people still tell without checking a phone.
01 · March 2008
A 10-seed to the Elite Eight
Davidson over Gonzaga, Georgetown, and Wisconsin. Curry scores 40, then climbs out of a 17-point hole, then 33 more. Kansas ends it 59–57. The country learns the name before the league does.
02 · February 25, 2013
54 at the Garden
Eleven threes. Fifty-four points. A loss to the Knicks that still reads as a beginning: range as a weapon, not a trick, on the loudest floor in the league.
03 · June 2015
The drought breaks
Golden State wins the Finals in six. First championship for the franchise since 1975. Curry is the regular-season MVP of a team that made the Bay feel new.
04 · February 27, 2016
The shot in Oklahoma City
Forty-six points, 12 threes, and a pull-up from another zip code with 0.6 on the clock. Overtime. Win. The call becomes furniture in Bay Area memory.
05 · April 13, 2016
402, and 73–9
A regular-season finale against Memphis: 46 points, 10 threes, 402 for the year, 73 wins for the club. Historic night. The spring that followed was something else.
06 · June 13, 2019
Lights out at Oracle
Finals Game 6 against Toronto. The last championship-round night in the Oakland building that raised the dynasty. The series ends. The building goes quiet. The work is not finished.
07 · December 14, 2021
Past Ray Allen
Back at Madison Square Garden, Curry makes the three that passes Allen for the most in NBA history. The record that had a name now has a new one.
08 · June 2022
Finals MVP
A fourth title, this one from San Francisco, against Boston. Game 4: 43 points and 10 rebounds. The series ends in six. The trophy that had waited finally has his name.
09 · August 2024
Gold in Paris
A first Olympics, a gold medal, and a shooting display that made a global tournament feel like another night he could see the rim from anywhere.