1988
Akron, then Charlotte
Wardell Stephen Curry II is born in Akron, Ohio, on March 14, 1988, and grows up in Charlotte, North Carolina, while his father Dell Curry plays in the NBA. The family number is 30.
TIMELINE
A career you can walk without a live stat sheet.
Year-marks and public turns. We skip rumor, omit moving totals, and leave scouting-report gossip on the floor.
Number 30, in order
From a family digit to a league landmark.
2006–09
Davidson
Curry plays three seasons at Davidson College. As a sophomore he leads a 10-seed to the Elite Eight of the 2008 NCAA tournament. As a junior he leads NCAA Division I in scoring. He enters the draft after that season and later finishes a sociology degree in 2022.
2009
Seventh overall
On June 25, 2009 — Dell Curry’s birthday — the Golden State Warriors select Stephen Curry seventh overall. Minnesota takes two guards just ahead of him. He will spend his entire NBA career with one franchise.
2009–12
Oakland apprenticeship
The first seasons are at Oracle Arena: All-Rookie First Team, then ankle trouble that costs most of a lockout-shortened year. In 2012 the backcourt is remade around him. The shooting is already loud. The body is still catching up.
2012–13
The first record, and Splash
Curry sets a then-NBA record with 272 regular-season threes, passing Ray Allen’s 269. He and Klay Thompson are nicknamed the Splash Brothers. In February he drops 54 points on 11 threes at Madison Square Garden.
2015
MVP, and a title after 40 years
Steve Kerr’s first season as coach. Curry wins MVP. Golden State wins the 2015 NBA championship, the franchise’s first since 1975, closing the series in Cleveland in six games.
2015–16
Unanimous, 73–9, 402
Curry becomes the first unanimous MVP. He leads the league in scoring at 30.1 points per game, joins the 50–40–90 club, and makes 402 threes. The Warriors finish 73–9, then lose the Finals after leading 3–1.
2017–18
Back-to-back
Golden State wins the 2017 and 2018 championships. Curry signs a supermax extension in 2017. The run still lives at Oracle, in a building that sounds like a freight train when the arc is true.
2019
Last night in Oakland, first night in the city
The Warriors fall to Toronto in the Finals. Game 6, June 13, 2019, is the last championship-round night at Oracle. That fall the team opens Chase Center in San Francisco’s Mission Bay. Stephen and Ayesha Curry launch Eat. Learn. Play., rooted in Oakland.
2021
Second scoring title, then the record
Curry wins a second scoring title at 32.0 points per game. On December 14, 2021, at Madison Square Garden, he passes Ray Allen to become the NBA’s all-time leader in three-pointers made.
2022
Finals MVP in San Francisco
A fourth championship, this time from Chase Center, against Boston. Curry is named Finals MVP. In Game 4 of that series he scores 43 points with 10 rebounds. Davidson retires his No. 30 the same year he graduates.
2024
Paris gold
Curry wins Olympic gold with the United States in Paris, adding a first Olympic medal to earlier FIBA World Cup golds from 2010 and 2014.