For much of Steph Curry’s NBA career, the routine was simple for basketball fans:<\/p>\n
Stay up late with the Golden State Warriors<\/a> on the TV and watch the best shooter ever do things that the rest of the planet could only dream of.<\/p>\n He’s had so many special nights — that whole 73-win season, including the moonshot game-winner against the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> that everyone who watched remembers where they were when they saw that shot drop through.<\/p>\n And while the story has threatened to be over a handful of different times in recent years, there are still words being written.<\/p>\n More specifically: There’s still a legend being written.<\/p>\n MORE:\u00a0Warriors’ generational mistake may have cost Steph Curry<\/a><\/p>\n Curry, a player the likes of which the league has never seen and may never see again, has had the odds stacked against him the whole second half of this season.<\/p>\n He missed 27 games due to “runner’s knee.”<\/p>\n He’s without Jimmy Butler for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n The Warriors are just the 10-seed in the Western Conference, a mountain to climb to make any postseason noise.<\/p>\n But hey, they’ve got Curry.<\/p>\n He had an absurd second half against the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> in the play-in game, including the shot of the night, a stepback when everyone knew he was shooting and he shot it anyway:<\/p>\n STEPH CURRY GIVES THE WARRIORS THE LEAD!<\/p>\n GSW 120 50.4 TO PLAY IN A MUST-WIN GAME \ud83c\udf7f pic.twitter.com\/HgYTHtLlOp<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 NBA (@NBA) April 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n
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