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Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry didn’t play Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game, but he still managed to steal a moment before the festivities began.

During NBC’s pregame coverage, Curry casually launched a deep shot from the NBA on NBC set — and in true Curry fashion, knocked it down, adding yet another entry to his growing collection of absurd marksmanship.

Curry’s absence from this year’s showcase didn’t dampen his All-Star energy for long. The Warriors guard has already started building anticipation for next season, teasing a return to the three-point contest and the possibility of a showdown featuring several of the league’s elite shooters, including this year’s champion Damian Lillard and former Warriors teammate and Splash Brother Klay Thompson.

Even without a uniform on Sunday, Curry still found a way to put on a show and build excitement, reminding everyone why he remains one of the NBA’s brightest stars.

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Warriors News:Stephen Curry to make return to 3-point contest in 2027 | ESPN

Stephen Curry will make his return to the 3-point competition next year in Phoenix, he announced on NBC on Sunday.

Perhaps buoyed by seeing fellow veteran Damian Lillard win the contest in Los Angeles, Curry made the announcement during the All-Star Game, where he is out with a knee injury. Curry added that he will try to persuade former teammate Klay Thompson to join him in the contest.

Draymond Green would ‘love’ to become NBA commissioner after playing career | NBC Sports Bay Area

Green told Bayless he believes it is his duty to uplift the NBA, citing a mentor who helped shape his illustrious career.

“Pete Myers — I’m sure you know Pete Myers, he was an assistant coach my first two years under Mark Jackson — he used to tell me a couple of things,” Green told Bayless. “He would say, ‘Hey, Draymond, a couple of things I want you to always remember in this league — as long as you’re dealing with this league, you owe it to the game to leave it in a better place than it was when you found it.’

“And he said, ‘You get paid in this league for the next young guy to get paid.’ It’s so often in this league [that] you hear guys complaining about, ‘Oh, man, this young guy is now making this,’ or you hear how an older guy tried to crush a younger guy, and it derails a young guy’s career. And [Myers] was always telling me, ‘You get paid for the next young guy in this league to come along to get paid.’”

Warriors are the NBA’s most valuable franchise at $10.8 billion, according to CNBCNBA News:NBA commissioner Adam Silver touches on variety of topics at All-Star Saturday | NBA

Economists will tell you that whatever you incentivize in a system, you’ll get more of. The current setup incentivizes losing.

“It’s time to take a fresh look at this to see to whether that’s an antiquated way of going about doing it,” the commissioner said. “Ultimately, we need a system to fairly … distribute players.

“What we’re doing, what we’re seeing now is not working.”

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When we look back on the Steph Curry era of the Golden State Warriors, the most prominent enemy of the team was clearly LeBron James. If the Warriors were the X-Men, James is Magneto, leading an ever-changing, ever-relocating Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. But Chris Paul was more like the Doctor Octopus to Curry’s Spider-Man, a highly intelligent, stocky man doomed to continually fall short against his rival, undone by injuries, bad luck, the resourcefulness of his opponent and too much whining. Wait, that last one doesn’t really describe Doc Ock.

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