Analyzing how soon Stephen Curry will surpass Ray Allen's NBA record for most regular-season three-pointers
Stephen Curry put on a show for the Bay Area fans on Friday and got Chase Center roaring like Oracle Arena across the bridge used to. He dropped the jaws of everyone watching the Golden State Warriors annihilate the Chicago Bulls that night, en route to a 40-piece
He dropped nine three-pointers on 17 attempts and shot 62% from the field with just one free throw. Curry has established the Warriors as a legitimate title-contender this season. The narrative before the game was that they were facing bottom-table teams, so defeating the 8-3 Bulls by 26 points was a huge statement.
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40 PTS (15/25 FG) & 5 AST
36th game with 9+ 3PTS (Dame & Harden have 9 each)
Passes Ray Allen (3,358) for most career 3PTS in regular season + playoffs: 3,366
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During the game, Stephen Curry surpassed Ray Allen for the most three-pointers in NBA history, including playoffs. He did it in 585 fewer games than Allen. However, the record everyone is waiting for Curry to break is the coveted regular-season one.
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How long will we have to wait until Stephen Curry surpasses Ray Allen's regular-season three-point record?
Ray Allen scored 2,973 threes in his regular-season career, and Stephen Curry has 2896 so far. That puts Curry 77 three-pointers away from tying Allen and 78 to cross him.
Curry is currently averaging 5.3 three-pointers per game this season. He did so last season as well and his attempts have only gone up every year. He is shooting at a 40% clip from downtown (on 13.3 attempts per game), the lowest of his career.
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Many believe his shooting averages will only get better with time as the two-time MVP tends to erupt for absurd shooting nights. Over the last three matches, he has averaged 38.3 points per game on 47% shooting from beyond the arc.
Unsurprisingly, Stephen Curry is leading the NBA in three-pointers made with 64. He has led the league in that category six times in his career and tallied over 300 threes in a season four times, including an NBA record 402 threes in 2015-16. Going with his current pace, he is set for another season with 300 threes.
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Considering that he doesn't get injured and maintains his current rate, 78 more threes would take Curry 15 games. 15 matchups from today is the road game against the Indiana Pacers on December 14th
Many also predict that he will achieve it earlier, and that is certainly a possibility. Stephen Curry has recorded 22 games with 10+ three-pointers made and 36 games with more than nine three-pointers made, both NBA records by a long margin.
The baby-faced assassin is definitely not going to drop only around five threes a game and there will be many games where he erupts for nine or 10 threes. Considering his tendency to heat up at a moment's notice and the form he is in, we predict he will cross Allen's three-point record in about 12-13 games.
Even if we consider some off-shooting nights, one would expect Stephen Curry to overtake Allen's regular-season three-point record before Christmas this year.