{"id":748,"date":"2021-04-23T18:32:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/?p=748"},"modified":"2021-04-23T18:32:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:32:48","slug":"steph-curry-breaks-kobe-bryants-30-over-33-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/2021\/04\/23\/steph-curry-breaks-kobe-bryants-30-over-33-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Steph Curry Breaks Kobe Bryant&#8217;s 30 over 33 Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Along Steph Curry\u2019s torrid scoring pace this year he\u2019s broken another record. Dropping 49 points in last night\u2019s game against the Philadelphia 76ers Steph Curry dropped 30-plus points for the 11th straight game. In doing so Curry surpassed a record set by the late, great Kobe Bryant for number of 30+ point games in a row over the age of 33. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the 11-game stretch Curry is averaging 40 points, 6 rebounds and 4.5 assists all while shooting 49% from deep and 54% from the floor. In the 49-point effort against the sixers Curry also happened to bury 10 threes, marking his sixth game this season with 10 or more three pointers while no other in player has more than 5 in their entire career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This historic hot streak has also pushed Chef Curry to the head of the pack for this year&#8217;s scoring title with the Warrior averaging 31.4 points per game to Washington Wizards&#8217; Bradley Beal&#8217;s 31.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-flourish wp-block-embed-flourish\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/5939276\/embed#?secret=HN60scJRr2\" data-secret=\"HN60scJRr2\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"575\" width=\"700\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The only thing holds Curry from being a serious MVP candidate this season is team success. As of today, Steph Curry is averaging 31.4 points on 49% shooting, during his unanimous MVP season he averaged 30.1 points while 50% shooting from the field. &nbsp;The catch is that the Warriors are below .500. MVP candidates are typically the best player on the best teams in the league. In the last 45 years only one player had been awarded MVP with a team less than 10 games over .500, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, in the 1975-76 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the torrential scoring whether the Warriors will make the playoffs is yet to be seen. The Warriors are 29-29, a game behind the eight placed Grizzlies, landing the Dubs in the play-in tournament but requiring them to win twice to qualify for the post season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Steph playing the Warriors are 28-22 and 1-7 without him. And with Klay Thompson injured, Draymond Green taking a step back offensively, James Wiseman remaining an enigma and seldom help from Andrew Wiggins, the Warriors playoff fate sits on Curry\u2019s shoulders. Despite the historic scoring explosion Chef Curry&#8217;s play is indicative of the Warriors dire straits offensively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-genially wp-block-embed-genially\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Steph Curry Graphic\" frameborder='0' width='800' height='1600' src='https:\/\/view.genial.ly\/60825508aecb1b0d6ffbe0bf#?secret=6wL70iZI5Y' data-secret='6wL70iZI5Y' scrolling='yes'><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along Steph Curry\u2019s torrid scoring pace this year he\u2019s broken another record. Dropping 49 points in last night\u2019s game against the Philadelphia 76ers Steph Curry dropped 30-plus points for the 11th straight game. In doing so Curry surpassed a record set by the late, great Kobe Bryant for number of 30+ point games in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[130,127,132,126,125,128,129],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-76ers","tag-bradley-beal","tag-kareem-abdul-jabbar","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-steph-curry","tag-warriors","tag-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}