Stephen Curry lived his stellar shooting night since he arrived in the NBA by scoring 62 points in the game that his team, the Golden State Warriors, won this Sunday by 137-122 against the Portland Trail Blazers.
Curry finished the game with 18 of 31 shots from the field , including 8 of 16 from triples, and hit 18 of 19 from the personnel line, in addition to capturing five rebounds and distributing four assists in the 36 minutes he was on the Chase Center court, San Francisco.
The Warriors’ star point guard started the game scoring from every position on the field, with 22 points in the first quarter, without the Trail Blazers’ defense being able to control him.
Curry managed for the twenty-seventh game to score 20 or more points in a single period as a professional.
The Blazers had no answer for Curry’s dominance, as the All-Star point guard found enough room to throw the patented long-distance shots that have defined his career.
After a triple in the middle of the fourth quarter, Curry kept his scoring inspiration, despite the fact that the Chase Center bleachers this time could not participate in the excitement and spectacularity that his actions put in the former Warriors field the Oracle Arena, at the Oakland headquarters.
After scoring the eighth triple of the game with just under a minute to go, Curry excitedly ran down the court with his arms at his sides and was similarly greeted by teammate power forward Draymond Green.
After the game concluded, the Trail Blazers players congratulated Curry, including a point gurd Damian Lillard who gave him a hug before leaving the court.
No wonder: Curry had become the second player in NBA history to score more than 30 points in each half of the game. The other one who had succeeded was the mythical ‘Pistol’ Pete Maravich in 1977.
