Heading into this contest with the Sacramento Kings, everyone highly expected Steph Curry to be denied of any operating space whatsoever. The Mike Brown administration made sure of that through his copious doubles and traps whenever Curry touched the ball; Doug Christie went a step further than his predecessor by having defenders put hands on Curry off the ball, top-locking him away from screens, and skirting the line separating legal physical defense and fouling. That was a decree made even more paramount by the fact that Curry was only two threes away from 4,000 career three-point makes — a club he founded and, for the foreseeable future, will be its sole member.
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