The chorus arrived with 2:23 left on the game clock Monday night. As Stephen Curry took his seat during a timeout, a sellout Oracle Arena crowd rained “M-V-P!” down on the man who has won the award the past two seasons.
Curry had just set an NBA record with his 13th three-pointer, breaking the single-game mark he had previously shared with Kobe Bryant and Donyell Marshall. Such long-range heroics helped the Warriors sidestep a head-scratching letdown in their 116-106 win over the Pelicans.
Three days after snapping his NBA-record streak of 157 straight outings with a three, Curry poured in a game-high 46 points on 16-of-26 shooting (13-of-17 from beyond the arc).