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NBA players are piling up points -- here's what's driving the league's record performances

No player is more synonymous with the modern NBA's offensive evolution than Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry.

He is the only player in NBA history to make more than 400 3-pointers in a single NBA season, and the only one to make more than 3,000 in his career. For a decade, he has been the face of the NBA's most successful team, a four-time champion and a two-time MVP.

And yet, after a recent win over the Philadelphia 76ers, Curry marveled at the way Philadelphia's star center, Joel Embiid, had gotten virtually whatever he wanted throughout a 46-point performance -- including a stretch of 13 consecutive points in the fourth quarter.