With his administration for the three -point throw, Stephen Curry changed basketball. In numerous playoff battles, the superstar of the Golden State Warriors made decisions. However, his most important goal occurred at the beginning of his career, as he now revealed himself.
“In my eyes it is the litter against Gonzaga when I played for Davidson,” said four-time NBA champion on his days at the Davidson Wildcats in conversation Complex to a memory from the NCAA.
“Everyone has these moments when things were going differently, life could have taken a completely different direction. I really have the feeling that it was a crucial moment-not only in terms of our March Madness run back then, because it was only the first round. It was undecided just under a minute before the end.”
The throw that the 37-year-old thinks occurred in the first round of March Madness 2008. At that time, Curry scored a breathtaking 40 points for the clear underdog against the Gonzaga Bulldogs, who was able to write a Cinderella story this year.
Curry: “From there everything got rolling”
In 39 minutes, the Guard 14 of his 22 litters from the field and 8 from 10 threes. The most important throw of the evening, which Curry pointed out 17 years later, brought his team a minute before the end with 77:74. A tour that you would no longer give that evening.
Despite the reservations against his game and his body, Curry’s heroic achievements catapulted him to the radar of the NBA scouts. “Andrew Lovedale, my big man at Davidson, won the most important offensive rebound-and it was like in slow motion,” Curry recalled. “He grabbed the rebound with one hand, threw the ball to me. I hit the throw and we went into the lead with three points. From then on, everything started in the tournament.”
Curry shared that evening for the rapid career, which then developed: “Then of course your level of awareness rises a bit, and you take this self -confidence with you. Not that I would not have made it somehow if we had lost the game – but that was a big moment. If the throw hadn’t gone in, who knows how everything would have developed.”
In his career, Curry already netted numerous iconic litters, not least at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, where he threw Team USA with a series of wild threes about the gold medal.