Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry has been named the 2015 Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year, the AP announced today. Curry joins Larry Bird (1986), Michael Jordan (1991-93) and LeBron James (2013) as the only basketball players to earn the honor since the award’s inception in 1931, topping golfer Jordan Spieth and Triple Crown winner American Pharoah for the award.
In 2015, Curry led the Warriors to their first NBA championship in 40 years following a franchise-record 67-win season and joined Wilt Chamberlain (1959-60) as the only players in franchise history to be named the league’s Most Valuable Player. The 6’3” guard broke his own single-season NBA record by hitting 286 three-pointers in 2014-15, his third consecutive year leading the league in threes.
Following the championship season, Curry and the Warriors began the 2015-16 campaign with a 24-0 record, the best start in NBA history, winning a total of 28-straight regular season games for the second-longest win streak in league annals. Now in his seventh NBA season, Curry currently leads the league in scoring with 30.8 points per game for the NBA-best 28-1 Warriors.
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