Stephen Curry has been named a starter on the NBA Western Conference All-Star team for the second consecutive year.
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry has been named a starter on the NBA Western Conference All-Star team for the second consecutive year, the league announced today. Curry, a two-time All-Star and the first Warriors player to be named an All-Star starter in two-straight years since Chris Mullin (1991 & 1992), earned the most votes of any NBA player, receiving a total of 1,513,324 votes in the final returns of NBA All-Star Balloting 2015. Curry joins Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr and his coaching staff on the Western Conference All-Star team after it was announced today that the Warriors had clinched the best record in the West through games played Feb. 1.
Curry, 26, is averaging 23.2 points (sixth in the NBA) and 8.1 assists (fifth) to go with career highs of 4.8 rebounds and a league-leading 2.10 steals in 33.0 minutes through 40 games this season. The sixth-year point guard is shooting a career-best 50.1 percent from the field, including 40.2 percent from three-point range, and 91.5 percent from the free throw line (fourth), on pace to join the eight players in NBA history who have hit percentages of 50/40/90 through the course of an entire season: Kevin Durant, Steve Nash, Jose Calderon, Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Kerr, Reggie Miller, Mark Price and Larry Bird.
Curry also ranks third in the NBA in three-point field goals (121) and is tied for the league lead in 20-point/10-assist games (nine) and 30-point/10-assist games (three). Curry is on pace to average at least 23 points, eight assists and four rebounds for the second consecutive season, which would join him with Oscar Robertson, Jerry West and Gary Payton as the only players ever to post those figures in back-to-back campaigns. The franchise’s all-time three-point leader, Curry hit his 1,000th career three-pointer in his 369th career game on Jan. 7 vs. Indiana, becoming the fastest player in NBA history to reach the milestone by playing 88 fewer games than Dennis Scott, who had previously accomplished the feat in 457 contests.