“I made the first one in transition,” Curry explained. Curry said Golden State runs the play often, but Andrew Wiggins “never passes out of that play,” according to Draymond Green. The record-setting bucket came at the 7:32 mark on a play that Curry didn’t even expect to get the ball. All-Time Leaderboard: 3-Pointers MadeĬurry wasted no time launching his first shot of the game from deep, sinking a 29-footer barely one minute into the action to give the Warriors a 5-2 lead. Well, Curry now needs to knock down just 23 more 3-pointers to reach 3,000 for his career, a threshold no player in NBA history has reached. The Warriors guard broke the record over the course of 789 games - 511 fewer than it took Allen (1,300) to reach the milestone.Ĭurry has said that once he breaks the record, everything else would “just be about how far can you push it.” But Steph made it a different game.”Ĭurry nailed a pair of first-quarter triples to move past Ray Allen and seize the top spot on the NBA’s list for all-time made 3-pointers and finished the game with five 3s and a team-high 22 points. “So, on a night when he broke the record, the sum of both teams’ 3-point attempts was kind of a testament to Steph’s impact on the league. “There were 82 3-pointers taken tonight,” he said. In the aftermath of Curry becoming the NBA’s all-time leader in career 3-pointers Tuesday in a 105-96 victory over the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, Kerr counted the combined attempts from long distance for both teams. NEW YORK - Steve Kerr scanned the box score and alerted the room to the figure popping off the page illustrating Stephen Curry’s impact on the game. Stephen Curry claims the NBA's 3-point record on one of the game's brightest stages.