In four straight games, Curry has made at least seven 3-pointers.

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Making at least seven 3-pointers in a single game was sufficient to put an end to the press for the majority of basketball history. Stephen Curry has made the evening at work seem somewhat ordinary. He repeated the feat on Wednesday, leading Golden State to a 130-125 loss to the Clippers with nine 3-pointers and 41 points.

Curry has now made at least seven 3-pointers for 129 times, an NBA record. Klay Thompson, the next closet guy, has completed the task 48 times. Curry has now made at least seven 3-pointers in four straight games. Nobody else in history has ever done that.

Here was the record breaker:

STEPH CURRY!

The 1st player in NBA history to hit 7+ 3-pointers in 4 consecutive games

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Here are Curry’s three-point shooting percentage and his total point totals from the last four games:

@ Utah: 7 for 16, 25 points; vs. Clippers: 9 for 19, 41 points

30 points, 9 for 16, against Phoenix

41 points, 11 for 16, at Indiana

If you do the math, that ties an NBA record with 36 3-pointers made in four games. Curry matched the record of whom? His personal. You get the idea. The man, who will soon turn 36, is on track to surpass his own record of 402 3-pointers made in a single season from 2015–16. (As of Wednesday night, he already had 250, and the Warriors still have 30 games left.)

Curry, though, was insufficient to secure the victory for the Warriors, who had the lead for the whole of the game. When the Clippers get going as a team from beyond the arc, they are simply too much, even without Kawhi Leonard. Their 3-point shooting is unmatched in depth. 

The Los Angeles Lakers only made 13 triples on Wednesday compared to Golden State’s 18 attempts. However, they heated up just perfect. In a four-minute and-change period in the fourth quarter, Norman Powell made four of his five 3-pointers, and a minute later, Amir Coffey added another. The Clippers overcame a five-point deficit to take a seven-point advantage during that time. 

With 39 seconds remaining, Brandin Podziemski narrowed Golden State’s deficit to three points, but Thompson committed a major mental error by intentionally fouling Russell Westbrook when the Warriors still had time to play the defensive possession straight up and still have time to recover the ball and attempt a game-tying three. 

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Both of Westbrook’s free throws were made. 

With nine seconds remaining, the Warriors were able to eventually block a failed Westbrook jumper, but they were unable to collect the rebound. Curry’s layup at the 31-second mark had cut the lead to three once more. That was all she wrote. James Harden made both free throws, so they had to foul him. 

The Warriors, who once more seemed to be in control of the game for a significant portion of the second half, suffer a harsh defeat. Their winning run of five games is finished. Nevertheless, they have won seven of the previous nine games, and if they win in Utah on Thursday—their final game before the All-Star break—they can make it eight wins in a row. 

While the Clippers are still one game behind the top spot in the loss column, Golden State is still in 10th place in the Western Conference, the final play-in slot.