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On Monday night, we saw the first 50 burger of the 2021-22 NBA season. 33-year old Steph Curry dropped 50 points on the Hawks’ heads to help improve the Golden State Warriors to 9-1 on the season which is insane considering Klay Thompson hasn’t even laced up his sneakers yet.
Tenth career 50-point game for Steph Curry.
Incredible 💦 pic.twitter.com/UP7VuOC4tQ
— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) November 9, 2021
Here’s Steph Curry’s ridiculous stat lines from last night:
- 50 points
- 14-for-28 shooting
- 9-for-19 from 3
- 13-for-13 from the free throw line
- 7 rebounds
- 10 assists
- 3 steals
- 1 block
- +31 plus-minus
It is insane to have this much scoring responsibility while still impacting the game in all of these different ways. Curry’s 13th season in the league and he’s grabbing the most rebounds he’s ever gotten. This maniac is still improving somehow.
But what made this 50-point game noteworthy was the guy whose eyes got dotted all night long.
Since college, Trae Young was billed as the next Steph Curry. They’re both undersized guards who recklessly shoot from any location on a basketball court. Cool. But they are not the same creature at all.
Trae led the Hawks to the Eastern Conference Finals last season and congrats. That was impressive, I reckon. Whatever. Jayson Tatum led the Boston Celtics to the Eastern Conference Finals once and Boston hasn’t even come close since. He and Marcus Smart are strangling each other in the locker room after L’s like Homer and Bart Simpson.
Let’s stop talking about Trae as if he’s Steph-ish because he has never balled out the way Curry has this year. Atlanta has a stacked roster on paper and they’re currently 4-7. They stink. They’re not the next team up. Trae isn’t the next Steph. Honestly, I’d prefer to have Ja Morant as my starting point guard over the small child who just got 50 points bounced on his cranium.
There was no pass torching ceremony. However, there was a fire.
