You ever watch someone do something so well, for so long, that you forget they\u2019re mortal? That\u2019s Stephen Curry with a basketball in his hands at the three-point line.<\/p>\n
And now, sitting on the sidelines at All-Star Weekend 2026 with a bum knee, he casually dropped a bombshell during his NBC interview: he\u2019s coming back to the 3-point contest in Phoenix next year. Oh, and he wants Klay Thompson and Damian Lillard there with him.<\/p>\n
Curry\u2019s relationship with the three-point contest has always been fun. He won it in 2015 with a then-record 27 points in the final round, draining 13 straight shots like he was playing warmups at an empty Oracle Arena. The next year, Klay beat him in Toronto with 27 of his own, matching Steph\u2019s record in the ultimate Splash Brothers showdown. Then Curry came back in 2021, dropped a ridiculous 31 in the first round, and won the whole thing on his final shot. Drama. Theater. Pure Steph.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t new for Steph. The three-point contest isn\u2019t just some side show he decided to enter for fun. It\u2019s in his blood, woven into the fabric of who he is as a player and as a person. Picture this: 1994 NBA All-Star Weekend in Minneapolis. A six-year-old Stephen Curry, sitting courtside with his brother Seth, watching their father Dell Curry compete in the three-point shootout. Dell didn\u2019t win that night, but that doesn\u2019t matter. What matters is the image seared into young Steph\u2019s brain: his dad, under the bright lights, shooting for glory in front of the world. The racks lined up, crowd buzzing, and the crisp swish of the net. That\u2019s where the dream got planted.<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s the thing: Curry hasn\u2019t touched that contest since Atlanta five years ago. And in those five years, he\u2019s continued to rewrite the record books, continued to make shots that shouldn\u2019t exist, continued to prove that he didn\u2019t just change the game, he is the game now. The man is 37 years old, shooting 39.1% from three this season, and he\u2019s still the most dangerous shooter who\u2019s ever lived. Damian Lillard just won his third contest this past weekend, joining elite company. Curry could join that club too with one more win in Phoenix.<\/p>\n
Think about what that would mean. Three 3-point contest titles. The all-time leader in made threes. Eight scoring titles from beyond the arc. A legacy built on redefining what\u2019s possible from 30 feet. And he\u2019s doing it because he watched Dame win and thought, \u201cYeah, I\u2019m not done yet.\u201cThat\u2019s hunger. That\u2019s pride. That\u2019s the kind of competitive fire that made him who he is.<\/p>\n
And wanting Klay there? That\u2019s poetry. The Splash Brothers, back where they belong, competing for a crown that they\u2019ve owned more than any other duo in NBA history. The Warriors are the only team ever to have different players win the contest in back-to-back years. Steph in 2015, Klay in 2016. They made that event theirs. Bringing that energy back to Phoenix, with everything they\u2019ve been through, with everything the Warriors have been through? That\u2019s not just nostalgia. That\u2019s a statement.<\/p>\n
Curry was sitting there in street clothes, injured, unable to play in the All-Star Game he was voted into as a starter, and he\u2019s already thinking about next year. Already plotting his return: imagining the racks, the money balls, the roar of the crowd when he gets hot. You think he\u2019s washed? You think his time is up? He\u2019s about to remind everyone exactly who he is.<\/p>\n
Phoenix 2027. The Chef\u2019s coming back to cook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You ever watch someone do something so well, for so long, that you forget they\u2019re mortal? That\u2019s Stephen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,479,164,64551,4025,4024,6,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-605751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-golden-state","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors-discussion","12":"tag-goldenstate","13":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116078554828911243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}