In the regular season, the Warriors ranked third in the West with a record of 53 wins and 29 losses, winning three games less than the Grizzlies, Stephen Curry's offensive efficiency declined across the board, but Curry still set a record, and he surpassed Rick Barry to become the first person in Warriors history in this data.
Prior to this season, Curry shot more than 45.0 percent and three-pointers in each season except for the 2019-20 season, in which he played only 5 regular season games due to injury, but in this season Curry only shot 43.7 percent from the field and 38.0 percent from three-point range in 64 regular season games. Averaging 6.5 points per game after averaging more playing time per game than the previous season, Curry shot 48.2 percent from the field and 42.1 percent from three-point range in the regular season last season.
Curry's sharp decline in offensive efficiency in the regular season is an indisputable fact, but it is not easy for Curry, who has turned 34 years old to play in the case of serious injuries and a big change in the lineup, he has 25.5 points, 5.2 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 1.3 steals in 64 regular season games, and is one of the seven players in the league who have averaged 25+5+5 per game this season.
This is the sixth time in Curry's NBA career that he has averaged 25+ points per game in a single season regular season, officially surpassing Chris Mullin and Wilt Chamberlain in this statistic to become the first person in Warriors history. Nine players in the Warriors' long team history have averaged 25+ points per game in a single season, and no less than four of them have been Rick Barry in addition to the three people mentioned above.
This is the fifth time in Curry's NBA career that he has averaged 25+5+5 per game in a single season, while the Warriors' history has only played a single-season regular season average of 25+5+5 in a total of 6 other players, and no other player has exceeded 2 times. In this data NBA history ranking, Curry officially completed the surpassing of Larry Bird, Maddy and Wei Shao, ranking 8th in history! If Curry once again plays such a single-season performance, Curry will rise to a tie for No. 5 on the NBA all-time list for this statistic.
A lot of people are saying that LeBron James is old, but many people are ignoring that Curry is no longer young. In the long history of the NBA, only Inglish, Bernard King, Dominic Wilkins, Michael Jordan, Carl Malone, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Stephen Curry can average 25+ points per game in a single season after the age of 33, of which only Kobe, James and Curry are left with 25+5+5! Kobe Bryant has left us, James is fishing, and is looking forward to Curry's excellent performance in this playoffs!