SAN FRANCISCO — Three seasons after becoming the first NBA player to make 3,000 career 3-pointers, Steph Curry became the first NBA player to reach 4,000 made 3s on Thursday night as the Golden State Warriors hosted the Sacramento Kings.
Curry needed just two made 3s entering Thursday night’s matchup against the Kings.
He hit a wide-open corner 3 for No. 3,999 in the first quarter and then reached the milestone with 8:18 left in the third, turning a scramble drill into a pump-fake, side-step 3 from the right wing. The crowd erupted into an elongated standing ovation and “MVP” chant.
Every three is a record. This one sets an entirely new standard.
4⃣, 0⃣0⃣0⃣ CAREER THREES for Stephen Curry 🎯 pic.twitter.com/lkU7EqfSii
— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) March 14, 2025
During the next timeout, the Warriors organization commemorated the accomplishment with a tribute video that included many current and former teammates sharing their reflections, including Andris Biedriņš, the team’s center from Curry’s rookie season who assisted on Curry’s first career made 3. Curry watched the video and acknowledged the crowd as his teammates clapped around him.
While Curry is already considered the greatest shooter in the sport’s history, this wasn’t considered a milestone accomplishment for him. The mark was anticipated and celebrated only lightly by Curry and the Warriors in the lead-up.
It is, however, another notable checkpoint in a shooting career that has set the standard in the stratosphere. Curry, who will turn 37 this week, entered Thursday already having made 251 3s this season, leading the league at 4.5 per game. With two years left on his contract, he isn’t slowing down. The 5,000 mark doesn’t seem far-fetched.
“I feel like I’m living a constant dream,” Curry said in New York last week. “It’s cool that there’s that joke that I set a new record every time I hit a 3. But I try not to think about it too much, because last time I did, I psyched myself out for like a five-game stretch.”
Curry is referring to a slump in the early portion of the 2021-22 season when he struggled with his accuracy while chasing down Ray Allen’s then-record of 2,973 career 3s. Curry is now more than 1,000 past that mark and still rising.
James Harden, at 3,124 made 3s, ranks second in history. Damian Lillard (2,792) and Klay Thompson (2,665) should pass Allen in the next two seasons. But none of the three will near Curry’s career mark, wherever it eventually lands.
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