It’s hard to come up with NBA content ideas in August — trust me. Free agency has completely dried up, the trade market is inactive, and there are still six more weeks until training camp. The Paris Olympics gave us some amazing basketball in the darkest part of the offseason, but after another gold medal run by USA Basketball, the NBA news cycle is likely to be quiet until the ramp up for the 2024-2024 season starts for real.
The enduring image from the men’s basketball tournament at the Paris Olympics will be Stephen Curry’s three-point explosion in the gold medal game against France. Curry hit four straight threes in crunch-time to secure the United States’ spot on top of the podium, and his final three — a deep, off-balanced rainbow over two French defenders — just might be the greatest shot of his career.
The people behind the NBA’s YouTube channel saw this as an opportunity to remind fans of all the big shots Curry has hit in his career. On Friday, the NBA dropped a nearly five hour video of Steph’s best clutch moments. It’s an amazing watch.
From the moment you press play, you know this is going to be so good. The video begins with a 2016 regular season game between the Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder — you know exactly the game if you’re a diehard NBA fan.
Curry goes bananas in the final minutes to force overtime. In the extra session, No. 30 pulls up from a few steps inside of the halfcourt line to drill one of the most amazing shots of his career and give the Warriors the win. It only gets better from there.
The video then goes into Game 4 of the 2022 NBA Finals. With the Boston Celtics holding a 2-1 series lead, Curry authors an electric 43-point performance to tie the series. Golden State would win the next two games to win their fourth championship.
This video has it all: Curry’s corner dagger over Anthony Davis in the 2015 NBA Playoffs on Golden State’s way to its first title. It has last season’s buzzer-beater to sink the Phoenix Suns. It has footage from every era of Curry’s career, from his NBA Finals heroics to regular season games that would otherwise be lost in history.
This is peak offseason content, and the NBA nailed it. I almost wish it was even longer.
