Daily NBA Fix: Stephen Curry, Tim Duncan Break Their Dads’ Career Marks

So far this season it has been impossible to avoid talking about Stephen Curry as he continues to knock down 3-pointer after 3-pointer as the Golden State Warriors march out to an 11-0 record. On Saturday night it was in a 107-99 win over the Brooklyn Nets.

With Curry’s third 3-pointer on the night and his 1,246th in his career, he passed his father at 42nd on the all-time list for made 3-pointers.

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Curry is still on a blistering pace of 424.9-of-939.3 for the season from 3-point range if he keeps this up. Last season he averaged 8.1 attempts a game, but so far he’s been hoisting up 11.5 when he steps on the court. He’s been making 5.2 a game compared to 3.6 a contest a season ago and 51.7 percent compared to last season’s 48.7 percent.

Logic says he’ll regress, but so far he’s shot more than 10 3-pointers in all but three of the Warriors’ 11 games.

But let’s stop talking about the reigning MVP for a moment and talk about some history in the form of the living legend Tim Duncan

With his 2,955th career block Duncan passed David Robinson on the all-time blocks list on Saturday night against the 76ers, winning 92-83.

Duncan’s father isn’t David Robinson but if we’re tracking the lineage of the center position, much less the Spurs, then Duncan would be a step down from Robinson on the family tree. There is no doubt though that Robinson helped influence Duncan and his game to help him become the eventual hall of famer he will be one day.

He may be on be creeping his way towards my Murtaugh List, but he’s still proving himself to be one of the league’s best big men with his savvy as he grows gets older.

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Duncan’s move to fifth on the all-time list in more impressive than Curry’s walk through the 40s, but it won’t be long before Curry is creeping up on the all-time numbers.

Even if we just use Curry’s career averages (not his current pace or even his averages from the past few seasons), we can project where he’ll be on the all-time list for the years to come.  By the end of this season, he would pass J.R. Smith (1,479 made) in 24th with 1,481 made. At the end of the 2019 season, he would break the 2,000 mark and pass Paul Pierce (2,061) with 2,194 made.

And if we extend his career averages through 2023 when Curry turns 35, he would pass Ray Allen (2,973) in the No.1 spot with a total of 3,145.

Of course, that’s going off him making 2.2 and taking 6.6 3-pointers per a game, well below the 3-of-8 he’s roughly averages over the past three seasons. What I’m saying that it’s very likely Curry will be breaking those marks well before when I projected. Those are conservative estimates.

Curry’s relentless assault on history doesn’t look to be slowing anytime soon.

Jarrett Jack Duels Against Curry

Jarrett Jack has been one of the few bright spots in the Brooklyn Nets’ miserable 1-8 start, but even his 28 points wasn’t good enough to keep pace with Curry’s 34 as the Warriors picked up win No. 11 on the season.

Jabari Looks Fine To Me

After seeing injuries derail his rookie season, it was been great to see Jabari Parker begin to get things going.

On Saturday night, he and the Milwaukee Bucks knocked off the Cleveland Cavaliers, 108-105.

Crawford Isn’t Too Old For This

With Chris Paul and J.J. Redick on the mend, the Los Angeles Clippers needed someone to step up and fill the gap on Saturday. The 35-year old Jamal Crawford did just that as he dropped 37 points on the Detroit Pistons in a 101-96 victory for the Clippers.

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Oh yeah, that Blake Griffin guy scored 34, that might have helped too.