'NBA 2K16' Relives Steph Curry's Game-Winning Long-Distance Shot & Celebratory Dance [Video]
It was a thrilling overtime game and the score was tied. The shot clock was off as the final seconds of the game runs down. The ball was in the hands of the best player on the team as he threw a heave from 38 feet out. The shot went in and the road team won. It could very well be some scripted game or some fluke shot; only it was Steph Curry who took the shot and you know it's for real.
And, the moment was almost surreal you have to play it over and over again in replays. One fan even decided it had to be re-created in "NBA 2K16," wrote GameSpot.
The late sequence of the Golden State Warriors 121-118 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder where Curry took the game-winning a three-point shot from beyond the arc on Saturday, Feb. 27, is now available "NBA 2K16"-style courtesy of YouTube's Shady00018. You can watch the video below, which includes a glimpse of Curry's celebratory dance.
The incredible shot was just one of Curry's 12 long distance shots for the night. After the game, his total for the season was 288, enough to break his previous record of 286 during the 2014-2015 season.
"Honestly, I don't know exactly where I am, so it's not like I'm calibrating in my head, all right, 38 feet, 37, 36," Curry said via ESPN. "Just literally, you've got a sense of -- I've shot the shot plenty of times, you're coming across half court and timing up your dribbles, and you want to shoot before the defense goes in. And that was pretty much my only thought."
While it is still too early to tell for sure whether the current Warriors team can get past the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls of 1996 in terms of having the best regular season record in NBA history, Curry's team is definitely on pace.
The Warriors became the fastest team in league history to win 50 games after topping the Atlanta Hawks back in mid-February 2016. With Curry shooting the lights out night after night, doing it at crucial moments of the games and at an astonishing range in any part of the hard court, the Warriors are slowly inching their way to immortality and could soon overshadow the legendary Chicago Bulls' 72-10 record.
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