Stephen Curry walked into Portland like it was a MyCareer game on rookie and still left with an L on his stat line and a W in the history books. His 48-piece with 12 made threes pushed him past Michael Jordan for the most 40-point games _after_ turning 30, giving him 45 of those heaters and a new “old-head sniper” crown. It was his second game back from a quad contusion, and he treated it like a mixtape release, not a warmup.
Curry Turns the Moda Center Into a Shooting Lab
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Curry went 16-of-26 from the field and 12-of-19 from deep, casually tying the highest three-point mark anyone has hit in a game this season. It was the 28th time in his career he’s hit double-digit threes in a game, a number nobody else in NBA history is even close to touching. In the fourth alone he dropped 21 points and finished with 33 in the second half, turning every Blazers defensive possession into a cardio drill.
Blazers’ Squad Game > Curry’s Solo Mode
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Portland didn’t blink, though, and that’s why they walked out with a 136-131 win. Jerami Grant and Shaedon Sharpe each matched the moment with 35 points, while Deni Avdija slid in a quiet-but-deadly 26 points, 7 boards, and 8 dimes to keep the Blazers’ offense humming. The Blazers as a team were flamethrowers from deep, hitting 20-of-39 threes and shooting just over 51% from beyond the arc.
The Crunch-Time Chaos
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In classic Steph fashion, back-to-back threes in the third blew the Warriors’ lead out to nine and made it feel like another “Curry game” was loading. But down the stretch, every time Curry hit what felt like a dagger—like the three that put Golden State up 129-127 with under 90 seconds left—Portland punched right back, including a three-point play from Grant and clutch freebies from Avdija with under 20 seconds to go. A missed running layup by Curry with about 26 seconds left and a late turnover out of a trap turned into the kind of tiny mistakes that look huge on a box score the next morning.
Warriors’ Reality Check
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The loss dropped the Warriors to 13-14, their eighth defeat in 12 games, and kept their season stuck in that weird space between “dangerous” and “mid.” Portland, meanwhile, snapped a three-game skid and climbed to 10-16, riding a statement win that says their young core is done treating games like learning labs and ready to take scalps. Curry breaking a Jordan longevity record on a random December night is legendary, but the fact it came in another L might be the most 2025 Warriors thing possible.
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