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Interactive: Stephen Curry’s 15 40-point games after turning 35 — from 50 at the Clippers to 44 in Minneapolis, step by step
Wednesday's 44 at Minnesota was Stephen Curry's 15th 40-point game since he turned 35, tying LeBron James for the NBA record. Here are all 15, the 60 in Atlanta, the two in San Antonio and his 39-for-39 start at the line.
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Stephen Curry's 40-point games after 35, step by step
Wednesday's 44 in Minneapolis was Curry's 15th 40-point game since he turned 35, tying LeBron James for the NBA record. Here are all 15, from a 50-point night at the Clippers to a perfect free-throw night at 38.
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Forty-four in Minneapolis
The Warriors arrived at Target Center on Wednesday with a 1-3 record. The Timberwolves were playing their first game without Anthony Edwards, who was set for a cleanup procedure on his right knee.
Golden State kept running high screens for Curry to pull Rudy Gobert away from the basket. Curry scored 19 points in the second quarter and finished with 44 in a 119-114 win.
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“Stephen Curry has tied LeBron James for the most 40-point games after turning 35 years old in NBA history.”— The Warriors, after the game
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The count starts at 35
Curry turned 35 on March 14, 2023. He needed one game to start the list. The next night, at the Clippers, he scored 50 on 20-of-28 shooting. The Warriors still lost, 134-126.
Six weeks later he scored 50 more in Game 7 of the first round at Sacramento, a 120-100 win. That one does not count here: the record covers regular-season games only.
- Curry turns 35
- 50 points at the Clippers (No. 1)
- 50 points in Game 7 at Sacramento (playoffs, not counted)
- 41 at Sacramento, early in 2023-24 (No. 2)
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Six in one season
2023-24 was the busiest year of the run. Curry scored 40 or more six times, four of them within 19 days from Jan. 27 to Feb. 14, 2024.
The biggest was 60 points at Atlanta on Feb. 3, 2024, with 10 threes in an overtime loss, 141-134. A week earlier he had 46 in a double-overtime loss to the Lakers, 145-144.
- 41 at Sacramento, W 122-114
- 42 at New Orleans, W 130-102
- 46 vs. Lakers, L 145-144 (2OT)
- 60 at Atlanta, L 141-134 (OT)
- 42 at Indiana, 11 threes, W 131-109
- 41 vs. Clippers, L 130-125
40-point games after turning 35, by season
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56 in Orlando, 49 in San Antonio
All three in 2024-25 came after the All-Star break, and all three were road wins: 56 at Orlando with 12 threes, 40 at Brooklyn and 52 at Memphis, again with 12 threes.
Early in 2025-26 he scored 42 in an overtime win over Denver, then went to San Antonio twice in three days and scored 46 and 49. Both were Warriors wins. A month later he had 48 at Portland.
Points in each of the 15 games
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Fifteen games, by the numbers
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The Warriors went 10-5 in those games. Four of the five losses came in 2022-23 and 2023-24, including the 60-point night in Atlanta. Golden State has won seven of the last nine.
Curry also passed another mark on Wednesday: it was his 46th 40-point game since his 30th birthday, the most in NBA history.
Most 40-point games after turning 35
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Thirty-nine for thirty-nine
The Warriors lost their first three games. Curry scored 23 at the Lakers and 24 against Memphis, then sat out the loss in Phoenix. In Denver on Monday he went 8 for 8 from the field, only the second game of his career without a miss. Two nights later came the 44.
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“Stephen Curry is 39-for-39 from the line to start this season. That's the most makes without a miss in a player's first four games of a season in NBA history.”— The Warriors, Oct. 29
One more 40-point game would give Curry the record outright. The Warriors host the Lakers on Friday, then face the Clippers and the Suns.
Curry is 38 and in his 18th season. LeBron James, who also has 15, is 41. Of the five players with the most 40-point games after 35, four are still playing: Curry, James, Durant and Harden. Michael Jordan is the only one who is retired.
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