Stephen Curry is a Martian sent to this planet to overload our brains with basketball insanity that is impossible to comprehend.
OK, maybe not, but close enough.
Curry finished with a game-high 46 points, and the Golden State Warriors made 18 three-pointers as the defending NBA champions put on a show in defeating the young Minnesota Timberwolves, 129-116, at the Target Center on Thursday.
The high in Minneapolis on Thursday was 44 degrees. For such a cool day, the league's reigning MVP was as hot as the sun in the first quarter. Curry scored 21 points in the game's opening frame, shooting 6-of-9 from the floor and making four of five three-point attempts. Here's the shot chart, courtesy of ESPN Stats & Info:
The Warriors are now 10-0, their best start in franchise history, and Curry has scored 20 or more points in a quarter four times already this year. Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook led the NBA with four 20-point quarters last season, per ESPN Stats & Info.
Curry has now scored 333 points so far this year, which are the most through that ...
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