Curry’s best scoring performance in the 2020-21 season happened on Jan. 3, 2021, when he scored 62 points (18-31 FG, 8-16 3Pt, 18-19 FT) in a 137-122 win over the Portland Trail Blazers.
Stephen Curry has cemented his place not only as one of the best shooters to ever step foot on an NBA hardwood. He also argues for being one of the best scorers not only of this generation, but in the history of the NBA, and he showed that in the 2020-21 campaign.
Curry led the NBA in scoring in the 2020-21 season after averaging 32.0 points per game. He was one of two players to average over 30 ppg in the regular season, with the other being Bradley Beal (31.3 ppg for the Wizards). The top-five in scoring that season was completed by Damian Lillard (28.8 ppg), Joel Embiid (28.5 ppg) and Giannis Antetokounmpo (28.1 ppg). Curry also led the league in total points in the 2020-21 season with 2,015.
Curry’s best scoring performance in the 2020-21 season happened on Jan. 3, 2021, when he scored 62 points (18-31 FG, 8-16 3Pt, 18-19 FT) in a 137-122 win over the Portland Trail Blazers. Curry also added five rebounds and four assists in that game, and that was one of three games in which Curry finished with over 50 points.
The other two 50-point performances from Curry in the 2020-21 campaign came against the Dallas Mavericks and the Denver Nuggets. The star floor general posted 57 points (19-31 FG, 11-19 3Pt, 8-8 FT) in a 134-132 loss to the Dallas Mavericks. Curry also finished with 53 points in a 116-107 win over the Nuggets, where he shot 14-for-24 from the field, 10-for-18 from 3-point range and 15-for-16 from the charity stripe.
Curry had 11 different games in which he reached the 40-point plateau, and he scored at least 30 points on 38 different occasions. His most productive month came in April, where Curry was scorching hot and averaged an impressive 37.3 points, 6.1 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game with a shooting line of .518/.466/.908. In that month, Curry scored at least 30 points in 10 consecutive games between April 1 and April 19. He reached the 30-point plateau in all but two of his 15 regular-season contests in that month.
Perhaps not as dominant as his April stretch, but February was another month where Curry showed he was one of the most dominant scoring forces in the NBA when everything was clicking for him. Curry averaged a robust 32.1 points, 6.8 assists and 5.4 rebounds per game while shooting 41.9 percent from 3-point range across 14 February outings.
Curry did more than just score in the 2020-21 season, as he also averaged 5.8 assists, 5.5 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game while shooting 42.1 percent from 3-point range. Curry, who made 63 regular-season starts in 2020-21, finished the season in third place in the MVP voting while also making the All-Star Game and the All-NBA 1st-Team.
Despite leading the NBA in scoring, Curry couldn’t lead the Warriors to the playoffs since Golden State didn’t qualify for the postseason. Despite finishing with a 39-33 record in the 72-game shortened regular season, Golden State couldn’t reach the 2021 NBA playoffs.
