The record-breaking shot came with 7 minutes, 33 seconds left in the first quarter as Curry knocked down a 28-footer from the right wing off a pass from Andrew Wiggins.
I knew the Garden would deliver just in terms of how iconic this place is — I can’t say it enough, I appreciate so much the way the fans embraced the moment with me and let me kind of get lost in it.
Curry added: “It was a special moment for sure that I appreciate and I’ll remember for the rest of my life, in terms of what it means to me to pass Ray.
He took the ball that he was clutching in his arm and handed it to his father, Dell, on the floor as the Madison Square Garden crowd gave him a rousing standing ovation.
Then Curry, who had tried to deflect the significance of the moment over the past couple of weeks, couldn’t hold it back anymore.
Miller and Allen presented Curry with a Warriors jersey with the number 2,974 on the back after the game.
And now I can pride myself on the longevity of getting to that number that Ray set and hopefully pushing it to a number that nobody can reach.
“It was thrilling to see Steph break the NBA’s all-time record for three-pointers,” Silver said.
Curry finished 5-of-14 from 3-point range, bringing his career total to 2,978.
“Steph in the locker room was vintage Steph,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said.
“I always say not often do you have the opportunity to interact with someone great at something, let alone go to work with someone that is great, the absolute best at something,” Green said.
While everyone inside the Warriors organization wanted to see Curry break the record, they also knew that talk of the mark was hovering over everything the team did.
That streak is second only to his stretch of 157 games with at least one 3-pointer from Nov., 13, 2014, to Nov.
When you kind of go through the ranks, you love the work that you put in and you love the results that come from it, but I told them it’s been an amazing journey being a part of the Warriors for these 12 and a half years.
As Curry got set to finish his postgame news conference, he was asked, now that he had the all-time 3-point record, who he thought was the greatest shooter of all time.