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Today's Birthday, March 14: American basketballer Stephen Curry (1988 - )
Steph Curry has made his long-awaited NBA return from a broken hand - and boy has Golden State missed him.
The three-time NBA champion made his first appearance for the Warriors since October 30 against the Toronto Raptors in February.
Golden State adopted a cautious approach to Curry's recovery after Australian big man Aron Baynes accidentally crushed his left hand.
Having already lost injured free agent Kevin Durant to Brooklyn and Klay Thompson to an ACL, the Warriors have rapidly gone from NBA finalists to bottom-feeders in a matter of months.
The Warriors had the worst record in the league at the time of Curry's comeback, but are expected to improve down the stretch with their two-time MVP back in the line-up.
His late-season return gives Curry a chance to gel with new teammate Andrew Wiggins, who arrived from Minnesota in February in a high-profile trade involving D'Angelo Russell.
Steph Curry changed the game.
He was born in 1988 in Akron, Ohio - coincidentally at the very same hospital as future rival LeBron James.
But as the eldest son of Hornets great Dell Curry, he grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Running around NBA locker rooms in his youth, and having a three-point shooting legend for a father, Curry had basketball advantages other youngsters could only dream of.
Yet his path to the NBA was hardly set in stone.
The skinny teenage guard was recruited to Davidson College, leading the unheralded program to the Elite 8 of the 2008 NCAA tournament.
After Minnesota passed on him twice in favour of other point guards, Curry was selected by Golden State with the seventh pick of the 2009 NBA Draft.
The 191cm sharpshooter impressed in his first two seasons but ankle and https://imperivmeditor.altervista.org/wikimperivm/index.php?title=Nick_Kyrgios_Is_Happy_To_Be_Called_The_apos;Dennis_Rodman_Of_Tennis_apos; foot injuries cruelled his third campaign before he signed a four-year, $US44 million contract extension.
It proved to be one the biggest bargain contracts in NBA history as Curry evolved into a superstar, revolutionising basketball with his three-point shooting as the Warriors won the 2015 championship.
Along with a league-wide salary cap spike in 2016, Curry's cheap deal allowed the Warriors to controversially recruit Durant from Oklahoma City.
The Warriors' "Big Four" of Curry, Durant, Thompson and Draymond Green was as fearsome as pundits predicted, with the side winning back-to-back titles in 2017 and 2018.
