Stephen Curry calls Paris 2024 "Golden Dagger" the best 3-pointer in his storied career
The Paris 2024 champion described his last 3-pointer in USA's final against France as the most significant shot in a career which counts nearly 4,000 triples.
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With almost 4,000 3-pointers in his professional career, Stephen Curry has plenty of memorable basketball shots to reminisce about, but one ranks at the top – the last in a flurry of 3-pointers he shot in the Olympic Games Paris 2024 gold medal final, to seal USA's men's team victory over France.
Curry described the shot, dubbed the "Golden Dagger", as the No.1 3-pointer in his career during his appearance on Dubs Talk when the podcast hosts asked him to compare the Paris 2024 shot and the "Double Bang" from 2016. Curry scored that NBA game winner in overtime against Oklahoma City while wearing a Golden State jersey.
The "Golden Dagger" was the eighth and final 3-pointer that Curry shot in the Olympic final. Four of these eight shots came in the last three minutes of the game to take the score to 98-87 for Team USA and earn them a fifth straight Olympic title.
It marked the first Olympic medal for 36-year-old Curry, who was making his Games debut at Paris 2024.
"It was the end of a four 3-point flurry that is still very surreal to me," Curry told Dubs Talk. "At this stage in my career, the fact that I hadn't played in the Olympics before, there was so much excitement and build-up for me just about being a part of Team USA basketball and being a part of the American Olympic team, taking all of the sites and sounds. For that to have a crescendo moment like that was crazy."
Curry had previously dazzled the crowds at Paris 2024 with another spectacular display of his 3-point shooting skills when he hit nine out of 14 shots from deep against Serbia in the semi-finals to bring USA back from behind and win the game 95-91.