Watch: Stephen Curry Sets Brand New NBA Finals Record

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry set a new NBA Finals record, and he was brilliant in Game 1 of the 2019 Finals against the Toronto Raptors. Curry became the first All-Star to make 100 threes in the Finals.

Curry had a lot of opportunities, and that’s exactly what a basketball player needs to set records. He and his team made the Finals for five consecutive years, and Curry knew how to use that. The guard knows how to sent the ball flying from long distance. He has a lot of three-point records, and this was is just another record in his hands.

The player is also interested in the team’s reputation, and the Golden State has been rocked with speculations and rumors. Most of them are related to Kevin Durant and his free agency decision. Curry jumped in defending his teammate, and sent a very clear message to those who criticized his squad.

“I feel like for the last three years, everybody has taken their shots at trying to nitpick or break us down or drive a wedge in our team chemistry or our togetherness or whatever the case is,” Curry said of the criticism. “And even this year, it’s been amplified even more with (Durant’s) free-agency stuff. Nobody can say anything without it getting scrutinized or criticized. Nobody can be happy when people are playing well. That’s the part, to me, that’s most surprising. If it’s KD playing well, it’s ‘Oh, they’re playing a different style and it’s not as fun to watch.’ Or when he’s out and we’re winning games, ‘Are we better or more fun,’ whatever the question is, you hear it all the time.”

The Warriors made the Finals, and that says pretty much everything you should know about the team. That’s what Curry tried to explain during his session with media members.

“We are one group, until we’re not,” he said. “I don’t think we’re going to let any noise around us – as frustrating or entertaining or whatever you want to call it is on a daily basis – break us down in terms of distracting us from what the goal is.