Barclays Center was tingling long before 7:30 p.m. ET on Thursday night.
Steph Curry — and by extension, the Golden State Warriors — were in town. In 2025, we are not just sure that he is one of the greatest basketball players ever, but that there will never be another. Sooner or later, there will be a player whose “greatness” rivals or even surpasses that of Steph; that is the one inevitability of sport. But there will never be a player, a phenomenon, like him.
A week shy Steph’s his 37th birthday, this knowledge is heavy.