Record shows Duke basketball alum as NBA's top marksman

The Duke basketball program's long list of NBA products this decade includes a record-holding shooter.

Numbers often lie. That said, Seth Curry is the truth. As a senior guard for a 2012-13 Duke basketball squad that lacked supreme talent, the 6-foot-2, 185-pound sniper averaged 17.2 points while shooting 43.8 percent from downtown and came up only one win shy of the Final Four.

This season, after inking a four-year, $32 million deal in July to return from the Portland Trail Blazers to the Dallas Mavericks — where during the 2016-17 season he put up his loftiest stats as a pro, averaging 12.8 points across 29.0 minutes per game — Curry has been money for a 19-9 squad with realistic…