As if Stephen Curry didn't give hoop fans enough highlights to last a lifetime this season alone, he's got more ammunition for the playoffs.
The Golden State Warriors' All-Star point guard and leading MVP candidate delivered an absolutely mesmerizing pass to Andrew Bogut late in the fourth quarter en route to the Warriors winning Game 2 over the New Orleans Pelicans, 97-87, on Monday night. The Warriors now lead that first-round series, 2-0.
It wasn't just the pass ... it was the sequence that led up to the assist that was enough to give you the goosebumps. If you're reading this, chances are you're a basketball fan, so make that the little bumps on a Spalding official basketball.
Anyway, Curry lost his handle while attempting to drive through the lane, only to regain it and jump up against two defenders, somehow finding a way to drop off this dime, mid-air in traffic, to Bogut for an uncontested two-handed dunk. Truly amazing.
While the scintillating play was easily the playoff highlight of Monday night, there were other eye-catching feats displayed in the two-game schedule. Here's a look at the others:
Curry's Splash Brothers' brethren, Klay Thompson, caught Pelicans' superstar Anthony Davis sleeping on this play. Thompson made him pay, too, with this three-pointer. Never take your eyes off a shooter ... especially one as lethal as Thompson. The All-Star shooting guard had 26 points, with Curry chipping in with 22 more, combining to negate Davis's 26-point, 10-rebound effort.
In the earlier game Monday night, the Bulls' Jimmy Butler came to play and no member of the Milwaukee Bucks could hang with him. Butler, a first-time All-Star this season, poured in 31 points and grabbed nine boards in the Chicago Bulls' 91-82 Game 2 victory. The Bulls, too, lead their first-round series, 2-0. This thunderous dunk capped a solid night for Butler. No wonder they call him Jimmy Buckets.
What do you know, the Bulls-Bucks game even got a little testy, as all playoff games should. While this pales in comparison with the Detroit Pistons' Bad Boys of the late 1980s, early 1990s, or even the 1990s' New York Knicks, Miami Heat or Indiana Pacers squads, in this day and age, we'll take this kind of nastiness. Basically, Bucks forward John Henson ran right over Aaron Brooks, sparking the Bulls guard to get right in Henson's face. Butler and O.J. Mayo had some words as well. The aftermath saw Henson, Mayo, Butler and Joakim Noah each being whistled for a technical foul.
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