Feeling their presence, the rhythm of the shot. I don’t know what it was about that moment. “It was the magnitude of the moment,” Curry said. Then he jacked up a 3 right in front of the Nuggets’ bench. With the defender in the air, Curry stepped to his left, like he was avoiding a puddle, to reposition himself in open space of the left corner. Landry whipped a pass to Curry, who caught it and gave a pump fake to charging Denver forward Wilson Chandler. As if time itself wanted to pause and witness what was about to happen. As if Brewer’s decision created a warp in the basketball universe. Then suddenly, inconspicuously, the game clock froze. In doing so, he left Stephen Curry wide open. Corey Brewer, the Nuggets’ defense-oriented wing, scrambled to cover the open Landry. Jack dribbled around a screen to the right wing and bounced a pass back to Landry at the top of the key. In the third quarter, with a four-point Warriors lead, Jarrett Jack ran a pick-and-pop with Carl Landry. Nonetheless, the timeline of this NBA lore starts here. Or maybe the birth happened before and this was his coming of age.
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