Stephen Curry’s thirties were supposed to be the downslope. Instead, they’ve become the loudest chapter of his scoring career, the one where the résumé stops being about peaks and starts being about permanence.
On Sunday, Curry detonated for 48 points against the Portland Trail Blazers, his latest reminder that Golden State’s offense can still be bent around a single gravity point when he’s cooking.
That outburst also pushed him into a new piece of NBA history: Curry now owns the record for the most 40-point games after turning 30, moving ahead of Michael Jordan. Stat-tracking tallies list Curry at 45 such games, with Jordan at 44.
What makes the milestone hit harder is that it’s not a one-off. It’s the continuation of a run that’s been rewriting “aging curve” logic in real time. Just days earlier, Curry also surged past Jordan in another post-30 scoring marker: the most games with 35+ points after turning 30.: Curry at 94 (now 95) such games, one more than Jordan’s 93, a record he moved into during his 39-point night against Minnesota.
Put together, the numbers tell the same story from two angles. The 35-point list speaks to volume; how often Curry can still bring elite scoring to the building. The 40-point list speaks to ceiling; how frequently he can still warp a game into one-man spectacle. This isn’t nostalgia scoring. It’s current, high-end production, stacking on top of a career that already changed the geometry of the sport.
