Curry serial pointer kept Team USA’s gold medal hopes

In a dramatic Olympic semifinal, Steph Curry delivered a stellar performance, scoring 36 points to lead Team USA to a comeback victory against Serbia, overcoming a 17-point deficit.

The game, filled with tension and criticism aimed at the team, saw Curry’s explosive start, where he scored 14 of the USA’s first 15 points. Despite facing a fierce Serbian offense, Curry’s leadership shone through in the fourth quarter, where he hit a crucial three-pointer that helped secure the win.

His teammate Kevin Durant praised Curry’s performance as one of the greatest he has ever witnessed, highlighting the importance of unity in sports amidst societal divisions

Curry stayed hot, but the rest of the United States couldn’t get on his level, and the result was a game that ranged from annoying to maddening to desperate.

Team USA fell 17 points behind, and only the fact that several of the world’s greatest basketball players remembered who they were, and played accordingly, allowed the Americans to escape what surely would have been the Most Humiliating Loss In Olympic History. (Another provocative headline, vanished.)

Anthony Edwards, the first of the Americans to speak after the game, projected the confidence that comes when you know you’ve avoided utter devastation. “We was never like, ‘Oh no, it’s over,’” he said, smiling. “We knew we was going to turn it around. We didn’t know when it was going to happen.”

It happened in the fourth quarter, when the U.S. whittled away at a 13-point deficit, finally taking the lead on Curry’s running 3-pointer with 2:24 remaining in the game.