Stephen Curry won his first Olympic Gold medal this summer, leading the team offensively in the final two medal games to ensure Team USA didn’t fall to upset losses to either Serbia or France. Those performances led to wins No. 31 and 32 for Curry as a Team USA player, improving his record to 32-0 for his career, including exhibition matchups.
Out of the 32 games, only nine of the results are in exhibition matchups while the other 23 have occurred either at the Olympics or at the FIBA World Cup.
He made his Team USA debut at the 2010 FIBA World Cup (then known as the FIBA World Basketball Championship). Registering eight wins in a successful campaign where Curry averaged just 10.6 minutes per game. It would have been nine wins, but Curry received a DNP in a win over Brazil which won’t count here, though a fan who also compiled the data counted it to make Curry’s record to 33-0.
He also represented the national team at the 2014 FIBA World Cup, bringing home another Gold medal while playing a crucial role in the team’s 9-0 record at the competition that summer. He averaged over 20 minutes per game and didn’t receive a single DNP.
Curry played 10 games with Team USA this summer, winning every single one of them, though only six counted as part of the Olympics. With Curry unlikely to represent the USA again, he might just retire with the perfect record.
LeBron James suffered a loss at the 2004 Olympics while Kevin Durant lost a group stage game at the 2020 Olympics alongside exhibition matches before that. Curry’s undefeated record stands out when compared with his incredible colleagues.
Kevin Durant Called Stephen Curry’s Olympic Final Performance ‘The Greatest Heat Check Of All Time’
Former Warriors teammate Kevin Durant saw Steph Curry take over during the fourth quarter of the 2024 Gold medal game between France and the USA, as Curry hit four three-pointers in the final quarter to put the game away. Durant referred to Curry’s explosion as the greatest heat check he has ever seen.
“I’ve seen so many from [Stephen Curry] now, but that was. On this stage, in his first Olympics the world watching, especially after doing what he did in the last game [against Serbia] to follow it up again, that’s probably the greatest.”
Curry ended the tournament as Team USA’s leading scorer, averaging 14.8 points. He was averaging under 7.5 points before the semi-finals, so he found his form at the perfect time to ensure Team USA won Gold.
The performance also helped Durant solidify his status as the winningest men’s Olympic basketball player ever by winning his fourth Gold medal while also helping LeBron James seal his first Olympics MVP trophy due to his consistent excellence through all six of USA’s games at the Olympics.
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