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Okay, hold on. Let me check something real quick.
Peruses Warriors schedule.
Checks it again.
Wait, the Warriors are off today?! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE. It’s February 27th, 2026, and the Golden State Warriors are sitting at home in their sweats watching other teams play basketball? Doesn’t the NBA know this is Stephen Curry Day?! I need somebody in the league office to explain this to me, because this is either the greatest scheduling oversight in NBA history or a deliberately protecting the other 29 teams from a fate worth than death: a disrespectfully epic Curry performance.
That’s gotta be it. The league saw what was happening for damn near two decades and said enough is enough. Give the competition a chance by sending Steph a gift basket and a strongly worded memo: not today. I mean he’s injured anyway, but there’s a major chance his knee miraculously heals for 24 hours on this magical day. Because when I say 2/27, is the day Stephen Curry transforms into something the basketball rulebook was never designed to handle.
This is his date. His portal. His zone of complete and total basketball domination. Across ten games on that date in his career, he’s averaging 32.6 points per game, shooting 50.2 percent from the field, with 5.7 three-pointers made, 5.3 assists, and 5.4 rebounds. For context, a 32.6 point average would have led the NBA in scoring plenty of years. Curry is doing that as a recurring calendar event. The consistency is almost more disorienting than the individual performances themselves. You can prepare a defense for a hot game. You cannot prepare a defense for a law of nature.
Don’t believe me? Let’s look at the all-time scoring records for February 27th games. The top three performances in NBA history on this specific date are all Warriors. Number one is Wilt Chamberlain dropping 65 points back in 1962 for Philadelphia. Number two is Stephen Curry with 56 points against Orlando in 2025. Number three is Stephen Curry again with 54 points at Madison Square Garden in 2013. Curry also owns the eighth spot on that list with his 46-point explosion against Oklahoma City in 2016.
That OKC game, by the way, is the one the NBA just officially called the greatest regular season game in NBA history. A documentary called “38 Feet Deep” will premiere on the Warriors’ official YouTube channel at noon Pacific time today, celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the shot that broke OKC’s soul on their own floor. Oh, how I love that.
I first covered this phenomenon last year for Dub Nation HQ after Curry dropped 56 on Orlando and it still doesn’t feel real writing it again twelve months later. Three times on this date, Curry has crossed the 46-point threshold. We’re talking three different eras of his career with different versions of the team around him.
So yeah. The NBA looked at the schedule, looked at the date, thought about what has happened every single time this franchise suits up on February 27th, and decided the rest of the league deserved a free pass today. I get it. Sometimes you have to protect the people.