Steph Curry bests Aaron Gordon in improbable three-point shootout

Gordon continued his hot shooting in the Nuggets opener in San Francisco. He shot 17-for-21 from the field and 6-for-6 from the foul line, adding eight rebounds for good measure. The Warriors seemed not to believe in Gordon's improvement, continually going under screens and allowing him to fire away. Perhaps they don't know Gordon lives in a renovated warehouse with an NBA-sized basketball court that lets him practice jump shots 24 hours a day.

Steph Curry was too much for Denver and Aaron Gordon

While Gordon was on fire for the whole game, Steph Curry took off at the end of the fourth quarter, somehow the best player in the game in a period where Gordon went on a personal 10-0 run with 9:23 remaining. Curry scored 15 points in the final 6:05, hitting two game-tying threes in the last 1:24.

The last one would have been a terrible decision from anyone in the NBA not named Steph Curry. To keep Jokic from getting out to contest the shot, Curry let it fly from 34 feet to answer Gordon's own bomb.

The Nuggets desperately needed Gordon's shooting Thursday, but Curry's shooting range simply warps opposing defenses. Clinging to a one-possession lead late in OT, Jimmy Butler got a wide-open three primarily because Cameron Johnson had to follow Curry out well behind the three-point arc.

Aaron Gordon's new identity as a deadeye shooter is bad news for the Nuggets' opponents, but Steph Curry has been bad news for Warriors opponents for 16 years.