PARIS (France) - Stephen Curry lit his own Olympic flame when he buried a combined 17 3-pointers in the USA's last two games to lead the Americans to the gold medal in 2024 in Paris.
It was, arguably, the greatest shooting performance in international basketball history, especially considering Curry did it in a Semi-Final comeback triumph over Serbia and the title game against hosts France.
Curry is causing a stir again.
His rare Topps Autograph Card has been sold for huge money, a whopping $518,500!
The amount paid for Curry’s Olympic card surpassed the previous Topps Now record of $225,700 spent for a 1/1 Shohei Ohtani 50/50 club card.
Ohtani is the Japanese baseball star of the Los Angeles Dodgers, widely regarded as the best player in the sport.
The card itself shows Curry’s signature “night-night” celebration, after he buried a fadeaway three-pointer against France in the finals with just 35 seconds left— the final touch on a mesmerizing 4-for-4 performance from two-point range that helped keep Wemby and France at bay.
This performance and shot by Steph Curry is one of the iconic moments in the history of Olympic basketball—perhaps even in FIBA basketball as a whole—but the sale of this card, among other evidence, also raises the question: where does this feat truly rank in the history of sport?
Curry played at the Olympics for the first time and made the All-Star Five. He was a star at the 2010 and 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cups, when USA won those titles to lift the Naismith Trophy.
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