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November 8, 2026
The record

Curry set a record for 40-point games after 35. It took 36 minutes.

Stephen Curry scored 41 in a 126-119 overtime win over Orlando on Saturday, his 16th 40-point game since turning 35, the most in NBA history. Steve Kerr sat him to open overtime and then played him a season-high 36 minutes. Golden State has won seven straight.

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Stephen Curry, in Golden State's blue road uniform, rises into a jump shot as Washington's Marcin Gortat contests with both arms raised. Photographed in February 2017, not at Saturday's game.

Steve Kerr has not played Stephen Curry more than 33 minutes in a game this season. On Saturday he ran out of ways to avoid it.

Curry scored 41 in Golden State's 126-119 overtime win over Orlando, and it was the 16th time he has scored 40 or more in a regular-season game since his 35th birthday. That is the most in NBA history. LeBron James has 15 and Michael Jordan 12, Anthony Slater of ESPN reported.

He tied James on October 28 in Minnesota, with 44. He passed him ten days later. The man is 38.

Where the 16 came from#

Curry turned 35 on March 14, 2023. Here is the count by season, off his game logs:

Season40-point games after his 35th birthday
2022-23 (from March 14)1
2023-246
2024-253
2025-264
2026-27 (8 games played)2
Total16

The minutes#

The record is the news. The minutes are what Kerr has to plan around.

Curry played 36 of them, his most this season. His previous high was 33, on November 2 against Phoenix, on the second night of a back-to-back.

Kerr tried. He sat Curry with 7:38 left in regulation and the Warriors up 89-87, and brought him back at 4:34 with the game tied at 96. Then Curry scored 12 points in the last 2:21: a layup, two threes off Draymond Green passes, two free throws, and a running shot in traffic off the glass with 25.2 seconds left that put Golden State up 110-108.

"That was an impossible shot," Kerr said, per Slater.

Jamal Cain tipped in Orlando's third try with two seconds left, and it went to overtime anyway.

So Kerr tried again. Curry started overtime on the bench. Charles Bassey scored the first four points of the extra period, the Warriors led 114-112, and Curry came back in with 3:48 left. He had sat for 72 seconds. He scored five more, including a three-point play with 1:38 left that put Golden State ahead for good.

Slater's count: 17 of the 41 came in the final seven minutes.

"Work ethic," Kerr said of the longevity. "Good genes. He's been blessed with a body that's held up."

The rest of it#

Golden State is 7-3. It started 0-3. Slater reported that the 1950-51 Boston Celtics are the only other team to follow an 0-3 start with a seven-game winning streak right away. The Associated Press noted it is the Warriors' longest streak since seven straight in March 2025.

Yaxel Lendeborg scored 23 with eight rebounds and made a three in overtime. Green had 13 assists, a season high, and three of them went to Curry in the final 2:21. Franz Wagner scored 30 for Orlando, which is 2-7. Wendell Carter Jr. missed two free throws with 1:15 left in overtime that would have tied it.

Curry also passed 5,000 career rebounds on Saturday, and the AP, citing the Elias Sports Bureau, reported he is the seventh player with 26,000 points, 5,000 rebounds and 6,000 assists. He has 26,778 points. Hakeem Olajuwon has 26,946. That is 168 points.

"I appreciate the longevity," Curry said.

New Orleans is at Chase Center on Monday night. As of early Sunday, the Warriors had not said whether Saturday's 36 minutes change Curry's.

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