{"id":10449,"date":"2014-12-13T19:46:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=10449"},"modified":"2014-12-13T20:03:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T01:03:02","slug":"the-splash-brothers-of-different-mothers-the-golden-state-warriors-top-scorers-klay-alexander-thompson-and-wardell-stephen-steph-curry-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=10449","title":{"rendered":"THE SPLASH BROTHERS OF DIFFERENT MOTHERS, THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS TOP SCORERS, Klay Alexander Thompson AND Wardell Stephen &#8220;Steph&#8221; Curry II."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Klay Alexander Thompson is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the <a title=\"Golden State Warriors\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_State_Warriors\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> of the <a title=\"National Basketball Association\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Basketball_Association\">National Basketball Association<\/a> (NBA). He is the son of former NBA player <a title=\"Mychal Thompson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mychal_Thompson\">Mychal Thompson<\/a>. Thompson played <a title=\"College basketball\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/College_basketball\">college basketball<\/a> for three seasons at <a title=\"Washington State Cougars men's basketball\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_State_Cougars_men%27s_basketball\">Washington State University<\/a> before being selected by Golden State with the 11th pick of the <a title=\"2011 NBA draft\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2011_NBA_draft\">2011 NBA draft<\/a>. In 2014, he and teammate <a title=\"Stephen Curry (basketball)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Curry_(basketball)\">Stephen Curry<\/a> set an NBA record with 484 combined <a title=\"Three-point field goal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three-point_field_goal\">three-pointers<\/a> in a season as the pair were given the nickname the &#8220;Splash Brothers&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wardell Stephen &#8220;Steph&#8221; Curry \u00a0is an American professional <a title=\"Basketball\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basketball\">basketball<\/a> player who currently plays for the <a title=\"Golden State Warriors\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_State_Warriors\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> of the <a title=\"National Basketball Association\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Basketball_Association\">National Basketball Association<\/a> (NBA). Listed at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) and 190 lb (86 kg), Curry plays mostly at <a title=\"Point guard\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Point_guard\">point guard<\/a>. He is the son of former NBA player, <a title=\"Dell Curry\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dell_Curry\">Dell Curry<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Curry played <a title=\"College basketball\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/College_basketball\">college basketball<\/a> for <a title=\"Davidson College\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Davidson_College\">Davidson College<\/a>. There, he was twice named <a title=\"Southern Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_Conference\">Southern Conference<\/a> Player of the Year and set the all-time scoring record for both Davidson and the Southern Conference. During his sophomore year, Curry also set the single-season <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"NCAA\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NCAA\">NCAA<\/a> record for three-pointers made.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Curry was selected with the seventh overall pick in the <a title=\"2009 NBA draft\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009_NBA_draft\">2009 NBA draft<\/a> by the Golden State Warriors. \u00a0During the <a title=\"2012\u201313 NBA season\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2012%E2%80%9313_NBA_season\">2012\u201313<\/a> season, he set the NBA record for <a title=\"Three-point field goal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three-point_field_goal\">three-pointers<\/a> made in a regular season with 272. The next season, Curry and teammate <a title=\"Klay Thompson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Klay_Thompson\">Klay Thompson<\/a> set an NBA record for combined threes in a season with 484 as the pair were given the nickname the &#8220;Splash Brothers&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Alexander Thompson is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the son of former NBA player Mychal Thompson. Thompson played college basketball for three seasons at Washington State University before being selected by Golden State with the 11th pick of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[330,11,8,13,14,106,1,7,9,10],"tags":[930,928,931,929],"class_list":["post-10449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball-sports","category-business","category-entertainment","category-health","category-most-commented","category-nba-sports-news","category-news","category-sports","category-us","category-world","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-klay-alexander-thompson","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-wardell-stephen-steph-curry-ii","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}