Anatomy of a Steph Curry ‘explosion’

Lost amid the whirlwind of his 50-point, 10-assist masterpiece Monday night, Stephen Curry marched around the court chirping “say it,” and a bunch of other stuff that was indistinguishable because he was chewing a mouthguard.

On cue, many fans at Chase Center chanted “MV-P!”

Teammate Damion Lee upped the ante in his comments after the Warriors’ fifth straight double-digit win, a 127-113 victory over Atlanta, by saying Curry was already among the NBA’S best-ever 75 players — and might have risen to be on a list of the top 50, 25 or even 10.

By Tuesday, it was clear that Curry can make a claim for heading toward being chiseled into the Mount Rushmore of basketball.

Stats be told, Curry’s 50-and-10 game made him only the third in the Warriors’ franchise history with those numbers, joining Rick Barry and Wilt Chamberlain. Curry’s 10th career game with at least 50 points tied him with Kareem Abdul-jabbar. Only Michael Jordan had more games of at least 45 points after the age of 32.

Jordan, Abdul-jabbar, Chamberlain. Those are the names, and none of them were getting better at 33.

“It was just a stunning performance by Steph,” Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said. “He rises to the