The mind-blowing numbers behind Curry's unanimous MVP selection
To no one's surprise, Stephen Curry became the 11th player in NBA history to win back-to-back MVP awards on Tuesday, completing a historic individual season for the 28-year-old.
Here are six of the most mind-blowing numbers from the season:
131
Curry became the first unanimous winner in the 61-year history of the MVP award by taking 130 first-place votes from media members across the United States and Canada, plus the fan vote.
30 in 35
In capturing his first career scoring title with an average of 30.1 points, Curry became the first player in league history to average at least 30 points in less than 35 minutes.
402
Entering the year, no one had ever knocked down 300 3-pointers in a season, with Curry himself owning the record of 286 (set last year), as well as three of the top-five 3-point shooting seasons in history. Then he took the court in 2015-16 and smashed his old record by 116.
22
Curry's Golden State Warriors performed 22 points per 100 possessions better with Curry on the court as opposed to on the bench, according to NBA.com, finishing with a net rating of minus-3.7 in 1,276 Curry-less minutes in 2015-16.
While on/off splits can be skewed by the quality of teammates a player shares the floor with and by the quality of a team's reserves, the fact remains that for the second season in a row, an all-time team - and in this year's case, the greatest regular-season team in history - was outscored without Curry.
50-40-90
By shooting 50.4 percent from the field, 45.4 percent from deep, and a league-leading 90.8 percent from the free-throw line, Curry became the seventh player ever to record a qualified 50-40-90 season. The only surprising element is it was Curry's first such season. It's unlikely to be his last.
31.5
While his bid to post the greatest single-season Player Efficiency Rating fell short down the stretch, Curry's PER of 31.5 goes down as the eighth-best rating of all time, joining Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, and LeBron James as the only players to post 31-plus PER seasons.