Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry, despite his legendary career, has long been known for downplaying individual accolades. He has always prioritized team success and collective achievements alongside his teammates. But even he admits there’s one personal milestone he keeps an eye on—cracking the NBA’s all-time top 10 scoring list.
Curry currently ranks 24th on the NBA’s all-time scoring chart with 25,386 points. As he enters his 17th season in the league, the four-time NBA champion is slowly but steadily climbing the ranks, fully aware of what it would take to etch his name among the sport’s elite scorers.
In a recent interview with Complex’s Speedy Mormon, Curry offered a candid look at how he tracks his scoring legacy. “I wouldn’t say I don’t care,” Curry admitted. “I do the math every once in a while. Every time you catch somebody and they do the thing in the arenas like, ‘Oh, congratulations, you passed Jerry West,’ which was a special one for me, that’s when you’re like, oh, how far can I go?”
“So I do the math. If I average 20-something, two and a half seasons, I’m playing 70 games, I do that math all the time just to get in your head how long do you have to play and to what level to catch the top of that list?”
Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors takes a shot against the Los Angeles Lakers
Still, Curry made it clear that chasing records isn’t what motivates him to keep playing. His sights remain firmly set on adding to the Warriors’ championship total and further cementing his legacy as one of the greatest guards of all time.
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“But after I do that,” Curry continued, “I don’t think about it again until the next time it happens. So it’s just a fun way to keep yourself in the moment and give yourself, for a hot second, something to look forward to. But that’s not why I’ll keep going. It’s more that I want to get to a level where we’re competing and playing for championships.”
Curry surpassed Jerry West in April to climb into 24th place, and now finds himself just 819 points shy of Russell Westbrook, who currently holds the 20th spot on the list. Looking even higher, Curry would need to surpass Carmelo Anthony’s 28,289 career points to break into the top 10.
That gap—2,903 points—remains sizeable. But based on his 2024–25 scoring average of 24.5 points per game, Curry could realistically reach the milestone in two full NBA seasons, assuming he plays close to 70 games per year. He’s done the math, and he’s not afraid to talk about it.
