A last word on Vegas

Sporting News Today: Curry shot just 32.5 percent in summer league -- which wrapped up Sunday -- though scouts were impressed by his shooting form and leadership.

Oklahoma City?

Seems like every morning I get a Stephen update in my inbox from Sporting News Today. Here’s this morning’s: The latest mock draft has him going No. 3 to the Thunder. “The consensus seems to be that the Thunder will take SG James Harden. But the Thunder almost never do what the consensus indicates. Curry would give OKC a sweet-shooting combo guard to pair with PG Russell Westbrook.” Stephen on Dan Patrick.

Stephen a Knick?

False, says Sporting News Today: Forget the notion of a New York promise -- chances are, unless the Knicks trade up, Curry will be gone by the time the Knicks pick. Curry could go fifth if the Wizards (as expected) trade their pick, or sixth to Minnesota.

New York New York

Everybody’s linking you to the Knicks. What’s the lure? That was one of the questions in an interview in the Sporting News Today e-mail in my inbox this morning. Blah, blah, blah.

Stephen always has answered this question by talking about the system and the Garden and the history.

I would also throw in another very important consideration. Stephen probably wouldn’t talk about it in public, because it might be a little too honest, but he’s been around the league and he’s no dumb-dumb: New York, obviously, is the biggest big city we’ve got, and it’s the media capital and it’s the advertising capital and it’s the attention capital, and Wardell Stephen Curry II, 21 years old, is a good-looking about-to-be lottery pick who mostly speaks in complete sentences. He has unprecedented crossover appeal in this draft and would in any draft -- read into that whatever you want to read into that -- and he’s going to make a ton of money off the court wherever he goes but he’ll make even more in Manhattan.

The Knicks?

Yes please.

Tim Grover

Stephen: “I heard he’s the best. He gets the most out of your potential. He has a very focused and direct strategy for making you a better player. I’m going up and spending two weeks up there before the draft and hopefully we'll finish up afterwards, just getting me conditioned and stronger and ready for what I’m about to do in the next year.” Here’s the video.

Math

DeCourcy: Davidson graduate Michael Kruse, author of the new book, Taking The Shot: The Davidson Basketball Moment, has done some calculating and determined Wildcats All-American Stephen Curry could become the NCAA’s all-time scoring champ if he completes four seasons. After Davidson’s game against Purdue, Curry has 1,961 career points and at least 22 games left this year (including a minimum of one Southern Conference tournament game and one postseason game). Kruse points out that if Curry could play 60 more games for the Wildcats and average 30 points, he would blow past Pete Maravich’s career total of 3,667 points. Following a tough day Saturday against the Boilermakers, Curry is averaging exactly 30 -- and that’s including that gimmicky zero-point night against Loyola (Md.).