When a guy faces his former team for the first time, there is always a little extra juice that comes with the match. That’s what happened to Philadelphia 76ers goalie Seth Curry on Thursday when he faced the Dallas Mavericks for the first time since trading.
The Mavericks sent Curry to the Sixers in November on draft night in exchange for Josh Richardson. It was the second time Dallas let Curry escape and reminded them on Thursday how valuable he is to a team.
He scored 15 points and knocked down all three triples, in a 111-97 victory over the Mavericks.
“Nothing personal, man,” Curry said, smiling. “I have a lot of respect for many of those guys there. I just think they made a bad business decision, but it happens all the time, you know what I mean? It is what it is.”
In addition to what he brought offensively, he was very active at the defensive end of the floor. The Duke veteran did a great job of harassing Richardson from the beginning and had an impact on that end as well.
“Seth Curry got his hands on it, I told him he should have known the game, that’s how he did it,” laughed coach Doc Rivers. “I only thought about our defensive energy, I look at us, we shot 43%, we didn’t have an extraordinary offensive night and, nevertheless, we increased by 20 most of the game. Dallas is an excellent offensive team and for us it played defense so it was special. ”
Most importantly, the Sixers got another win and that’s all that matters at the end of the day. The team must continue to grow and that was another impressive victory for Philadelphia, no matter who the opponent is.
“Another night to go out, win and play well as a team,” Curry added. “This is the ultimate goal is to get a victory, so the main thing was to see many of my boys all at the end of the floor and catch up with them and then play again.”
The Sixers will take the Cleveland Cavaliers home Saturday.
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