On the first day of February, the NBA awarded two of its top guards in the league with the Western Conference and Eastern Conference Players of the Week. The winners were star point guard Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors and DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors, according to a tweet from the NBA's official account on Thursday.

Well deserved to them both, indeed. In 12 games played by Curry in the month of January, the two-time NBA Most Valuable Player averaged 29.5 points, 6.7 assists, 5.1 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game in 34.3 minutes of action per contest. Curry shot 54.1 percent from the field, hit 46.3 percent of his three-point attempts and shot a very respectable 87.1 percent from the charity stripe.

Per Warriors beat writer Mark Medina of The Mercury News, Curry opened up the other day about how he was playing as of late.

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“I hear talk about where this season is compared to years past and all that stuff,” Curry said. “It’s nice to hear that you’re playing at a level that — hopefully a little more efficiently — but at least playing at a level I was when I did win the first two. That’s all it is, really.”

As for DeRozan, he put up some pretty beastly numbers of his own during the month of January. In 15 starts, the four-time NBA All-Star averaged 25.3 points, 5.9 assists, 3.7 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game in roughly 34.9 minutes of playing time per contest.

The Warriors (40-11) were 11-3 throughout January as a team and have the NBA's best record, while the Raptors (34-15) cruised to a 10-5 record and are currently 1.5 games behind the Boston Celtics for the top spot in the Eastern Conference playoff race.