Stephen Curry's pre-game routine is already the stuff of legend. The Golden State Warriors superstar puts himself through a ringer of eye-popping ball-handling drills and an impossibly-difficult shooting regimen before tipoff of every game, routinely drawing hundreds of excitable fans and sometimes even national television cameras to his own personal show.

Most famous among the many moves Curry makes while warming up? His trademark hoist from the tunnel of Oracle Arena, a shot which he hits with almost shocking regularity, including before the Warriors' game against the Houston Rockets on Saturday.

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Curry has played some of the best basketball of his career this season despite suffering a groin injury that cost him 10 games in November. The two-time MVP is averaging 28.8 points, 5.1 rebounds, 5.3 assists, and 1.2 steals per game in 2018-19, shooting 48.9 percent overall and 45.0 percent from beyond the arc on a career-high 11.6 three-point attempts per game. He's connected on at least 10 three-pointers in four of his last 19 games.

The Warriors have finally put some breathing room between themselves and the rest of the Western Conference, going 17-2 since an instant-classic 135-134 loss to the Rockets back on January 5th. Golden State, 42-16, is now two games ahead of the second-placed Denver Nuggets, and just two games in the loss column back of the league-leading Milwaukee Bucks.