Stephen Curry has lit everybody up this NBA season. Everyone except for the Los Angeles Lakers that is.

The Golden State Warriors star leads the NBA in scoring with his insane 32.0 points per game on 48.2% shooting from the field and a sterling 42.1% from three-point land on 12.7 attempts. But for some reason, his usual numbers don't apply when it's against the Lakers.

The Warriors and Lakers have faced off three times this season. In those three contests, Curry was reduced to just 23 points per game and held to an ugly 42.3% from the field.

They even kept Curry below their opponent’s average of 35.1% from downtown, as Steph shot a measly 9/26 from deep for a pedestrian 34.6% clip. They rendered Stephen Curry an average shooter throughout all three games, blowing the Warriors out by 26 and 31 during their last two face-offs.

But it hasn't just been this year that the Lakers have kept him mortal.

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The struggles vs. the Lakers have stretched for approximately 18 games, which reaches all the way back to the 2014-15 season. That was in fact the start of his two-year MVP run, with his 2015-16 season being arguably the greatest point guard season in NBA history.

In his last 10 games against Los Angeles prior to the Lakers vs. Warriors play-in tournament, Stephen Curry had shot a combined 61 makes on 164 shot attempts. That’s comes out to a putrid 37.1% from the field. Stephen Curry has shot like one of the least efficient scorers in the NBA against the Lakers over the past few seasons.

The last time Stephen Curry scored over thirty against the Lakers was way back in November 23, 2016. In that game, the Warriors absolutely demolished Los Angeles, scoring a whopping 149 points on them and winning by a disgusting 43 points. But even then, Curry only had a relatively modest 31 points. The starting lineup of the Lakers that game was Brandon Ingram, Luol Deng, Nick Young, Jose Calderon, and the great Timofey Mozgov.

Curry did have 37 points in the play-in tournament matchup against the Lakers, which could mean that he's found a way to break the curse. But given that they lost, he'll probably need another big-time performance against LeBron James and his men before we can take off the Purple & Gold jinx.