Stephen Curry can get 30 points in his sleep. The Golden State Warriors icon is arguably the greatest offensive weapon in NBA history, bar none.

But for some reason, Steph Curry has routinely struggled against the Los Angeles Lakers for almost a decade now. The man appropriately numbered 30 on his Warriors jersey has such a brutal time eclipsing that figure whenever he's up against against the Purple & Gold.

That figure is staggering if you consider how efficient Curry is on a regular basis. He's a career 47.7% shooter from the field while averaging a crazy 43.3% from downtown throughout his 12-year NBA career. His present season as the NBA's leading scorer is no different.

Despite facing a crazy amount of defensive attention with Klay Thompson injured and Kevin Durant now playing on the other side of the country, the Warriors star is basically producing with career-average efficiency at 48.2% from the field and 42.1% from deep. But apparently, throw all these numbers out the window against the Lakers.

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 LA over the past few seasons. The sample size isn't exactly tiny either.

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.

That was almost five years ago. Just peeping at the starting five reminds you of how long ago that was. A rookie-year Brandon Ingram played the most minutes for LA, but the rest of the starters were just hilariously nostalgic.

You had Luol Deng who went 3-for-9 from the field for eight points. Their starting point guard was Jose Calderon, who seems like he's been gone for a while but actually retired in 2019 after player three more years for random teams. Their shooting guard was Nick Young, who has full transformed from ball-player to Twitter personality in the consciousness of NBA fans. And of course, the legend himself Timofey Mozgov of 4-years, $64 million contract infamy.

Then before that game, Curry failed to score over 30 in seven more games prior. That's absolutely nuts considering how horrid the Lakers were for those years with an aging Kobe Bryant. Plus the fact that the Warriors icon won back-to-back MVP awards in those years as well.

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Stephen Curry was finally able to break the 30-point seal against the Lakers during their play-in tournament matchup, but it clearly didn't come easy. LA punished Steph every chance they got, throwing double-teams at him constantly. It didn't work all the time, but the Lakers did force Curry into several mistakes as he finished the contest with a game-high six turnovers.

In my preview piece on this play-in matchup, I made the case for why the Lakers would win the contest. The biggest being that they've kept Curry in check this season, even when LeBron James or Anthony Davis were missing from the lineup. Here's how the Lakers have done against the NBA's leading scorer this season.

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.

Steph Curry's struggles check out at least for this season, as the Lakers are the number-one ranked defense in the NBA. But the career-long slumps have been a puzzling feature of Stephen Curry's otherwise immaculate career.

Curry could very well have broken the curse in their play-in contest. The Warriors star dropped 37 points on an efficient 12-for-23 shooting from the field. Had LeBron James missed his Curry-esque three-pointer, the Dubs could have very well completed the upset of the defending champs.

But until we see Stephen Curry face off against the Lakers again the next time, they can still claim to have the two-time MVP's number for the time being.