Stephen Curry has been a two-time, back-to-back NBA MVP in 2015 and 2016, and an NBA champion twice (2015, 2017). For the past few years, Curry has been one of the league’s best players and the face of the Golden State Warriors. He is the top vote-getter for the Western Conference in the 2018 NBA All-Star Game, showing how popular he is with the fans, the players, and the media.

But things weren’t always this good for Curry. During his first few years in the league, the son of former sharp-shooting guard Dell Curry was just another good player. His injury-riddled third season didn’t help him in becoming a household name. He had an excellent shooting touch much like his father did but that was mostly all he was known for—a better version of his father.

That was until Madison Square Garden happened.

In an excerpt from The New York Times’ NBA newsletter by Marc Stein, Curry said that the game versus the New York Knicks at MSG was his coming out party.

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On February 27, 2013, Curry scored a career-high 54 points, shooting 18-of-28 from the field, 11-of-13 from the three-point line, and 7-of-7 free-throws. The 11 three-pointers he made was just one shy of tying the NBA record for most three-pointers in a game set by Kobe Bryant at the time. He has since broken that record when he made 13 three-pointers versus the New Orleans Pelicans on November 7, 2016.

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That Knicks game propelled Curry to greater heights as he set a new NBA record for three-pointers made in a single season with 272 in 2013. That benchmark has been broken twice over by Curry himself after he made 286 in the 2014-15 season and 402 the next year.

But if you have to look at what may have started all this domination by Chef Curry, look no further than that fateful day in February when a young, up-and-coming guard annihilated the Knicks with one of the best shooting performances ever by any player in the history of the league.