Atlanta Hawks: Can Trae Young Break Curry’s 13 Made Threes Record?

In a recent piece on The Undefeated, Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks weighed in on his meteoric rise as well as a potential record that he could break one day.

With the regular season getting closer and closer, now is the time of the season when much of the NBA world is quiet – including on the Atlanta Hawks front.

Pretty much all of the transactions have been completed, and now all 30 NBA franchises and their various fanbases are looking ahead to next season and beyond.

Many of the players, when they’re not uploading videos in which they look like world-beaters (Andrew Bynum, anybody?), are also honing their craft and taking stock of their situation.

One such player is Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks, who was selected #5 overall by the team as the point guard of the future. While he certainly has incredible offensive upside, it seems unlikely that he’ll be ready to come in and immediately dominate at the highest levels of basketball in the world.

That doesn’t stop Ice Trae from brimming with a youthful confidence and exuberance that can’t help but be contagious to any Hawks fan that hears it.

In a recent profile on The Undefeated, Trae Young outlines his experience as the only rookie chosen to serve as a Mocap model for 2K Gaming’s NBA 2K19.

During the interview, Young gets into his excitement at being drafted by Atlanta as well as some of his goals for next season. The question is raised about the similarities in his game to Stephen Curry, which Young brushes aside:

“He’s Steph Curry, and he’s Steph Curry for a reason,” Young said in the interview. “I’m Trae Young, and I’m not gonna pride myself in being him. … Obviously, I wanna achieve the things that he’s achieved, but that doesn’t make me wanna be him. I wanna be my own person.”

Later on in the piece, Young is asked whether or not he can break Curry’s single-game three-pointers made record, which stands at 13 triples hit in a single game (against the Pelicans in November 2016). Young put his goal bluntly:

“I would like to break it,” Young said confidently in the piece. “I definitely feel like I’m capable of breaking it. But that’s a lot of 3s in a game. I ain’t gonna lie.”

Though Trae Young’s seemingly boundless confidence is matched only by limitless range from distance on the court, only time will tell whether Young lives up to the hype in an Atlanta Hawks uniform.

Either way, next season can’t get here soon enough.