Curry: Tunnel shot started as lunch bet

Stephen Curry has made the long-range tunnel shot part of his pregame routine in recent years, but the origin of the act happened by accident.

"It started about three years ago," Curry detailed to reporters Wednesday. "Me and one of our front office guys, Pat Sund - I don't remember exactly. I think it was maybe a shootaround. I can't remember the first time I did it, but I was shooting it and he walked by and put a kind of funny bet on it. Basically about who is going to buy the next meal. So I get two or three shots at it, and if I didn't make it, I lost, and if I made it, I won.

"The usher that stands right there by the tunnel every game, he kind of got wind of it and wanted to give me some good mojo, so he rubbed the ball and gave me a nice underhanded shovel pass, so I can get a rhythm into the shot, and then from then on it became kind of just a pregame thing I did as I walked through the tunnel."

Curry acknowledged he's set a limitation on his number of shot attempts he allows before calling it quits, and admitted he doesn't know exactly what his shooting percentage is from the tunnel.

"I give myself five shots to do it, if I don't make it, I go back into the locker room," he said. "I don't know the study of what my win-loss percentage is based on if I make it or not, but there is a little bit of me that's like, dang, I missed it. Hopefully I make some shots in the game. But I don't think it's been a problem to this point."