Steph Curry lauds brother Seth's 'crazy confidence and swagger'

As the younger brother of an NBA champion, reigning two-time MVP, multiple record-holder, and consensus greatest shooter of all time, Seth Curry has resided in a long shadow for a long time.

This season, though, after bouncing around on 10-day contracts and minimum deals with four different teams the previous three years, Seth has stepped into his own patch of sunlight with the Dallas Mavericks. Having finally secured a multi-year deal in the offseason, he's rewarded the Mavericks with a breakout campaign, and is actually out-shooting Steph from the field (48 percent to 46.1 percent) and 3-point range (43.3 to 39.3).

Seth has been particularly good since the calendar flipped to 2017, averaging 15.2 points while shooting 51.1 percent from the field and 47.5 percent from deep, as the once-moribund Mavs have gone 18-14 to turn their season around. In 10 games since the All-Star break, he's averaged 18.4 points, 3.2 rebounds, and three assists, with a ridiculous .527/.500/.952 shooting line. Big brother has taken notice.

"It's been amazing," Steph told reporters Tuesday. "He's taken advantage of the opportunity to be in that starting lineup and get significant minutes, and playing well. He's got crazy confidence and swagger about him. You love to see that.

"He obviously deserves it - to be in this league - and he's been proving that every day he's showed up, he does."

Steph said Seth hasn't been rubbing the newfound success in his face, but that their father Dell - once a sharpshooter in his own right and now a Charlotte Hornets broadcaster - regularly does.

"My pops was doing a game for the Hornets, he was doing some stat research, or whatever, that showed the 3-point percentages. And there was two Currys on the list, both S. Curry. And Seth was up here, and I was down here. He made sure to take a picture of that and send it to both of us."