Portland Trail Blazers guard Seth Curry and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry continue their brotherly competition Thursday night in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals in Oakland. The Curry brothers have played 10 games against one another, including Tuesday’s Game 1, when the Warriors prevailed 116-94. Stephen is 8-2 in games against Seth. Though Steph has been in the NBA since 2009 and Seth in 2013, they didn’t play an NBA game on the same court until the 2015-16 season. Here is a look at statistics in games Seth and Stephen Curry have played: Overall NBA careers MIN FG% 3PT% FT% REB AST PTS Seth Curry, games vs. Steph 17.1 .347 .333 .813 1.6 2.8 7.5 NBA career averages 21.5 .467 .439 .845 1.9 1.7 9.3 Steph Curry, games vs. Seth 33.5 .482 .454 .863 5.9 6.4 25.7 NBA career averages 34.4 .477 .436 .905 4.5 6.6 23.5 In 2015-16, Seth played for Sacramento, and Steph for Golden State. They played three head-to-head games, all won by Golden State: 120-101 on Nov. 28, 122-103 on Dec. 28 and 128-116 on Jan. 9. 2015-16 MIN FG 3 PT FT REB AST PTS Nov. 28 Seth 9 3-4 3-3 0-0 0 0 9 Steph 30 4-7 3-6 8-8 4 6 19 Dec. 28 Seth 20 1-6 0-3 5-5 2 3 7 Steph 30 7-16 6-13 3-4 14 10 23 Jan. 9 Seth 8 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Steph 38 12-21 8-14 6-7 6 11 38 In 2016-17, Seth played for Dallas, and Steph for Golden State. The Warriors won the three head-to-head games, 116-95 on Nov. 9, 108-99 on Dec. 30 and 112-87 on March 21. 2016-17 MIN FG 3 PT FT REB AST PTS Nov. 9 Seth 35 4-17 2-9 0-1 1 9 10 Steph 31 8-12 4-8 4-4 3 6 24 Dec. 30 Seth 26 4-8 1-3 2-2 1 5 11 Steph 30 5-12 3-6 1-1 4 5 14 March 21 Seth 27 4-12 1-4 1-1 3 4 10 Steph 30 7-14 3-9 0-0 5 9 17 in 2018-19, Seth Curry played for Portland, Steph for Golden State. There have been four head-to-head games to date. Portland won 110-109 on Dec. 27, and 129-107 on Feb. 13. Golden State won 115-105 on Dec. 29, and 116-94 on May 14.<doc-sep>Stephen Curry boasts a $200million contract with the Golden State Warriors, has been a mainstay with the franchise since being drafted in 2010 and knows exactly how to win an NBA championship. But there is one thing he has never come up against when trying to win the NBA Finals: his brother Seth. Steph and Seth Curry, considered to be among the finest three-point shooters in the NBA, will make history when they go head-to-head in the Western Conference finals as Golden State take on the Portland Trail Blazers. Stephen Curry (left) will make history by facing brother Seth (right) when Golden State Warriors take on the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA Western Conference finals on Tuesday The pair are particularly close and it will prove both a thrilling and exhausting occasion for the family. Having both sons in a conference final is a dilemma most parents in the US would love to have. Dell Curry and his wife, Sonya, decided wearing a half-and-half jersey with the Warriors and Blazers would be 'too easy' and so settled on a different solution ahead of the imminent best-of-seven series. Instead, they will flip a coin before each game in the series to determine which team (and son) each of them will represent on that particular night. 'I just know watching Seth play I get nervous watching him like on TV and stuff,' Steph said after Warriors' practice on Monday. 'For them, it's family and parents who supported us all the way through the ranks.' The parents' routine will play out as follows: If mum Sonya flips heads, she will wear Blazers gear to support 28-year-old Seth, while Dell wears Stephen's Warriors colors. If the coin lands on tails, she will dress in Warriors gear while Dell dons Blazers attire. The next game Dell gets to flip the coin, and so on until the series is ultimately decided. So, many fans were keen to know, who gets to flip the coin for Game 1 at Golden State? 'Well, we have to flip to see who flips first,' Dell joked after Seth's Trail Blazers sealed a thrilling Game 7 away to Denver Nuggets in the semi-finals. 'There's going to be a lot of coin flipping going on.' The brothers met earlier in the season and decided to seal the moment with a jersey swap Steph Curry has won multiple championships and is considered one of the finest shooters ever As well as the continuous coin flipping, the Curry family face an extensive travel schedule to be in attendance for every game. Dell and Sonya plan to attend every game, sitting with Stephen's wife Ayesha at Warriors home games and with Seth's fiancée Callie Rogers when the Blazers host. 'They're like the Royal Family of the NBA,' Warriors coach Steve Kerr said on Monday. 'It's incredible. There they are, Steph and Seth, both having all this success. As parents, they must be having the time of their lives. Actually I know they are because I've talked to them about it. What a beautiful scene. I'm sure it will be conflicting for them this next couple of weeks but what a great story.' Dell, who played 16 seasons in the NBA and is currently a TV analyst for the Charlotte Hornets, admitted that the entire situation is just a bit unnerving for him. 'I normally don't get nervous for games when either one of them play,' he said. 'But I got a little nervous knowing how they're going to play against each other.' As hard as this will be on the parents, Dell knows it will be even more difficult for his two sons. 'It's going to be tough to put everything aside and battle each other because as siblings they want each other to do well,' Dell said. 'They watch each other's games and cheer for each other.' The siblings' dad Dell Curry, who played in NBA, revealed a coin flip will decide who he backs He and wife Sonya (pictured, centre) will flip a coin to decide which parent supports which son Earlier this year, the Curry brothers competed against each other in the three-point shootout at the All-Star Game in their hometown of Charlotte, with 31-year-old Steph getting the best of his younger brother. Stood in the locker room, moments after a thrilling win against the Nuggets, Seth could not stop smiling at the prospect of facing his brother in the playoffs. 'So many years I've watched Steph play in the Western Conference final, the NBA Finals, being in the crowd,' he said. 'It's going to be fun to be out there on the court, competing, to get to that final. It's a dream come true for us, but our families are going to have a lot of fun as well.' Steph Curry has been to the NBA Finals four times, winning three championships with the Warriors. This is his brother's first playoff run and the family are under no illusions how big a moment this would be for the younger brother. 'It would be great for Seth to get a (championship) ring, but we can't root for one son over the other,' 54-year-old Dell Curry said. 'We're just going to let it play out and have fun watching them both play.' For Seth Curry, the journey has been far from smooth when it is contrasted to the rise and rise of his older brother. Plying his trade in the NBA's development league, the 28-year-old continued to be released and after a couple of seasons, had barely played one full match in the NBA. Success continued to arrive for Steph but the patience of his brother paid off and that is not lost on the Warriors star. Seth Curry has had a tough journey to this moment but is a real danger as a three-point shooter 'He's had a very interesting journey to get to where he's at, dealing with some significant injuries and surgeries as well where he missed two entire years basically coming out of college and this past year,' Steph said.<doc-sep>Steve Dykes/Associated Press House Curry is divided. Ahead of Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals Tuesday night between Stephen Curry's Golden State Warriors and Seth Curry's Portland Trail Blazers, a coin toss was held to declare which parent would root for which son's team. The family is so competitive that mom Sonya even celebrated beating dad Dell in the pre-toss game of rock, paper, scissors. Sydel Curry, Steph and Seth's sister, then did the honors. Steph and Seth are the first set of brothers to compete against each other in a conference finals series in NBA history. While the Warriors are seeking a three-peat, Seth will take no mercy on his older brother and try to help Portland to its first NBA Finals appearance since 1991-92. Regardless of the outcome, the Curry family stays winning. The Blazers and Warriors will tip off at Oracle Arena at 9 p.m. EST. The game will be televised on ESPN.<doc-sep>With the Trail Blazers and the Warriors playing in the Western Conference Finals, there's an interesting sub-matchup at play as well: Stephen Curry and Seth Curry will be playing on opposite sides in the conference finals, which presents a fun dilemma for Dell and Sonya Curry: Who to root for? If you absolutely have to choose, the answer is probably easy: It would be cool to see two of your kids get rings. But it's not that simple when they're facing off. "It's going to be fun," Dell Curry said, per ESPN. "It's going to lessen our travel schedule. That's the biggest thing. We've been traveling quite a bit. It's been fun, it's been tiresome, but it's about ready to get real now. "It's a first experience for all of us," he continued. "Biggest thing is we are trying to decide who represents who." The parents will apparently be splitting which colors they wear on a nightly basis, but Sonya has a way to make sure it's done fairly. "We are flipping a coin every game," she told ESPN. And even though it'll be tough to watch initially, there is a bright side. "One of them might go home," Sonya said. "But we're going to the championship!" That's a good way to look at it, but in the meantime, it's going to be a tough series for the Currys. The Warriors are looking for their third straight title and their fifth straight Finals appearance, while the Blazers try to play spoiler.<doc-sep>
In 2009, two days before Steph Curry played the first professional game of his career—long before the two MVPs, three championships, five All-NBA honors, and an impending 2019 Western Conference finals matchup against the Blazers and his little brother, Seth Curry—he forewarned the consequence of sharing the court with family. #whenwewereyoung me and @sdotcurry used to hoop outside all night without keeping score. The game didn't end til some got hurt or quit — Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) October 27, 2009 The game didn’t end til some got hurt or quit. To an only child, this may come across as fatuous or dangerous or even barbaric; between siblings, it’s surviving boredom and each other. There’s a nostalgia we all carry for the ratty hoop in the driveway, for H.O.R.S.E. games we won and best-of-11s we didn’t. But as one of five kids, I can promise you this: The Currys’ one-vs.-one wasn’t cute at the time. It was taunting and pushing and calling for fouls that didn’t exist, a familial love language that never really goes away, just softens with age. The rules are different for the Currys now, the first set of NBA brothers to ever face one another in a conference finals. Pros keep score. The game ends at the buzzer, not with a scraped knee. The sibling rivalry, however, stays. On Sunday, after the Blazers beat the Nuggets to advance, Steph shot Seth a nonchalant text: “I’ll see you Tuesday.” The Curry Bowl—or the Bowl of Curry—isn’t level. Vegas opened the series line at minus-450 in favor of the Warriors (an implied win probability north of 80 percent). The figure has almost nothing to do with how Steph’s and Seth’s individual talents match up against each other. One is a starter and the other a reserve. They’ll share the court only sporadically. Golden State as a whole is superior, and holds home-court advantage in one of the NBA’s loudest arenas. Steph and Seth aren’t Venus and Serena Williams. Not Peyton and Eli Manning, nor Phil and Tony Esposito. Think Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller. Steph is a superstar, already considered one of the best to ever shoot the ball; Seth, his brother by blood, isn’t even a Splash Brother. Steph has starred in four conference finals and advanced each time; Seth’s only postseason trips before this year were ones he spent traveling with Dell and Sonya to watch his brother. Their head-to-head matchups are as lopsided as their respective trophy cases. Because this is Seth’s first playoff run in his six-year career, he’s only ever squared up against during Steph the regular season. They’ve played each other nine times, with Steph’s teams leading Seth’s 7-2. Comparing starter stats with those off the bench is unfair, but it’s worth noting in those games (below) that Steph exceeds his career average in scoring, while his brother’s dips: Steph: 24.6 points in 33.2 minutes, 47.6 FG%, 43.0 3P%, 85.4 FT%, 5.9 rebounds, 7.1 assists, 1.6 steals Seth: 8.0 points in 19.9 minutes, 36.9 FG%, 34.4 3P%, 81.3 FT%, 1.6 rebounds, 2.9 assists, 1.0 steals How much better Golden State was in every matchup is also important context: Seth faced the Warriors three times while he was with the 2015-16 Kings (a 33-49 team) and three times with the 2016-17 Mavericks (also 33-49) before playing them three times in 2018-19 with the Blazers (53-29). Portland went 2-1 against Golden State this season, accounting for both of Seth’s wins over his big brother. Though Seth didn’t break 20 minutes in any of the three games (and scored just three points in the second, which was the one the Blazers lost), he did defend Steph for 32 total possessions. It’s a small sample size—just one-third of the possessions Damian Lillard, Portland’s primary defender for Steph this regular season, was responsible for—but it’s also the second-most times that any Blazer took on the Steph assignment. Seth made a case to be the favorite child in those possessions: Steph scored a total 16 points on 14 shots, shooting 35.7 percent from the field and 30 percent on 10 attempts behind the arc. Steph will always have high-volume opportunities against a bench unit because that typically makes for an easier matchup, yet against his little brother, it took far more shots than typical to get his points.