In the first week of January 1976, an album titled "Frampton Comes Alive" was released featuring UK rock musician Peter Frampton. By April of that year it was #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It was the best selling album of the 1976, with Rolling Stone voting it “Album of the Year.” It has gone on to become one of the best selling live albums of all-time.
Anyone living back in 1976 with admiration and appreciation for classic rock/electric guitar, if alive today, will attest to Frampton's musical ingenuity and international appeal. After minor commercial success as a solo artist, Peter Frampton had finally Come Alive!
In the first week of January 2021, an NBA player named Stephen Curry gave another historic basketball performance by scoring 62 points in a win over the Portland Trailblazers. He had 21pts in the first quarter and 30pts by halftime. It's the most points scored in any NBA game so far this season. With 42 seconds remaining in the game he launched an awkward three-point shot and of course, it swished through the net.
In the current basketball era of long range shooting, anyone watching Sunday's game was reminded of just who helped pioneer taking and making incredible three-point shots. Steph has changed the game while broadening its viewership both nationally and internationally.
Unlike Frampton in the music world of January 1976, Curry had already cemented his basketball world legacy before Sunday's 62 point solo act. And yet he continues to add to his legend with extraordinary games like this.
It wasn't that he scored a career high 62 points, but how he scored them that made this performance so billboard crashing. He made shots with defenders in his face, over 7ft defenders, around and through multiple defenders, left handed, long-mid-short range. Just about every way possible a player can score, Curry scored. On Sunday night, January 3, 2021, Steph Curry Came Alive, and was Unstoppable!
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