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The Splash Brothers are a duo of American basketball players consisting of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson. The two guards play professionally for the Golden State Warriors in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Excellent long-range shooters, they have combined to set various NBA records for three-point field goals by a pair of teammates. The two NBA All-Stars won an NBA championship with the Warriors in 2015. The sons of former NBA players, Curry and Thompson were not highly recruited out of high school. They enjoyed successful college basketball careers before being selected in the first round of the NBA draft by the Warriors. Curry was chosen with the seventh overall pick in 2009, while Thompson was eleventh in 2011. In 2014–15, they became the first teammates in the league to be the starting guards in the same All-Star Game since 1975, and they were the Warriors' first pair of All-Stars since 1993. They also became the first guard combo to be named to the All-NBA Team in the same season since 1979–80. The two helped the Warriors win the 2015 NBA Finals for the team's first title in 40 years. Additionally, they were teammates on the United States national team in 2014, winning the gold medal at the FIBA Basketball World Cup. ==Background== Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were both born into athletic families. Their fathers, Dell Curry and Mychal Thompson, each had productive NBA careers, while mothers Sonya Curry and Julie Thompson were both volleyball players in college. Their brothers, Seth Curry and Mychel Thompson, also became basketball players. Neither Stephen Curry nor Klay Thompson were highly recruited by college basketball programs.〔 Curry did not receive athletic scholarship offers from any major universities, and his parents' alma mater, Virginia Tech, asked him to be a walk-on. He landed at a mid-major basketball program in Davidson College, a small private school in North Carolina.〔 As a sophomore, Curry's scoring and three-point shooting developed a national following as he led the Wildcats within a game of the Final Four in the 2008 NCAA Tournament.〔〔 The following season, he was a consensus first-team All-American and led the nation in scoring with an average of 28.6 points per game. Thompson played at Washington State University, which was not considered a basketball powerhouse.〔 He was only lightly recruited by the other Pacific-10 (now Pacific-12) schools, prompting him to move from California to Washington.〔 Thompson became a two-time, first-team All-Pac-10 player, and led the conference in scoring with 21.6 points per game in 2010–11. He finished his Cougars career holding the school record for most career three-pointers (242). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Splash Brothers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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