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Steph Curry HOOPIN vs TOP High School Players & Starts DUNKING! 7 Footer SAUCES UP Steph!

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Stephen Curry showed up to his own camp and started cooking teenagers.

The two-time MVP wasn’t just running drills at his annual Under Armour SC30 Select Camp in early August 2019 — he was hooping. Footage from the camp shows Curry stepping into scrimmages against 30 of the top high school prospects in the country, pulling up from deep, splitting defenders off the dribble, and at one point going shot-for-shot with a 7-footer in a one-on-one that had the gym buzzing. It’s the kind of session that reminds everyone why campers fly across the country just to share a court with him for a week.

• Curry ran full scrimmages and one-on-one matchups against 30 elite high school recruits at his SC30 Select Camp in early August 2019.
• A featured sequence pits Curry directly against a 7-foot prospect, with Curry answering the size mismatch with dunks and ball-handling that left the camper looking overmatched.
• The camp is a recurring summer fixture that Curry uses to mentor top-tier recruits alongside intensive training and drills.

Inside the SC30 Select Camp

Curry’s SC30 Select Camp has become one of the more coveted invites on the July-August basketball calendar, bringing together 30 of the nation’s top high school players for a week built around skill work, mentorship and, evidently, live competition against the host himself. Rather than standing on the sideline running clinics, Curry laced up and got into the mix — jump-shooting, attacking off the dribble and mixing it up in scrimmages with kids who, in some cases, will be college signees within a year or two, the type of prospects who could eventually be suiting up in games like the CFP National Championship stage of their sport, if football’s their path, or a high-major hardwood equivalent if it’s basketball.

What stands out in the footage isn’t just that Curry played — it’s how he played. The ball-handling and shot preparation that define his NBA game were on full display against defenders decades younger and, in some matchups, half a foot taller. Curry wasn’t coasting through a glorified layup line; he was competing, which is exactly the tone campers say sets his event apart from a standard summer camp appearance.

The 7-Footer Sequence

The clip’s signature moment comes when Curry squares up against one of the camp’s tallest prospects, a 7-footer with an obvious length advantage, in a one-on-one possession. Instead of settling for jumpers over the outstretched arms, Curry worked the dribble, created enough separation with a series of moves, and finished with flair — the kind of sequence that had teammates and coaches on the sideline reacting like it was a live NBA possession rather than a camp drill.

7 Footer SAUCES UP Steph — and Steph sauces right back.

That line, pulled straight from the way the moment played out on video, captures why the clip spread the way it did among hoops fans. It’s not every day a reigning MVP gets tested by a teenager with a seven-foot frame and answers with moves that look ripped from a Warriors highlight reel.

Dunking, Drills and Mentorship

Beyond the one-on-one, the footage also shows Curry throwing down dunks during the run — not usually the first thing associated with his game, which has been built around shooting range and handles rather than above-the-rim highlights. The camp schedule itself is notoriously demanding, with campers grinding through the kind of extended, multi-session training days that echo the sort of all-in fitness pushes seen in marathon workout challenges elsewhere in the content world — minus the 24-hour clock, but with the same emphasis on pushing through fatigue.

Curry has run this camp as a recurring summer fixture, using it as a direct pipeline for passing along the habits — shot prep, footwork, decision-making in ball-screen actions — that built his own game. The high schoolers get direct reps against an active NBA MVP; Curry gets a week of live, competitive basketball outside of a formal season.

The camp wrapped with Curry having logged real minutes against real competition, not just posed for photos and signed autographs. For a 30-man class of top recruits heading into their next high school season and eventually college commitments, sharing a run with Curry — and watching him answer a 7-footer’s challenge with a dunk of his own — is the kind of story that follows them all the way to their next signing day.