Stephen Curry is not just a shooter. He is not a multiyear anomaly doomed to regress toward some assailable mean. And he most certainly isn't less of an NBA superstar than LeBron James, Kevin Durant or any of his other peers.
Curry is many things—including an all-time great.
This isn't entirely clear to everyone for some reason. In a matter of months, Curry has crossed the line separating his rise through the NBA's MVP ranks from the debate-fraught pit that almost solely aims to discount the moral of his fairy tale.
To be sure, Curry's accolades remain a dream. He is forever on viral-Vine notice, and Basketball-Reference.com's MVP probability tracker gives him a 76.3 percent chance of retaining ownership of the Maurice Podoloff Trophy.
Plenty of fans and pundits revel in his absurd shot selection and on-court execution, many of whom will never experience Curry fatigue or bristle at the sound or sight of profoundly positive analysis.
But the quest to properly contextualize what he is doing has journeyed outside the underdog-turned-superstud bubble and, for ...
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It’s OK to Admit That Stephen Curry Is One of NBA’s All-Time Greats
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