NBA Players Explain Why Steph Curry is The GOAT Point Guard

I have to read you a text message I received this morning. Good morning sir, although the best of anything is always a debate. I beg to differ on what you said about the greatest

point

guard

of all time. Magic Johnson is easily the best

point

guard

of all time. Steph Curry is very close, but not in the face of magic, you have to define the point God to really have a serious debate. Steph Curry is by far the greatest shooter of all time. Yes, his movement has created many shots for his teammates. He's a career 43 percent shooter, but Magic Johnson made it up.

The triple double isn't really made up, but it makes it more noticeable in terms of impact on the game, it's a point guard stat, to be honest, the magic was the best we could do, but I don't want to take up too much of their time. I know you get the point with the way magic has five NBA championships. Wow, that quote this morning at 5:45 is from Mr. Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Things took an unexpected turn that we NBA fans have been waiting for day and night for the last two decades. Michael Jordan to give his raw, unfiltered opinions on the NBA's drinking debate, but instead, Michael Jordan turns around and backs Magic Johnson in the growing debate led by passionate NBA fans over who he is truly the best point guard of all time in the NBA.

Magic Johnson himself has not done so. He has yet to go on record in this debate or say publicly that he is the best player at his position, but recently the other man involved in this hot debate, Steph Curry, gave us his opinion and his response might have been a surprise to some. best point guard of all time yes yes that's me on Magic that's because of the conversation it's not surprising that Steph thinks he's the best point guard of all time but the somewhat shocking part is that she actually said it out loud now I know it was on the spot and a direct question was asked like what do you want the man to say?

No, it's just me, that's all we know,

players

today have not hesitated to share their opinion with themselves in the media or simply publicly, but this conversation is one that is causing even other NBA

players

join the discussion, but first let's take a step back and think about something that I think even needs a little more energy than the current debate between Steph Curry and Magic Johnson because The best question might not be whether Steph is better than magic , but if Steph Curry belongs on basketball's Mount Rushmore, considering everything from his claim as the greatest shooter of all time and as someone who has changed the sport, possibly more than any other, the player has things. done enough to rank as maybe one of the four or five best players in basketball history, you know, right now, obviously, being in the NBA is a very short period of my life, so from 21 to 21, I hope to play another six years. and then you think about what you want to do with the rest of your life and hopefully we're laying the foundation and the framework for you to know success in this space and do it our way and really enjoy the journey.

So let's take a look at his current pace. Steph would shatter Ray Allen's career three-point record for 1,000 three-pointers if he keeps doing what he's doing for six more seasons, Scotty. That's notable, first of all, when it comes to ranking favorite athletes. In the realm of sports, a common tendency among NBA fans is to undermine one player by magnifying the weaknesses of another; However, the argument being made here, at least in my view, is not about tearing down others, but rather a compelling case to place Steph Curry on The Best of the Best list and the reason behind it.

Of this is quite simple, without a doubt, Stephan Curry's incomparable shooting ability is a pillar in making his case not only as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, but potentially as a top-tier individual among the four first. or five ranks in history Beyond mere statistics and records, his legacy extends to fundamentally reshaping the way basketball is played. At the heart of this transformation is Steph's ability to redefine offensive strategies through his incredible skill set from beyond the three-point line. It's time to deeply consider this fact during Steph Curry's MVP season in 2015, only a mere 14 NBA players achieved a three-point shooting accuracy of 40 or better and, surprisingly, among these 14 only three players defined the traditional roles of point guards or shooting guards who mark the start. a new era in which big men, even traditional back-to-the-basket players, were beginning to venture beyond the arc to accommodate basketball's most popular shot, but the Tides have since changed remarkably quickly in the recent season 2023, a staggering 36 players boasted three. -shooting accuracy of 40 or better, interestingly, less than half of these players were actually a point guard or shooting guard, a change that highlights the new NBA and the new balance between elite great shooters and elite guards, far from the days when great players shooting from distance was a rarity, which is why a guy like Kevin Durant, who is in the discussion for the best score of all time, decided in 2016 that the reward he would get for the fun that he had experienced playing with Steph Curry would far outweigh the reaction. and the public beating he received for daring to play for the team that just won 73 games and eliminated them from the playoffs.

What Steph Curry has accomplished on a personal level is truly impressive. I mean, he's done things that go above and beyond. What even the human mind can really understand here is like these are two of the best basketball shooters of the last 50 years in the world and then you see Steph Curry do this like we talked about at the time when we talked about Draymond. and we talked about the moment it happened, like, this is almost different than anything you know we've done, while some people like Michael Jordan say that Magic is definitely the greatest point guard of all time and he doesn't. is.

It's even debatable. I disagree because simply aside from his three-point revolution, Steph Curry is largely responsible for almost everything being very different in today's NBA than it was before. I mean, magic revolutionized counterattacking and I think it's by far the best. passer and playmaker in the history of basketball, but there is something that draws the positive side between what Magic did best and what Steph does best shooting and revolutionizing the game with his shots and his shot selection just has a lot more influence In the game of basketball you pass, in fact, it's not even close.

I literally try to do everything. I try to do all the tricks if I try to chase him so they don't shoot threes because they're knocking down threes. Alright. in the painting, I'm like Drew Holiday made my exact point, other than he was absolutely flabbergasted trying to describe the experiences of him protecting Steph Curry. He made some very smart points, one of them being that the three-point shot demoralizes opponents like anything else Steph's shooting range has done. He certainly had a massive impact on defensive strategies, forcing teams to scramble to defend against not only his deep brain shots, but also having to be alert as soon as he crosses half court because he instantly becomes a threat.

Range-dominant personnel are the direct reason players now prioritize 3-pointers over twos, which in turn is forcing defenses across the NBA to bend and break trying to suppress a team's ability to catch fire from Beyond the Arc because as soon as the first three fall, the game can explode. In a matter of minutes, even if one person on a team receives a hot hand, this is what is now known as the

curry

effect. It has pushed the NBA toward a more analytical approach, an evolution that fans have embraced wholeheartedly, drawn to electrifying, high-scoring contests. with players launching shots from seemingly impossible distances all over the basketball court, sparking a scoring renaissance in the NBA that might not have been possible if it weren't for Steph Curry to put this into perspective, league-wide offensive ratings they remained at 107.6 in 2008, a number that had increased to 112.3 in the 2020-2021 season.

For context, the average points per 100 possessions in the NBA during the 1990 season was 107.4, but that's a huge increase compared to a decade later, in 2000, when this number plummeted. At just 97 points per 100 possessions, an often overlooked facet of Curry's journey is his global influence. His impact resonates across continents, from here in North America to God knows where, carrying the message that anyone can make it to the NBA if they work hard. enough on his shooting, I mean, forget about being six nine and athletic like LeBron and forget about being a 6-6 missile out of space like MJ, just learn to be a takedown shooter and boom, you're on the right track, I mean, it has become a game of the big man in his kitchen, where he puts on his sneakers and his t-shirt and starts cooking, when did we ever think that a two-meter tall player in the discussion for the best player world would go on record saying that a 6-3 point guard was the best player in the league, I mean, this man is armed with the greatest wrist movement ever known to man and his influence inspires even those who are simply the being average human like you and me, while quantifying the steps of immense influence is virtually impossible, the visual evidence is overwhelming its reach extends across television screens, sports center highlights and radio debates its impact is inescapable It's summed up in the words of Shaquille O'Neal, a dominant force in his own right who hailed Steph Curry as his favorite current NBA player and certainly wasn't the least bit reluctant to appear on television. national team after Steph Curry won his fourth NBA championship and his first Finals MVP to say that Steph had been on his list of the 10 greatest players of all time, words inevitably fall short.

In attempting to encapsulate the journey Curry had taken transcending the boundaries of basketball and becoming a universal symbol of excellence while paying tribute to his legacy, the most fitting tribute might be to carve his face alongside the pantheon of icons on Mount Rushmore from obscurity. Until the journey of legend Steph Curry has been extraordinary, continually raising the bar for individual supremacy in the NBA, so I leave you with this, how can a player with such a groundbreaking and soulful impact not get at least recognition? by one of the Mount? Rushmore takes on the NBA: How much longer are we going to go as NBA fans without putting Steph Curry's name firmly in the discussion of not only the greatest point guard of all time, but also one of the de facto

goat

s? along with Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant?

Tell us where you stand in the hot Steph Curry debate taking place and where Steph consistently ranks in the yearbook.