we all know that stephen curry is good he was the first person to be named most valuable player by
unanimous vote in nba history add to that a list of personal accolades as well as many experts
crowning him the greatest shooter of all time and you can see why this all-star gets so much
attention so is this praise justified is he really all that or have his achievements been blown out
of proportion curry is definitely behind a golden age for the golden state warriors but we're
talking about the greatest of all time here so he might be the greatest shooter we can see today
but does this all stack up against all the shooters who have ever hit the court in the nba
this is what we're going to look at today is stephen curry the greatest shooter of all time
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curry is the greatest shooter of all time let's start our look into curry with his background
basketball is clearly in his blood he's the son of a former nba player dell and the older brother
of current nba player seth he was born in ohio in 1988 and grew up in charlotte north carolina
where his father spent most of his nba career with the charlotte hornets dell often took curry and
his younger brother seth to his games where they would shoot with the hornets during warm-ups the
family moved with curry's father during his career and came back to north carolina once dal retired
it was here that stephen started his career and after playing basketball through high school
he enrolled at davidson's college where he set the all-time scoring record for both davidson
and the southern conference and was twice named the conference's player of the year
with his basketball saturated background and a successful college career curry clearly had
big things ahead of him he was selected for the warriors in the 2009 draft as the overall seventh
pick so we'll look at some career stats first to start our case for curry as the best shooter
of all time curry is well known for his killer three-point game and has long tortured opponents
with it he's in an all-time league of his own as far as the three-point totals in a season go
during the 2012-13 season curry set the nba record for three pointers made in a regular season
with 272 he surpassed that record in 2015 with 286 and again in 2016 with 402
he's only behind ray allen and reggie miller in the all-time career three-pointer table
and has a better field goal percentage than them at .435 so on paper you could already claim that
he's the best shooter of all time based purely on these stats but let's look a little bit deeper
curry's competition for the title of greatest shooter of all time is an illustrious list
of shooting talent down the years first there was larry bird a tall sharp shooter who rarely
produced a doug game then came reggie miller the dead-eyed clutch master seemingly born to torture
the new york knicks later was ray allen a sugary sweet shooter who was unfazed by any defender
curry is definitely in this club but does he top out and beat all of these legends when it
comes to ruthless shooting capability well quite possibly yes as it appears as though curry is
almost impossible to guard he can get his shot in a variety of ways off the dribble of a screen in
transition although defenses rack their brains on how to contain curry and limit him his variety of
moves and split second release allow him to make shots that most players wouldn't dare attempt
of course curry's predecessors also had some of these traits but did they necessarily have them
all let's do a little more digging well his peers definitely agree that he's up there as
the best of them and some journalists too kevin durant has stated that curry would beat him in a
three-point contest as well as beating anyone which is high praise from a 10-time all-star
expert kevin helen has also insisted that curry is the best of all time due to his undeniable stats
and acknowledges that this is an uncomfortable claim to make because of those legends that have
come before him but he's right the stats really do speak for themselves curry has surpassed many
records down the years and not only this but he's done it in style consistently using less games to
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on april 17 2013 against the portland trailblazers stephen curry broke ray allen's record of 269 for
most three-pointers made in a season both alan and curry played 78 games curry made three more
three-point shots but crucially in 53 less attempts this put his percentage at 0.453
versus 0.412 for allen so not only did he beat the all-time record but he also did so with far
less shots curry proved here just how lethal his shooting could be and he wasn't done yet two years
later in april 2015 curry scored 45 points against the trailblazers and broke his own record for
three pointers made in the season curry finished the year with 286 three-pointers 1.443 shooting he
bettered his own tally by 17 more three-pointers and barely damaged his percentage in the process
he was starting to prove that his greatness was no fluke and that he could consistently smash record
and he still wasn't done in 2016 during his unanimous mvp year
curry smashed his own record establishing a new mba record with 402 three-point field goals
topping his own previous league record by 116 threes golden states became the first team in
nba history to hit 1 000 threes in a single campaign finishing with 1077 three pointers
of the current top 10 list of threes in a single season curry holds five of the 10 spots he may
not have topped the crazy record of 400 plus he set in 2016 but he has added a 3-2-4 in 2017
and a 3-5-4 in 19 showing consistently that he's capable of record-shattering numbers if it wasn't
for such a fantastic season in 1516 curry would have been shattering his records year after year
curry doesn't just pull out the a game for the regular season either he does it in the playoffs
in the 2000 nba playoffs reggie miller set an nba playoff record with 58 three-pointers on 0.395
shooting it took miller 22 games to set the record in the 2015 nba playoffs curry broke
miller's record in just 13 games curry finished the 2015 nba playoffs with a 98 total 3 pointers
in 21 games played which is 40 more than miller's old record not only this but if you total up all
of curry's playoff three-pointers then you'll see him top that list as well in his playoff
career he has 470 baskets from downtown which is 53 more than his nearest rival lebron james
this is at a .401 field goal percentage which puts him level with ray allen at the top of the
list of playoff all-stars again curry dominates a three-point top 10 table when you look at the
most three pointers made in the season in the playoffs on this list he shares the top spot
of 98 with his teammate clay thompson but holds five of the top ten spots and four of the top five
his accolades as well as his stats speak for themselves he is a three-time nba champion
two-time mvp and has been named as an all-star six times as well he's also been included in
the all-nbaa team three times perhaps one of the most significant accolades that he's achieved in
his career is being a member of the 50-40-90 club because it's a very exclusive roster for shooters
to qualify a player must achieve the criteria of fifty percent field goal percentage forty percent
three point field goal percentage and ninety percent free throw percentage over the course
of a regular season only nine players have ever achieved this and curry was one of them in 2016.
other members of this club are larry bird steve nash and reggie miller a very exclusive
club indeed curry has now been successfully hitting amazing numbers season after season
of course we've already mentioned his best season and one of the best the nba has ever seen 15 16.
in those years the squad finished 93 to 9. during that time stephen averaged 5.1 triples per game
and netted 45.4 percent from the three-point line he scored 30.1 points per game and shattered the
single-season three-point record as we've already mentioned but it's not just that year curry nets a
career 43.6 percent from deep he's also averaged a blistering 3.43 pointers per game over his career
not only this but he's exceeded 41 from behind the line in every season his field goal percentage
over his illustrious career has never dipped under 45 percent curry has also averaged 23 points or
higher in the past six seasons he is consistency personified so with all of this considered curry
is clearly a contender for the best shooter of all time that's undoubtable he holds numerous records
has been doing it for the best part of a decade and his performances have helped lift the nba
championship on more than one occasion the measure of him as a player is that he transcends his sport
and is up there with the likes of lebron as one of the most well-known players in the game
but this isn't about celebrity it's about numbers curry has single-handedly with a little help from
his three-point partner in crime shown that lethal three-point shooting can win games as well as
titles all the stats back him up with that being said is he the greatest well that's up to you
but we'd say it's hard to look beyond him his combination of volume and percentage is far and
away unmatched he's already climbed to third on the nba's all-time three-point leader board
and with more seasons in the tank it won't be long before he tops out that list
curry already has the record for career three-point percentage career three-point volume
single-season three-point volume single season three-point percentage and single game three
pointers made on paper it would be hard to look to anyone else apart from the warriors talisman
stephen curry so this is stephen curry do you think he's the best shooter of all time if not
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