Steph is one of my favorite players ever and he is playing out of his mind right now. However, I can’t in good faith put him as a Top 5 of all time, even though I want to.
Curry’s next mountain to climb is an all defensive team. That’s the only thing missing from putting him in the same conversation as MJ, Bron, Kobe, Kareem, & Duncan imho. They were all top of the league two way players. Steph is no longer a defensive liability, but is it unrealistic to expect modern players to be All NBA and All Defense if they want to be considered all-time greats?
Maybe I’m trying to force a player into a conversation that they don’t belong…
Duncan was a world beater at what a PF is supposed to do. Curry changed what it means to do a point guard job. Curry changed the game.
Curry > Duncan purely from the standpoint of influence on the game, what Curry accomplished with his gravity in 2016 alone makes him a top 5 candidate. Winning 73 games, scoring 400 3s in a season, winning the only ever unanimous MVP, being an entire offensive engine unto himself are just things that have never been accomplished before and will never be accomplished again (probably)