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Move over, LeBron James: You are no longer the best basketball player on the planet.
LeBron has passed the torch, and what is amazing is who the torch was passed to and how convincing the move has been.
The new best player in the world is not Kevin Durant, who has long been the second-best in the world. It is not Anthony Davis, despite the assumption of many that Davis was the heir apparent.
Rather, it is that shooter out of Davidson College, Stephen Curry.
And how did the 6-foot-3 (wink, wink), not-really-a-shooting-guard, not-really-a-point-guard ascend to the throne of World's Greatest Basketball Player just nine years after barely being recruited out of high school?
He became the perfect basketball weapon, a force who can't be guarded and can only be stopped if he stops himself.
We all know about his great shooting and incredible range. But what separates Curry is that he doesn't need off-the-ball movement and picks to create space for a shot. He has an amazing ability to create his own space, and he doesn't even need that much.
And he can shoot from anywhere on the court, so the defense can't ease up and they can't sit back, even from deep.
The combination of not needing a lot of space and having incredible range creates a huge problem for defenses.
Whoever is guarding Curry needs to respect his range and play him tight. Curry leads the NBA with 110 points on pull-up shots, 28 more than anybody else, and he is making a whopping 48.8% of those shots.
That means getting a hand on him 25 feet from the basket, an area defenders are not used to guarding.
But when a defender does come up tight, Curry is so quick that he can then blow past the defender for an easy layup.
Or an easy dish to a big man for a wide-open bucket. Once he has a step past the defender, the defense is broken.
So, the defender can't play off Curry, because that is basically like giving him a 22-foot layup, and the defender can't play too tight, because Curry will just use his quickness and blow right by.
The only other alternative is to send two to three defenders at Curry.
He will also beat that.
Notice how calm he stays despite being surrounded by three defenders. Rather than panic and rush the dribble, Curry actually hesitates on the dribble after going behind his back, waiting for the ball to be in a better spot for his left hand.
Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas summed up the greatness of Curry with a column in The Players' Tribune, in which he explains why it is so difficult to guard Curry, noting that what makes him dangerous is that on defense, "you're always guessing."
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