Klay injured trade for curry

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Nobody is trading a Steph Curry, a top ten player of all-time who’s barely 30, without getting a lot in return.

Steph is a top 10 player all time? Really?

I don't even know if I could put him in the top 25.  And that's not a diss on curry at all, it's just acknowledging that there have been a lot of seriously great players in the history of this league. 

I mean hell, I'm not even sure if Steph makes the top 3 among point guards for me.  He certainly is not above Magic or Stockton on my eyes.  Then you have Jerry West?  That's a tough call.

Steph Curry will never be considered the top point guard of all time. But he'll always be the guy people say, after they say Magic, and CP3, and maybe Stockton, someone will say..."Well and I mean..Steph Curry"

Because at the end of the day, there aren't many guys you'd leave with the ball in their hands as time wound down to take a shot. There aren't many guys you can't write off for taking a team from down 20 in the 3rd to winning by 15 in the 4th, but Steph Curry is that guy you can't count out. When he's hot, it's a thing few players can even approach on a historic level. Damian Lillard is probably the closest now, but even in my Dame fandom I don't think he approaches MVP Curry level right now.

The 'problem' is that he's seen as playing with a perfect supporting cast. Durant, yes, obviously future hall of famer, MVP, one of the best players of his generation.

But Curry won chips without Durant. And I don't think Klay is Klay or Draymond is Draymond without Curry.

Curry weaponized the 3pt shot in a way that nobody had before him. He weaponized distance and by shooting from further away more accurately than anyone before him, he helped fundamentally change the game of NBA basketball.

Is he the best of all time? I don't know. Chris Paul probably fits the paradigm of what a point guard traditionally is better. Lord knows there have been better defenders. But show me a starting 5 that isn't as good or better with Curry in it in the history of the league. Sure they'd play differently but you just kind of have to give Curry the benefit of the doubt that the team would come along with him. Having a guy you can't leave alone but who is unguardable but who also spreads the floor with unrivaled gravity but also is a great leader and a competent to elite playmaker (in a NBA sense, not a historical sense; he doesn't have the vision on a historical level)? What team can't use that to at least replace the production of their hall of fame player? Stockton-Malone? Like Karl couldn't have benefited from Curry's gravity? Like the rest of the team couldn't? It's like that everywhere.

Steph Curry isn't a traditional point guard, so he'll never be the point God. But you gotta wonder...how much does that matter when the entire opposing squad knows he's 2 made shots away from getting hot and destroying you in 5 minutes?