The biggest small: How Stephen Curry became the face of the NBA

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They do have a timeout, decide not to use it... curry, way downtown... bang, bang! Oh, what a shot from curry!

Luckily, something was broken, sometimes less and sometimes too much. The thing with the ankle, says Stephen Curry, was a true blessing.

In 2011, this thing happened, if not for the first time, but now that Curry's ankle was barely saving without an operation. Two more unobtrusive years had spent the small Point Guard against Davidson College to Data in the NBA, and again together with injury worries in the same place. It's a story that has brought almost my whole career to fail, Curry said at ESPN. But she has also given me the resources I need to create everything.

The blessing, from which curry spoke, bears the name Brandon Payne, the curry at the rehab, after his first OP 2011, met in Charlotte. Payne worked there with other NBA players and helped now also curry.

Together, both changed the basketball forever.

Curry, Away Downtown... Bataan! Steph Curry from Just Inside Half court!

Payne recognized early that curry would get with its size (1.91 meters) and smart stature in the NBA quite different problems than just sprayed ankles. As college sniper, the then 23-year-old had attentively made his attention and leave with a rookie record for threesome even with the big first traces. Now it was about finding the next step — and make it different if possible.

Ray Allen, when Curry was already NBA professional, had broken the all-time record of Reggie Miller and transformed a total of 2973 thrusters, 84 percent of them had set up his teammates. Curry and Payne crafted on another way. The duo exercised outside the season to perfect Curry's dribbling so that the small Point Guard could create his own throws and did not depend on players.

For $44 million, Curry 2012 signed a four-year contract with the Golden State Warriors, which, like any other team, had no idea for one of the largest bargains of the league history. At the end of this contract, curry would have long been secured as a double MVP, scoring champion and master a place in the Hall of Fame.

CURRY, Behind The Back, Puts Up A Three... Bang! Steph Curry Again, He's Got 44!

Payne played through all sorts of scenarios with curry, rarely let him throw him several times from the same place and invented code words curry to memorize to get to certain points of the course.

In addition, curry muscle mass should pack, become stronger and normally protrude. You need a good condition, he said a few years later. You have to become stronger during the game. You have to be built for a long game.

Even New York celebrates the moment when Stephen Curry officially became the best threesome contactors of the NBA. Nae via Getty Images

Exactly that was curry, at the latest 2014 with the arrival of Steve Kerr as Warriors coach. Kerr had been one of the best spacers of the league in the 1990s on the side of Michael Jordan and now responsible for talking out the last 15 percent from curry.

Kerr walked away from the pick-and-roll-bursting game of its predecessor Mark Jackson and put on a greater starting five to allow curry to allow more throws. He opened me a game style that meets me very much, where I have the opportunity to be on the ball or from the ball to open myself and my teammates chances, explains Curry.

Crossover, Step back, Three Pointer — Bang!

What anyone predicted was the beginning of a dynasty, who thrilled with basketball as perhaps no other team before. The Warriors were among Kerr to the greatest attraction of the league, because Curry with Play Thompson had a congenial partner in the back court, and Raymond Green rejected the defensive game for the injured David Lee. He always finds a way to play the right passport or put a screen, Curry praises the player who brings him to least every fourth threesome — so many no other.

Curry, Curry posted a record after another and had arrived at the Olympic at the latest 2016 as he broke his own record for transformed threes in a season — from 286 to incredible 402nd curry combined art and science, dribbling strength and accuracy, strength and condition. He met from the stand, from the centerline, from the corner, from the run, on a leg.

The style of the Warriors had never existed, Curry took an average of at least ten threesome per game and almost turned every second. I do not know what else I should say, Kerr said over the years again and again because he did not know what else he should say. It's the same after every game, just a wonder.

While LeBron James was still considered the best player of the league, Curry became the greatest show and at the same time LeBron's largest rival. Four times, Curry's Warriors and LeBron Cleveland Cavaliers were facing the finals between 2015 and 2018, three times, Golden State — and gave away 2016 a 3: 1 lead.

Ahead to curry, curry sets, fires, puts it up... Bang! Steph Curry! From Way Downtown!

Warriors games are now very visited for hours before Tip-Off, because curry hits the grandstand even when warming up, out of sitting or other basket. No player did not have commentator icon Mike Been so often Bang screaming like Curry.

A few days now it is now that today's 33-year-old passed the all-time record of Ray Allen and again all the stool tore, self-drawn Knicks fans in Madison Square Garden.

People have compared him to me and Reggie, with other earlier protectors, great shooters in the NBA, says all who cheered himself and curry immediately hugged. But he, and I have said that many times, he really moves in a very own league. He is able to play as he plays, and throwing the ball as he throws him.., There is really nothing that anyone can do to prevent him from meeting the basket.

Record broken: Stephen Curry can not retire the tears. Nae via Getty Images

Curry has made the abnormal normal, and it would almost be insulting, calling him later our as best throwers of NBA history, he is long the face of the league, past LeBron James or Kevin Durant or Gianni Antetokounmpo. I think people do not understand how big his engine is, LeBron said once and congratulated curry Via Twitter to the record. He never stops moving.

And will never stop exciting.

Curry, Double Team... Bang! Huh, How, What a shot from curry!