Stephen Curry Essay

Record after record and year after year, Stephen Curry is the best to ever shoot the basketball. Some may say, what about Ray Allen or Reggie Miller? Both of which are first and second on the all time three pointers made list. People then use that to say even if Steph will break those you cant say he’s the best ever yet. But I believe strongly that he is truly the greatest to ever do it.
When people even try to compare Stephen curry to anyone the only people I can understand are Ray Allen or Reggie Miller. Well, that was until I did the research and saw even they weren’t ever as good as Stephen Curry. In 1996 season Reggie Miller has a career best of 229 threes in one year which Ray Allen surpassed by 40 threes in his 2005 season with the Super Sonics. This became the new record for most threes in one year and it stayed for six years with nobody really even coming close to breaking it, Until Stephen Curry had an incredible season pouring in 272 Threes in his 2012 season. Then the next year he was shy by 8 to Allen’s original record, but that 2013 season was followed by 286 threes breaking his own record he set only two years back that broke Allen’s six year standing record.
Curry has only played 6 years so far to Allen’s and Millers 18 years, giving Curry 12 years left. Figuring out that Allen had 154 threes per game in first 6 years to his 187 his last 12 years and Miller had 120 his first six years to 154 his last 12 showing that Curry will only get better at shooting. Only 23 games into his sixth season Stephan already has 119 threes putting him on pace to have 424 threes just this season alone, having him shatter his own record breaking year twice in a