Even In Year 17, Steph Curry Going Nuclear Is Still The Greatest Show In Sports

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Last night in my Wemby blog, I talked about how there are 3 players in the NBA who are the very definition of "must watch". Between Wemby, Jokic, and Steph Curry, if any of those players are on the floor, you cannot look away. Every second they are on the floor your eyes are locked onto them, mostly because at any given moment they can show you something you've never seen before.

For someone like Steph Curry, he's been must watch for I'd say a solid 17 years. When Steph gets going, there's truly nothing like it in sports. Sports fans around the globe collectively freaking the hell out while Steph does some crazy shit in a late night West Coast game is about as good as it gets. In his prime, there may not have been a more terrifying player in his era. You felt helpless going up against Prime Steph. Shit, you still feel helpless going up against Steph even in Year 17. As someone who has had his heart ripped out of his chest and shoved down his throat by Steph Curry just a few years ago, I can confirm he's just as terrifying as ever. 

Take tonight's dominance in what was yet another Late Night Steph Classic. Shit like this will never, ever, ever, ever, ever get old. 

17 straight points to end the 4th and start OT, this was as vintage Late Night Steph as you're ever going to see. The fact that every single time the Nuggets threw a haymaker, you knew deep down that it didn't matter. Steph Curry is inevitable. Those bombs to tie the game in the final moments were the least surprising buckets in the history of getting buckets. You knew the second Steph was able to get his shot off that he was going to bury those threes. That's what he does, he's Steph Curry!

The fact that this is still happening in Year 17 is what I would call, ridiculous. So we're just never going to see any regression? Cool cool cool. The player I saw tonight looks like a guy who absolutely has a ton of good basketball left in him

and I'd go so far as to say that as long as Steph Curry is alive and able to play in basketball games for the Warriors, they are to be treated as a real threat. I know they're old as shit, but if they are healthy? It's very hard to bet against Steph Curry given his current state of dominance. Even all these years later, there's still no solve for him defensively. You can't guard him from 35 feet, he's going to run you into the ground off ball while not getting tired, and then if he has to put the ball on the floor and get to the rim, he can simply utilize his generational handle. Pretty good player in my opinion!

Who knows how much longer we'll have this kind of shit in our lives, so I say enjoy it. Eventually, it'll be gone and I feel confident in saying there will never, ever, be another Steph Curry.