Does Steph Curry make your top 10 all time?

[RCM88x]

Why do people care about celebrity lists at all?

[scrabbarista]

I love Steph. I think he's truly great, and at his best, even transcendent, but that doesn't mean I have to shoehorn him into a top 10 list. The notion of "top 10" is arbitrary, and a player doesn't have to crack the top 10 to be considered an all-time great at the highest level. The number of players who have ever played the game expands every year, yet a lot of people stick with 10 as the max number of true greats. I suppose that's partly due to human nature, but the proliferation of top 10 lists throughout culture reinforces the notion that the number means more than it does.

A quick search says that 4,509 players have played in the NBA. The supposed best 10 players of all time represents 0.22 percent of that group. When that pool was 2,000 players, 10 represented 0.5 percent of that group. If we have to put players in an absolute order, then I'm guessing top 20 now is a more elite club than top 10 was in 1990. Curry is no less remarkable as a player if he winds up somewhere in the mid-teens.

I'm an advocate for tiers over fixed ranking, and my tiers would go 1A, 1B, then 2, 3, and so on. Right now, I'd put Curry in tier 2, and if he builds a few more years of peak play, I'd move him up to 1B. Being in 1B is rarefied air to me.

Very well said. In 1990, I likely would've had Jerry West in my top ten. Now he's not in my top twenty. It doesn't mean he's any less of a player now. It just means a lot more guys have played since then.

I prefer the idea of certain levels or tiers that players can reach, and any number of players can reach a given tier. Currently, I'd put the most significant tier as the Top Twelve (there is also a Top Three, which is really a subset of the Top Twelve, rather than its own group). I'd put Kobe in the last spot, with Dirk as the highest player outside of that tier (though he might've been within it if not for the officiating in the 2006 Finals, but let's not get distracted by that huge can of worms!). I have Curry ninth, as I think he's the same kind of iconic, successful, impactful figure as players like Russell, Magic, Bird, etc..

[1993Playoffs]

Forgot I made this thread. Still not top 10 imo. Needs a few more prime level seasons to overtake Bird imo.

[LAL1947]

I think Steph is going to end up being #12-15 on my list, still not sure. I'll wait a few more years.

[KGtabake]

Υes.
1. I enjoy watching him play more than any other player in history.
2. He's a winner.
3. He changed the way i anticipate basketball more than anyone i have been able to watch(I'm 41).
Literally game changer.
4. He has the accolades.
5. He has the stats.
6. He's the reason for one of the most legendary teams in history.
7. His peak is up there.
8. He has enough prime years.
9. He has the longevity needed.

I'm sure i can write more things but it's not necessary.

[ceiling raiser]

He was top 10 on my list after 2019, honestly. He had 7 top 5 seasons at that point, including several at a high MVP level (2016, 2017, possibly 2019). Top 5 is much harder to crack, though.

[wojoaderge]

It's possible

[JordansBulls]

This is the Steph Curry era since 2010.

[LAL1947]

This is the Steph Curry era since 2010.

Since 2014-15*. I can't wait for this era to end and for the era of Luka to begin! I think he's the most intelligent of the players with the skill profile that I like (MJ, Kobe, Hakeem, T-Mac, Kawhi). If dough-boy can drop 30 LBs or go back to his Real Madrid playing weight, who knows, he may have what it takes to make it onto Mount Rushmore.

[freypies]

I think a top 10 list is incredibly difficult and futile to determine considering the difference in competition across eras, the changes in play style, the lack of footage of the earlier days, etc.

Curry has reached a level where an argument can certainly be made for him being top 10, and he is probably in my personal top 10.

[ceiling raiser]

This is the Steph Curry era since 2010.

Steph’s first year as a top five player was 2012-13, and not everybody agrees so how is it his era since 2010?

[oaktownwarriors87]

Reggie Miller's Top 10: He doesn't want to put them in an order because "it's not fair since it's different eras"...

- Magic
- Jordan
- Bill Russell
- Lebron
- Kareem
- Kobe
- Tim Duncan
- Shaq
- Larry Bird
- Steph

With the exception of LeBron, his list is pretty much all the former MVP's that have had the most playoff success against elite teams.

Former MVP's and their playoffs record against teams with an SRS of 5+

Russell: 3-1 (75.00%)
Jordan: 14-7 (66.66%)
Curry: 6-4 (60.00%)
Kobe: 13-9 (59.09%)
Magic: 7-5 (58.33%)
Shaq: 11-8 (57.89%)
Duncan: 7-8 (46.66%)
Hakeem: 6-7 (46.15%)
Kareem: 5-6 (45.45%)
Garnett: 5-6 (45.45%)
Bird: 3-4 (42.86%)
Durant: 4-6 (40.00%)
Nowitzki: 6-10 (37.50%)
Chamberlain: 4-7 (36.36%)
Malone: 6-11 (35.29%)
Westbrook: 3-6 (33.33%)
Giannis: 1-2 (33.33%)
LeBron: 4-9 (30.77%)
Nash: 4-10 (28.57%)
Moses: 2-5 (28.57%)
Barkley: 3-8 (27.27%)
Harden: 3-9 (25.00%)
Robinson: 2-6 (25.00%)
Jokic: 1-3 (25.00%)
Iverson: 0-2 (00.00%)