If Steph Curry was 6'5, where would he rank in the all time greats?

[ATRAIN53]

What if his left foot was actually his right?

This too, has kept me up at night.

thought too, his ankle.

Steph at 6'5" with those handles and shooting ability?
He'd be the best PG ever. The guy is a wizard with the ball, so this means he's also have bigger hands which would be lethal.

Think playoff 2020 Dame Lillard but bigger, better and stronger.

no matter what height, he's the best NBA shooter ever.
It's Jordan-esque his ability. No one will ever do it better.

Many will try but his stats are unassiliable

[SecondTake]

What if Jr Smith was 8 foot 6, with jordans quickness and vertical, the speed of Usain bolt, and with no joint or bone problems and never missed a game with injury. What if he could guard the rim like Hakeem and the paremeter like pippen, while being a 98% free throw shooter, and 45% from three on 15 shots per game?

[prefontaine]

I'm full of these, stick around.

If you want to be more serious about it, how do players become all time great players by skipping seasons for such things? I had a lot of respect for the player and now after seeing that play out, a lot less.

We aren't talking about him being a player. We're literally talking about how he didn't steal 40 million dollars from the economy. The money was already there. It already existed. There was no wealth destruction.

I'll remind you to check the OP and title. We are talking about him being an alltime player or not.

As to the point you want to make this about, nobody here but you has brought up "weath destruction". Like your username tho.

Didn't you literally write "he stole 40 million from the economy to sit out a season and made it that much harder for me to get my hands on it."?

[Jedzz]

We aren't talking about him being a player. We're literally talking about how he didn't steal 40 million dollars from the economy. The money was already there. It already existed. There was no wealth destruction.

I'll remind you to check the OP and title. We are talking about him being an alltime player or not.

As to the point you want to make this about, nobody here but you has brought up "weath destruction". Like your username tho.

Didn't you literally write "he stole 40 million from the economy to sit out a season and made it that much harder for me to get my hands on it."?

That makes no claims about weath destruction on his end. I said he basically stole it. Which isn't directly true, someone gave it to him. But he and his team chose to not allow him to give anything back for it for a season. You may be thinking about him spending that money as if it's just as equally going back to the economy at large as normal. That however is not the point at all.

He just took a paid leave worth a massive portion of 40 million beyond the typical 6 weeks to 2 months an injury like this is afforded. He takes the money and keeps living his highlife while he now adds nothing back for the year to the economy that surrounds that team,and the fans and companies that support all the teams and entire industry that made funding the 40 million/yr possible in the first place.

It doesn't matter if the team can and had chosen to float itself through a tank. It doesn't matter if 500 warriors fans come here to post how much they don't care. They are but a drop in the bucket. What you appear to think about this is inconsequential. It's not just about that them. Without him adding to the pie, he's stealing from the pie and that's coming out of everyone's pocket. Injuries to star players are the risk teams and the entire league's industry bear. Their importance to all is exactly what makes these ridiculous contract amounts possible. Long fake injury outages, especially for star talents on max deals, are something the league should fight ruthlessly to curtail. It's also what makes resting players so hurtful to the league. But that's been sort of a trade off because if it helps the players stay healthy to play longer into the season some see a couple games off as worthwhile to the total output. If all the star players took next season off so their teams could tank, what do you presume would be the results? Do you think you could even approximate the actual losses?

Getting back to what makes a player an alltime great. Faking the length of injury recovery times doesn't top my ratings.

[Soulyss]

If Curry was 6'5 and had a Bledsoe type of muscular build, elite at defense, more physical and better at driving to the rim, while keeping all of his other attributes, where would he rank in the all time list? Basically if you turn his weaknesses into strengths, how much better would he be? I think he would be top 5 easily.

The thing is, he likely would not have kept his current elite traits because he had to develop them to make up for a lack of the others and his ability to depend more greatly on his athleticism.

So... Frankly... about the same? I actually like Curry, but I'll never consider him the "Killer" in the Jordan, Kobe, and to a great extent Lebron from a personality / drive standpoint.

[DrCoach]

His name would be Michael Jordan

[ellobo]

About 2" closer to the top of the list.

[Parataxis]

What if I was a foot taller, could shoot like Curry, rebound like Drummond, and play defence like Gobert?

Where would I rank on the all time greats then?

[dickfox]

#2 just a hair behind Karl "The Mailman" Malone

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[Mylie10]

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[bmurph128]

If everyone were built like Stephen Curry, would anyone be better than him?

That's the real question.

Jordan, even at 6'3, would quite easily be better than Steph

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[Fantastik_Goat]

He would rank behind 6’5 Nate Robinson.