Raptors Coach Releases Bold Statement About Stephen Curry

Warriors star Stephen Curry has a huge role on the floor, and even Raptors coach Nick Nurse knows it. Curry’s three-point shooting is changing the way basketball is perceived.

“I call him a transformational player,” Nurse said. “He’s got kids all over the world shooting from 40 feet away. I think even as you’ve seen the three-point shot become so rapidly used in the last three or four years, a lot of that is because of Golden State and Steph and Klay and some of the other guys, KD, the other guys they have.”

Since the 2014-15 campaign, the number of three-point attempts between 28-40 feet has tripled, and the accurasy has jumped really high, too. In that season, players attempted 1,308 threes from 28-40 feet and made 308 for a 23.6 percent rate. This campaign, players attempted 4,177 threes in this range, and had 1,302 for a 31.2 percent clip.

“Now you’re seeing quickly the league start to shoot six and eight feet behind the line pretty regularly,” Nurse added. “You didn’t see that maybe even a couple years ago. So I think he has transformed the way people view the three-pointer, the distance of the three-pointer as well.”

The Warriors star is well aware of his style and its impact on younger players.

“I think about it, especially as of late where you have those kind of run-ins with parents or kids or coaches who are developing the next generation of talent,” he said. “They kind of have some of the same sentiments around what kids are interested in in the game of basketball, and what they see on TV and what they try to mimic and stuff like that. So, it’s kind of a cool experience.”

Curry is writing history, and he has his name written in NBA record books.

“I always talk about the work that goes into it,” Curry said. “Everybody sees the finished product these days on social media whenever you see the glitz and glam and what happens out there on the floor, but hopefully they understand and appreciate the countless hours that go into pretty much anybody on this level that is putting on an NBA jersey and the hard work that goes into it.

“Like Draymond (Green) said, you don’t just wake up and accidentally or coincidentally be great at something. You got to put the time in.”

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