Stephen Curry thought he was paying the game of basketball a compliment. Instead, he lit the match for one of the hottest debates in sports talk: is today’s NBA truly the most skilled era in league history, or just the flashiest? When Curry told TODAY that he believes this generation of players represents the “most skilled era of basketball history,” Fox Sports’ analysts were quick to fire back, and they didn’t hold back on the Warriors star.
The baby-faced assassin, entering his 17th season, framed his point around the concept of evolution. “I was told by a wise man when I was getting into the league, you want to leave the league in a better place than when you found it,” he said. “I think just the way that you see the skill-level right now, the way that the range has kind of tak