Stephen Curry is a basketball anomaly. There are, across all sports, few players who can say they have a higher mastery of a specific skill in their game than he does. If you take away the hometown biases, he’s just objectively fun to watch because he makes the impossible seem possible.

Perhaps the craziest part about Curry’s transcendence is that he’s doing it based on pure skill. Outside of Jordan and Kobe (who were also both 6’6 and could jump out of the gym), Steph is the most skilled player in the sport’s history. He’s electric, doing this all at a modest height of 6’3 in shoes.

While he’s certainly genetically prosperous to be playing in the NBA at all, he’s inspired a whole generation, that they can make their wildest dreams come true without being a freak of nature that you see in guys like LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Last night against the Nets, Curry had the Barclays Center rocking. Kevin Durant is having an absurd season, one of the most efficient ever to where 55/45/90 isn’t out of his massive reach, but it wasn’t the 7-foot Slim Reaper who was getting MVP chants in that building: It was his former teammate. Steph put up 37 which included a barrage of 9 threes, each one probably getting its own highlight moment somewhere on the internet. This is generational talent at its finest.

This was a common theme in both 2015 and 2016, when Steph won his MVPs. There hasn’t been a player nearly as fun to watch as Steph Curry, hate him or love him. According to Twitter, he also got MVP chants in Charlotte. It’s clear the NBA has a player that the fans just love to watch.

However, things like Steph being targeted by the refs make it harder to watch him. The game has become more frustrating because Curry doesn’t get the respect he deserves. There’s a lot that goes into this, from fan perspective of him dominating several peoples favorite players and franchises over the years, as well as him clearly being the best player in the league at some points during his career.

When he does finally retire, his retirement tour is going to light up probably every road arena the Warriors play in. Because no matter what the media says, or what Twitter says, there is almost no way you can hate Steph Curry. You have to respect his level of basketball mastery while it lasts, whether he’s forced you into a rebuild (shoutout the Houston Rockets) or not.

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