Steph Curry is, of course, having a ridiculous season and he continued it on Thursday night against Minnesota when he finished with 46 points on 15-of-25 shooting along with making eight of his 13 three-point attempts. Through ten games Curry is leading the league in scoring (33.3 points per game), three-pointers made (17 ahead of second place Damian Lillard) and Player Impact Estimate (well ahead of Blake Griffin).
Along with being one of the all-time greats himself, former MVP Kevin Garnett has been around long enough to play against some of the best to ever play the game – including Michael Jordan, whom The Big Ticket compared to Curry while speaking to reporters on Thursday afternoon.
Michael Jordan was a whole other thing, this guy is his own thing. It’s beautiful for basketball it’s beautiful for the sport….He’s playing MVP basketball, it’s beautiful ball.”
Curry obviously has a long way to go before his career can be brought up with the likes of Jordan (not that Garnett was doing that exactly in his statement). But there is one way he could surpass MJ this year, and that’s by having his Warriors team, which is off to a 10-0 start, surpass the 72-10 record that Jordan’s Bulls obtained in the 95-96 season.
They still have 62 wins to get, of course, but can anyone really imagine the Warriors losing double-digit games this season? Even with resting Curry at times, playing without Steve Kerr, and playing nine out of their first 10 games against the gauntlet that is the Western Conference, the Warriors are still 10-0 and only the Clippers have really pushed them thus far.
Regardless, Garnett knows what he’s talking about, and when he brings up Curry’s performance in the same breath as MJ, you know you are witnessing something special.