Ranking the Top 5 point guards in NBA History

2 - Stephen Curry

Stephan Curry in action

Championships: 3

Career averages: 24.2 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 6.5 APG, 1.7 SPG, 0.2 BPG

Achievements: 2x MVP, 7x All-Star, 6x All-NBA Selection, 2xScoring Champion

That Stephen Curry is the only active player on the list speaks volumes about his achievements and legacy.

Curry is almost universally considered to be the greatest three-point shooter the game of basketball has ever witnessed. Before Curry burst onto the scene, it was widely believed that there was only one way to dominate a basketball game. That was to get the ball into the hands of the big centers near the basket and for them to dominate the paint. Three-point shooting was always considered more of a fall-back option.

Curry revolutionised the game of basketball with his shooting. He showed that small diminutive guards can wreck opposition defenses with three-point shooting alone. Curry led the Golden State Warriors to the NBA Championship in 2015.

Other teams jumped onto this new approach to basketball. Soon the big men, hitherto the cornerstones of franchises, were relegated to supporting roles and big-men centric basketball was relegated to the dinosaur era of basketball.

Steph Curry inspired many kids to take up basketball. You can't teach a kid to grow seven feet tall, but you can most definitely teach kids to shoot the basketball. Today a whole generation of young, not very tall (by basketball standards), stars have now begun to thrive in the NBA on the back of their shooting.

Their journey into the NBA wouldn't have been possible without Stephen Curry showing the way. In that regard Curry is the most transformational player ever and his success changed basketball forever and is his greatest legacy.

Curry subsequently won two more NBA Championships in 2017 and 2018 and he is far from done. In the latest season he led the league in the most points scored per game and showed that he is still very much in his prime and has his eyes set on winning more titles.

Will he finish as the greatest point guard ever? It will be tough, but who would want to bet against the greatest shooter ever?