Steph Curry Is The Best Shooter On The Planet And He Basically Couldn't See....Wait What?

(The Athletic) – Curry went 5 for 10 from 3-point range in Tuesday’s 116-102 win over the Denver Nuggets at Oracle Arena. It was his ninth consecutive game with at least five made 3-pointers. In those nine games, he has made 56 of 109 from deep. That’s 51.4 percent.

This turn-up has been a revelation. Curry went 4 for 15 from deep in a loss to Phoenix on March 10. He followed that with a 3-for-9 outing in a home nail-biting victory over Houston. At that point, he was shooting 36.6 percent from 3 after the All-Star break (48 of 131). In his first nine seasons combined, he shot 46.5 percent after the All-Star Game. He was in a legit slump.

Then, suddenly, it went away. What changed?

“I started wearing contacts,” Curry said late Tuesday, pulling his white “Ten in the Town” hat down on his head, creating an awning for his beaming eyes. “No, I’m serious.”

For all of his career, his life even, Curry has had issues with his eyes. He said he has a condition called Keratoconus, known in the ophthalmology field as KC. Technically, it’s an eye disease in which the cornea, normally a circle, progressively thins and takes on a cone shape.  This distortion has given Curry what is known as an astigmatism, which is a type of error in the way the light bends when entering the eye. It doesn’t distribute the light equally to the retina and leads to blurred or distorted vision. It’s a genetic condition Curry was probably born with, though scientists don’t know how it is acquired.

Wait a second. Curry — who traveled all the way across the country to the Bay, his Bible in tow — was blind the whole time? And now he can see?

“It’s exactly that,” Curry said when asked if he feels like he has new eyes. “It’s like the whole world has opened up.”

He is like many who don’t really know their vision is impaired until they get a dose of perfect vision. The contacts showed him what he’d been missing.

Since getting a rest day when Dallas came to town on March 23, Curry has made 32 of 59 from 3.

I’m sorry, what did I just read? Steph Curry, the man who does shit like this

couldn’t really see until recently? How is that even possible? Now he corrected his vision and has “new eyes” and we’re all supposed to act like we’re not all totally fucked? We already felt that way before hearing this news, but I don’t even know what you’re supposed to do if we live in a world where Steph Curry can now actually see the basket. He already was the best shooter to ever live and as far as I’m concerned he was guessing the whole time as to where the rim actually was. Now he has superhuman vision right as the playoffs are about to start, I feel like that’s bad news for everyone else.

This reminds me of when I was a kid and had just turned 16, I too was like Curry in that I never wanted glasses in the first place and always went through life squinting. I would lie to my entire family that I didn’t need glasses and could read everything perfectly. In reality I was barely able to read what was on the television. When I went into get my license I didn’t come anywhere close to passing the vision test and I’m pretty sure my Mom wanted me dead on the spot. They passed me that day only because I promised that I was going to get glasses. Shoutout to the Worcester DMV because there’s no chance that’s legal.

Sadly I was not also the best shooter on the planet but once I got my contacts for the first time I couldn’t believe this was how people really viewed the world. Even a few weeks ago when I updated my prescription, I had thought I was seeing clearly until I saw what that really meant. This is how Steph Curry now feels only his eyesight is now going to most likely lead to another title. Sure the Warriors were probably going to win it anyway, but now Curry may finally obtain that elusive Finals MVP because he’ll actually be able to see the basket.

The Warriors man, so good they’ve been killing teams while being basically blind this whole time. Sigh.