Oubre is having the worst shooting season of his career, by a wide margin, and Wiseman is a rookie turning the ball over on nearly 10 percent of his frontcourt touches.

Wiggins is having a strong season but he’s still largely Andrew Wiggins. There is talent in that group but Green is five years older, shooting under 40 percent from the field and under 20 percent from the 3-point line, no longer even remotely threatening as a scorer. This season, the four players Curry has shared the floor with most often are Draymond Green, Andrew Wiggins, Kelly Oubre Jr. It’s understood that Curry’s supporting cast is nowhere near as good as this season, but it’s worth clarifying the point. He’s leading the league in total points scored and 3-pointers made and he’s a single made 2-pointer away from 50-40-90 shooting percentages. In addition to the 30.1 points, Curry is averaging 5.9 assists, 5.3 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game. What’s different for Stephen Curry this season? But given the context and treated purely as an individual accomplishment, Curry’s production this season should be vastly more impressive than what he did in 2015-16. It’s weird that the MVP voting often intertwines team success and individual accomplishments in different ways for different players (in different seasons). As was pointed out in NBA Reddit, as of today Curry is averaging 30.1 points per game on a 66.9 true shooting percentage - identical numbers to the 2015-16 season when he became the first unanimous MVP in NBA history.Ĭurry is not currently atop the MVP leaderboard for a variety of reasons, the Warriors hovering barely above 0.500 being one of the major ones. It seems crazy to make an MVP case for Steph Curry using just two data points but, honestly, that’s enough to get you most of the way there. Subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. The Whiteboard is The Step Back’s daily basketball newsletter, covering the NBA, WNBA and more.

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