Stephen Curry Fan Shaquille O’Neal Refuses to Call Him the Greatest Point Guard

Stephen Curry and Shaquille O’Neal are both four-time champs. Curry won this year’s title and has proved himself to be named among the greatest point guards ever. O’Neal is a big fan of the man, but he has admitted that the Warriors superstar is not the greatest point guard ever. The Lakers legend was reacting to a comment by Andre Iguodala on his podcast where the latter declared Curry to be the “greatest point guard of all time”.

Shaq disagreed with the notion. “We’re playing positionless basketball right now,” said O’Neal. He continued, “Draymond plays the five but he is not a center. So, even though Steph is playing point guard, he don’t do point guard stuff. Draymond was more of a point guard on the team than anybody but because of his (Curry) size and his height, they say, ‘Okay, he is a point guard.’ No, he is not a point guard.”

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Shaq enumerated, “His (Curry) category is that is the greatest shooter of all time. He has his own special solidified category. He is not the greatest point guard because he wasn’t playing point guard style basketball”. Shaq concluded by saying that Curry is probably one of the greatest two guards ever.

Stephen Curry cemented his place among the Greats

Stephen Curry had a great Finals series. In Game 6, he finished off the Boston Celtics with a 34-point performance which included 7 rebounds and 7 assists. He scored 54.5% from beyond the three-point line.

Curry concluded the Finals series averaging 31.2 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, and 2 steals per game. He achieved his best in Game 4 when he put up a career-high 43 points on a 14-26 shooting effort. It featured seven three-pointers. Curry still finished with 31 threes on 71 tries (42 percent), just one short of his Finals record, despite a 0-9 performance from long range in Game Five.

This season, he has broken the record of the most amount of three-pointers scored during a regular season. He has now scored 3117 haymakers in the regular season, surpassing another great shooter, Ray Allen.

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This has made him one of the greatest point guards ever. Better yet, as Shaq said, the greatest shooter ever. He may not be your prototypical point guard, but he is there, sitting at the same table as Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas.