Lou Williams didn’t hesitate when Stephen Curry’s name came up in a blind ranking of the greatest point guards ever. The former Sixth Man of the Year had to build his top five one player at a time on FanDuel’s Run It Back, and when Curry was revealed, Williams slid him straight into the No. 1 spot.
“Steph,” Williams said, before locking in the top spot.
From there, Williams filled out the rest of his list with Magic Johnson at No. 2, Allen Iverson at No.
3, Derrick Rose at No. 4, and Bob Cousy at No. 5.
It was a familiar stance from Williams, who has made it clear before that he sees Curry’s game in a different lane than the classic point guard mold. He has previously said Curry’s style lines up more with Iverson’s than with a traditional floor general’s.
“Steph Curry identifies as much as a point guard as Allen Iverson was,” Williams said, according to SI. “You're the point guard, you're the guy that's bringing the ball up the floor, but in essence, you're a shooting guard.”
Williams has also used Curry as the standard when talking about other point guards, including when he compared Derrick Rose’s influence on the game to the void Curry later filled after Iverson’s career wound down.
There’s a strong argument for Curry at the top, and Williams leaned into it. Curry is a two-time MVP and four-time NBA champion who changed the sport from deep range, became the first unanimous MVP in league history, and now sits as the NBA’s all-time leader in made three-pointers.
Lou Williams blind ranks these all time point guards!
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Putting him ahead of Magic Johnson, who has long been viewed as the benchmark at the position thanks to his all-around game and five championships, shows how much Curry’s impact has shifted the conversation. For Williams, the modern game’s greatest point guard is the one who changed how the position itself is played - and that’s Curry.
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