{"id":130749,"date":"2025-03-25T14:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=130749"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:21:38","slug":"victor-oladipo-stephen-curry-best-player-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/25\/victor-oladipo-stephen-curry-best-player-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NBA All-Star Reveals Unusual Pick for ‘Best Player Ever’"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, many have debated who the best player in NBA history is. Usually, people consider the most dominant players in league history as the best or greatest of all time. This typically includes players like Michael Jordan<\/a> or LeBron James<\/a>. However, former Indiana Pacers<\/a> All-Star Victor Oladipo<\/a> recently shared his controversial pick for the best NBA player of all-time: Stephen Curry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recently, Oladipo called Curry the “best player ever” because of his legacy and how much he changed the game of basketball (YouTube link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cBest player ever. Yeah. And I would consider him that because\u2014he\u2019s supposed to be playing golf, bro. If you really look at him\u2014he\u2019s supposed to be playing golf. He\u2019s out there 100%. And he hittin\u2019 aay out there, bro. 100%. For real. He doing his thing\u2014it\u2019s\u2026 he is\u2026 he\u2019s changed the game completely, bro. And you just\u2014you said something so profound: I saw him. I saw him. I had to guard him. You know what I\u2019m saying? It\u2019s really different. And he has changed the game so drastically that guys shoot 50 threes a game now\u2014and that\u2019s only because of him. That\u2019s it,” Oladipo said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Golden State Warriors<\/a> guard is a future Hall of Famer. Additionally, many consider him the greatest point guard in NBA history over the likes of Magic Johnson<\/a>. Throughout his career, Curry is an 11-time All-Star, a 10-time All-NBA selection, a four-time NBA Champion, a two-time MVP, a one-time NBA Finals MVP, and an Olympic gold medalist.<\/p>\n

Victor Oladipo Calls Stephen Curry the ‘Best Player Ever’<\/h2>\n

Stephen Curry Is Aiming for Another Championship<\/h3>\n

Despite already having four rings to his resume, Curry has made it clear he is not finished yet. In November, the Davidson alum said winning a fifth championship is “the only thing I’m playing for at this point.”<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, it\u2019s the only thing I’m really playing for at this point,\u201d Curry said on the NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDubs Talk,\u201d which debuted Wednesday. \u201cIt’s the only thing that matters in the sense of accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI still love to play the game,\u201d Curry said. \u201cI still love to come to work every day. Basketball is still fun for me. The challenge of trying to figure out how to win on a nightly basis, I still get up for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite a rocky season for most of the year, Curry and the Warriors have gotten back on track. With just a couple of weeks left in the regular season, the Warriors are 41-30 and own the No. 6 seed in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

The Last Word<\/h3>\n

The Warriors turned things around drastically since acquiring Jimmy Butler<\/a> from the Miami Heat<\/a>. While a championship is far from a guarantee this year, Curry and the Warriors are in a good spot to make it competitive and go on a deep playoff run. A lot of basketball remains, but it looks good for Golden State. They still have a lot of competition ahead of them in the West. However, as long as Curry is still active, the Warriors will always have a chance to win it all.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years, many have debated who the best player in NBA history is. Usually, people consider the most dominant players in league history as the best or greatest of all time. This typically includes players like Michael Jordan or LeBron James. However, former Indiana Pacers All-Star Victor Oladipo recently shared his controversial pick for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":130754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,2,62,3],"tags":[48,351],"class_list":["post-130749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-featured","category-nba","category-news","tag-stephen-curry","tag-victor-oladipo"],"modified_by":"Elie Deglaoui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130755,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130749\/revisions\/130755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}