Curry came at The King, didn't miss, and now LeBron's chasing the throne [View all]

Lost in the hoopla over Stephen Curry's second straight Most Valuable Player Award, his status as the first player to have won that award unanimously and his record-setting performance in overtime after two weeks off with a sprained MCL is an equally striking accomplishment: What he's done to LeBron James.

Curry, in his unlikely rise from undersized, relatively unheralded draft pick to star player to MVP to most important player in the game, has quietly overshadowed the player who embraced the moniker the Chosen One and once held the game in his hands.

Which makes sense. We talk so often, amidst the flurry of record-breaking three pointers -- and the small-ball, ball-movement, defense-and-team-first mantra that powered the Warriors to an all-time best 73 regular-season wins -- about how Curry has revolutionized the game.

Go small. Pass the ball. Find a point guard. And above all else, shoot the three. LeBron & Co. have certainly embraced that last part of the game's evolution. They've made 134 of them in eight games so far this post-season, good for 16.8 a game. To put that in perspective, the Warriors averaged 13.3 made threes a game in the regular season.


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