{"id":169478,"date":"2025-09-26T03:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169478\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T03:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:09:07","slug":"warriors-stephen-curry-ranked-as-the-seventh-best-player-in-the-nba-by-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169478\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors\u2019 Stephen Curry ranked as the seventh-best player in the NBA by ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Curry is about to enter his 17th season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a>, and yet he\u2019s still a premier talent in the modern NBA landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Curry averaged 24.5 points per game, and shot 39.7 percent from three-point range as the Warriors reached the second round of the playoffs. Curry was named an All-Star, and All-NBA for the 11th in his career for his efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the Warriors looking to contend once again this season, ESPN has ranked Curry as the seventh-best player in the NBA heading into the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will bend coverages and be the center of every defensive game plan when he is on the floor this season,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46306892\/nba-rank-2025-rankings-top-10-players-jokic-durant-lebron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN\u2019s Anthony Slater<\/a> said. \u201cThe Warriors&#8217; success also remains tied to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith him, they eliminated the 52-win Rockets in the first round and took a 1-0 lead on the Timberwolves in the semis. After he injured his hamstring in Game 1 and sat out, the Warriors lost four consecutive games and were eliminated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors are looking to snag another title while Curry is still a top talent, and the 2025-26 season should give them a good chance to do so. They\u2019ll have a full season of Jimmy Butler after trading for him at last season\u2019s deadline, and despite a quiet offseason, the Warriors are still equipped with a roster capable of making a deep run, especially if Curry remains healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Curry is about to enter his 17th season with the Golden State Warriors, and yet he\u2019s still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-169478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}