Stephen Curry is not just an MVP, he's the MOST valuable player ever! Check out this video for some amazing highlights of this basketball legend.
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The Most Valuable Player Ever
The Most valuable NBA player of all time isn’t Michael Jordan or LeBron James. While you know that Jordan and LeBron are the two GOATs of the basketball world, they’re not as valuable as you think they are. No, we’re not talking about the kind of value that wins the Most Valuable Player trophy. Instead, we’re talking about the kind of value that turns a million-dollar franchise into a billion-dollar organization. And the most valuable player is a 6’2” skinny point guard named Stephen Curry, who helped transform the Golden State Warriors into a massive sports empire.
But what’s the secret behind Curry’s value? Well, let’s swish ourselves into the story of how Stephen Curry became the most valuable player ever.
Chapter 1: The Golden State Struggles
There was a time in history when the Golden State Warriors was the last franchise you’d ever want to be playing for if you were an NBA player. This team didn’t have the most successful history as far as winning NBA championships. Of course, they won the championship in 1975, but they eventually fell into mediocrity during the 80s and 90s.
People loved the Warriors during the early 90s, though, because that squad had one of the most entertaining offenses in the league. Relying on the running and gunning of Chris Mullin, Tim Hardaway, and Mitch Richmond, the Warriors were the most entertaining group to watch. Run TMC, the name of that trio, was one of the first groups of stars who paved the way to the faster pace we see in today’s modern era. But that trio never won a championship. In fact, the Warriors weren’t particularly successful during the 90s up to the 2000s. That was when the franchise entered into a dreaded dark age when they failed to make the playoffs from 1995 to 2006.
The Warriors couldn’t even win at least 40 games during those 11 straight years of missing the playoffs. It wasn’t as if the Warriors had bad players. They actually had good scorers who fit the very style that the franchise was known for. During the 2000s, they fielded names like Antawn Jamison, Jason Richardson, and Baron Davis.
They were making three-pointers and running the floor way before those things became trends in the league. But it was an entirely different era with a different style. So, as fun as the Warriors were to watch, they weren’t anywhere close to title contention. They couldn’t even make the playoffs.
The struggles the Warriors went through for decades were confusing because this squad was playing for a big market in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you know your NBA history, teams playing in big markets and big cities usually have the advantage against smaller teams because free agents are more likely to play for them. Big-market teams also tend to have higher valuations, allowing them to afford facilities, personnel, and other luxuries that should attract big-name players or help the team improve. That’s why the Warriors weren’t close to being the most valuable franchise in the league.
To put things into perspective, the most successful team of the early 2000s, the Los Angeles Lakers, was worth 447 million in 2004. The New York Knicks, who were successful during the 90s but bad during the 2000s, were worth 400 million the same year. Meanwhile, the Warriors were valued at 188 million. That’s not bad at all if you take it at face value. But the Warriors were worth less than half the Knicks, even though both teams weren’t exactly successful that decade. When compared to franchises playing for smaller cities, that number is even more surprising. In 2004, the Cleveland Cavaliers were worth 258 million. That’s probably the LeBron James effect there, but the Cavs were already worth more than the Warriors a year ago before LeBron joined them.
The interesting part here is that the Warriors have always been in one of the most valuable markets in the world. Northern California’s population may not be large, but it’s the tech capital of the country. On the other hand, a city like Cleveland has always been on the lower end of the midsized market list. But midsized market teams still had higher valuations compared to the Warriors.