It’s the Golden State Warriors vs. the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. The headline practically writes itself: two-time MVP Stephen Curry vs. reigning MVP (and prohibitive MVP favorite) Nikola Jokiu0107.
While those two superstars — two of the greatest offensive players in NBA history — drive plenty of their respective team’s success, it also comes down to who can take advantage of their offensive fulcrum’s pull.
Curry practically invented the term “gravity” in a basketball context. His on-ball adventures almost always draw every type of aggressive ball-screen coverage: traps, blitzes, hedges, screen-level step-ups.