To make the claim today that Stephen Curry is the best basketball player alive is like walking up to an apartment door that has waves of smoke billowing out from the cracks around its frame, and placing your hand on the searing hot door knob.
The moment you open that door, the backdraft explosion would be enough to incinerate the average basketball fan.
But our very own SleepyFreud pointed out that that daring statement was just made by the analysts at FiveThirtyEight, when they unleashed a powerful but unfortunately named algorithm (“RAPTOR”) to calculate the league’s most valuable players since the 2013-2014 season.