Recently, Dirk Nowitzki was at home on the couch when his infant son fell asleep on his chest. He was now trapped, as any parent knows, at the mercy of baby slumber. But in Nowitzki’s case, he wasn’t concerned. As he explains: “The Warriors were on and I got to watch Steph!”
This is where we are now: Everybody wants to watch Stephen Curry, even Hall of Fame opponents. We live in an age populated by some of the greatest talents in NBA history—soaring giants like LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Anthony Davis—and yet the player many would pay the most to see live is a thin, 6’3" guard with regular-guy hops.