Steph Curry is breaking records but how is he changing the NBA?

Steph Curry is the biggest star in the NBA at the moment, and no one else seems to be able to exist in the same planet. Our US sportswriter Alex Ferguson looks at Curry's season and examines how he and the Warriors are changing the game…

It's another three-point shot from Steph Curry, this time from nearer the halfway line than the three-point shot. The game is won in overtime, and the Golden State Warriors are one game closer to beating the 1995/96 Chicago Bulls single season record of 72-10 a record they have gone on break losing only lost nine games this season….and winning at astonishing 73 of them. They qualified for the play-offs in March, and quite frankly look unstoppable.

Steph Curry's season has been unbelievable, smashing more records than a 'Who' concert in the 1970s. He has broken his own NBA record for three-pointers in a season…he actually broke it with 24 games to go. He was aiming for 300, and he ended up with 402......402 successful three-point shots this season. 

Curry is really good at getting the ball away at the other end too - he finished the season with 169 steals, the most in the league.

The great thing for Curry is, despite leading the league in points per game average (30.1), he is also an unselfish player playing on a very unselfish team. He is eighth in the league in assists (his Warriors team-mate Draymond Green is seventh).

The Golden State Warriors love passing the ball to each other - they total 28.9 assists a game (first in the NBA), and they love drilling the ball from the three-point line, hitting 41.6 per cent of their shots from behind the arc. The 'other' shooter on the team - Klay Thompson - is No 12 in NBA scoring average to Curry's first.

Oh, and the team plays defence - they lead the league in defensive rebounds per game average (36.2), led by Green, and have strong shot blockers too, most notably Andrew Bogut.

But is Curry better than Jordan? The answer? We don't know.

They are different players. Jordan wasn't Curry's 6ft 3in (he was 6ft 6in) and he was a great defensive player as well as an offensive juggernaut. Curry is good at stealing the ball but he's not a rebounder. Unlike Curry, Jordan wasn't a brilliant three-point shooter (.332), but like Curry, he was the player that you want to have the ball in his hands when the game was on the line. And like Curry, Jordan was absolutely unstoppable.

Like the dunk fashion that swept the courts in the 1990s, more and more people are worshipping the guy who can score from anywhere. You know, be like Steph and all that.

Jordan was a bigger moneymaker outside of the court, but look for Curry to drop some jaws in the 2016 off-season.

The great thing about Curry is that he's changing the game. The three-point shot, which was never as cool as the dunk going back through the years, is suddenly hugely fashionable. It's been a record year for three-point attempts in the NBA (24.0 per game vs the previous record of 22.4 in 2015). Curry is making the change.

Why? Because if Curry and the Warriors are shooting so well from three-point range, a game can be finished by the end of the third quarter. Other teams need to shoot well to go head-to-head with the Warriors. That's why you've got almost half the league chucking up over 25 three-point attempts a game. They are just trying to keep up.

Otherwise, we won't just be celebrating Curry's Warriors, we'll be celebrating one of the shortest play-off series in the history of the game.