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What's a sharpshooter without great eyesight? That's the very question that plagued Stephen Curry amid a dismal shooting struggle.
The Golden State Warriors star had shot a mere 48-of-131 from deep after the All-Star break (36.6 percent), while his prior history predicted much superior shooting percentages (averaged 46.5 percent after the break in his last nine seasons).
Curry was given a one-game rest against the Dallas Mavericks, and he has since shot 50 percent or better in his last five games. What changed?
“I started wearing contacts,” Curry said late Tuesday after a 116-102 win over the Denver Nuggets, according to Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic. “No, I’m serious.”
Curry has had issues with his eyes for most of his life, a condition called Keratoconus, known in the ophthalmology world as KC — an eye disease in which the cornea, normally a circle, progressively thins and takes on a cone shape.
This distortion gave Curry astigmatism, a type of error in the way the light bends when first entering the eye, failing to distribute light equally into the retina and leading to blurred or distorted vision.
While scientists don't know how it was acquired, it's likely the two-time MVP was born with it.
Yes, Curry, the consummate Christian, was once blind, and he can now see:
“It’s exactly that,” Curry said when asked if he feels like he has new eyes. “It’s like the whole world has opened up.”
Stephen Curry was a 43 percent career shooter with this condition and is well underway to becoming the all-time 3-point king. It's tough to fathom what levels of lethal marksmanship this man can achieve with the world (and the rim) becoming all the more clearer to him now.
