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Stephen Curry named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year

Why did Sports Illustrated magazine produce a “fake” video of Stephen Curry chaining five baskets at the other end of the field? We could ask ourselves the question, but the answer is now there: because the famous American sports magazine has designated the leader of the Warriors as “Sportsman of the Year”!

The prize has been awarded since 1954 and rewards more and more basketball players. While only six personalities linked to basketball had received this trophy (sometimes shared) in fifty years (Jerry Lucas, Bill Russell, John Wooden, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan and Dean Smith), they are thus eight to have won it since 2003.

There are David Robinson and Tim Duncan (2003), Dwyane Wade (2006), Mike Krzyzewski and Pat Summitt (2011), LeBron James (2012, 2016 and 2020) and Breanna Stewart (2020). In 2018, Sports Illustrated named the entire Warriors, who had just won three titles in four years. Technically, this is Stephen Curry’s second trophy, joining LeBron James, Tom Brady and Tiger Woods among the multiple recipients.

Obviously, the choice of Stephen Curry for this year 2022 is first linked to his fourth NBA title, accompanied by his first Finals MPV trophy. But Sports Illustrated explains that the leader is also honored for having validated his diploma at the university of Davidson, as well as for his work with his association, “Eat.Learn.Play.” which has distributed more than 25 million meals to children from disadvantaged backgrounds since 2019, and which has spent $2.5 million to support literacy, distributing 500,000 books.

Stephen Curry Percentage Bounces
Season Crew GM Minimum Shots 3 points LF Off Def Early pd party Int bp CT Points
2009-10 GOS 80 36 46.2 43.7 88.5 0.6 3.9 4.5 5.9 3.2 1.9 3.0 0.2 17.5
2010-11 GOS 74 34 48.0 44.2 93.4 0.7 3.2 3.9 5.8 3.2 1.5 3.1 0.3 18.6
2011-12 GOS 26 28 49.0 45.5 80.9 0.6 2.8 3.4 5.3 2.4 1.5 2.5 0.3 14.7
2012-13 GOS 78 38 45.1 45.3 90.0 0.8 3.3 4.0 6.9 2.5 1.6 3.1 0.2 22.9
2013-14 GOS 78 37 47.1 42.4 88.5 0.6 3.7 4.3 8.5 2.5 1.6 3.8 0.2 24.0
2014-15 GOS 80 33 48.7 44.3 91.4 0.7 3.6 4.3 7.7 2.0 2.0 3.1 0.2 23.8
2015-16 GOS 79 34 50.4 45.4 90.8 0.9 4.6 5.4 6.7 2.0 2.1 3.3 0.2 30.1
2016-17 GOS 79 33 46.8 41.1 89.8 0.8 3.7 4.5 6.6 2.3 1.8 3.0 0.2 25.3
2017-18 GOS 51 32 49.5 42.3 92.1 0.7 4.4 5.1 6.1 2.2 1.6 3.0 0.2 26.4
2018-19 GOS 69 34 47.2 43.7 91.6 0.7 4.7 5.4 5.2 2.4 1.3 2.8 0.4 27.3
2019-20 GOS 5 28 40.2 24.5 100.0 0.8 4.4 5.2 6.6 2.2 1.0 3.2 0.4 20.8
2020-21 GOS 63 34 48.2 42.1 91.6 0.5 5.0 5.5 5.8 1.9 1.2 3.4 0.1 32.0
2021-22 GOS 64 35 43.7 38.0 92.3 0.5 4.7 5.2 6.3 2.0 1.3 3.2 0.4 25.5
2022-23 GOS 22 35 51.1 44.1 90.3 0.6 6.2 6.7 7.1 2.1 1.1 3.1 0.3 30.8
Total 848 34 47.5 42.8 90.8 0.7 4.0 4.7 6.5 2.4 1.6 3.2 0.2 24.5

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