There was a Stephen Curry in the NBA long before Steph came in, that’s how Jalen Rose remembers his former teammate now.
Stephen Curry is one of the most beloved athletes in the United States and around the world. The man who is reportedly set to sign a mind-blowing $1 billion deal with Under Armor has rightly done so by proving his worth to the world.
The 6-foot-2, 34-year-old Akron, Ohio-born point guard has proven himself to be one of the greatest PGs in the history of the game. The 4x NBA Champion is primarily responsible for revolutionizing the way the game is played in this era.
His finesse dribbling the ball, the movement off of it, his accuracy from the 3-point line, all of these things make him the unstoppable force that he is.
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That race is rare, and even when you look back at the history of the game, no one person could do it all. But Jalen Rose remembers a person from his days in Denver, that he could do some of that, and he was a lot like Steph in his timing.
Jalen Rose thinks Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf looked a lot like Stephen Curry
In his appearance on the All The Smoke podcast with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, Rose talked about watching and alongside Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf he felt the same way when he watches Curry play now.
Looking back at the 6-foot-1 LSU guard’s 9-year NBA career, where he averaged around 15 points, 3 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, that doesn’t come close to Curry’s career stat of 24p-4.6 r-6.5a in 13 years.
But unlike Curry, Rauf’s career was filled with a few deviations and a lot of controversy leading up to them. The man chose not to stand at the National Anthem before NBA games because he believed the American flag was a symbol of tyranny for more than two centuries.
Since then, the player who improved the most in the 1993 season never had much success and began to get less playing time. He took his talent elsewhere in 1998 and played around the world and even won a Russian Cup in 2004.
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