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Diagnosed in 2018, the irregular shape of his cornea left him seeing blurred, distorted images for stretches without a clear explanation.
Stephen Curry says a rare condition called keratoconus quietly altered how he saw the court during Golden State’s title years, and for a while he had no idea anything was wrong. “I didn’t know I was really dealing with crazy blurred vision,” Curry told PEOPLE, describing how he simply built his game around a problem he couldn’t yet name. “Steph hasn’t lost anything,” Carlesimo said, pointing to a roster that still has bite when everyone is healthy.
Stephen Curry has spent his career being underestimated in one specific way, even his own front office didn’t fully grasp it until recently. Behind the four championships and the shooting motion nobody’s figured out how to stop, there was a detail about how he actually processes the game that stayed mostly unknown. Former coach PJ Carlesimo isn’t ready to call this the end of Golden State’s window, either. He argued a fully fit trio of Curry, Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler still gives the Warriors a real shot, brushing off the idea that time has already run out.
