Steph Curry believes he’s the best basketball player in the world (Ball Don’t Lie)

In the summer of 2014, Stephen Curry raised quite a number of eyebrows by responding to a question in a radio interview by proclaiming himself a better offensive player than four-time NBA Most Valuable Player and two-time NBA champion LeBron James. Now, after winning an MVP and a title of his own, leading his Golden State Warriors to the best start to a season in NBA history, and doing so while playing a bombs-away brand of ball that is somehow both unbelievably audacious and entirely reasonable given his skill-set, Steph's dropping the qualifiers and the comparisons ... and nobody's really batting an eye. [ Don't miss Yahoo's NBA free roll on Christmas. Join our $25K Stocking Stuffer Contest ] From an interview with Sean Gregory of TIME : Are you the best player in the world right now? In my mind, yes. That's how I have confidence out there that I can play at a high level every night. I don't get into debates, arguing with people about why I am versus somebody else. I feel like anybody who's at the level I'm trying to be at, if you don't think that when you're on the floor, then you're doing yourself a disservice. [...] If there's one thing people can expect from you in the...