Steph Curry is one of the most influential players in the game right now, inspiring thousands of people across the world with his incredible ability on the court.
However, not many people know that the Golden State Warriors superstar is also playing with a disability – an eye disease that the 32 year old has struggled with in his whole life.
Curry has a cornea condition called Keratoconus, a disease from which Curry has reportedly suffered all his life.
The condition is a disease where the cornea of the eye things over time and changes from its natural circular shape to one that is similar to a cone.
As a result, the cone shape deflects light as it enters the eye, causing blurry vision and less than optimal eyesight. It was in early 2019 that Curry first addressed the issue after the renowned sharpshooter saw a stark decline in his shooting form from outside the arc.
Curry who is known across the world for his excellent shooting ability, saw a decline in his shooting that prompted him to go for corrective lenses in order to combat the problem and it helped the Akron native.
Speaking in 2019, Curry said: “I started wearing contacts and it is like the entire world just opened up.”
Before adopting the lenses, the four-time NBA champion saw a decline in his three-point shooting during the month of February 2019, Curry made only 51 of 135 three point attempts (.378%), but his numbers shot to .433% after getting lenses (56 out of 109 attempts).
Since 2019, Curry has played with his lenses on and has kept on with his incredible shooting form.
His shooting ability has not been compromised since he got corrective lenses in early 2019, and despite losing in the NBA Finals in 2019 he reclaimed the NBA Championship earlier this year.
However, even though the lenses have fixed his short-term problem, his condition will progressively get worse as his cornea thins over the years, and it will not be long before he might need corneal transplant surgery.