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Steph Curry is the biggest star in the NBA at the moment, and no one else seems to be able to exist in the same planet. Our US sportswriter Alex Ferguson looks at Currys season and examines how he and the Warriors are changing the game… Its another three-point shot from Steph Curry, this time from nearer the halfway line than the three-point shot. The game is won in overtime, and the Golden State Warriors are one game closer to beating the 1995/96 Chicago Bulls single season record of 72-10 a record they have gone on break losing only lost nine games this season….and winning at astonishing 73 of them. They qualified for the play-offs in March, and quite frankly look unstoppable.Steph Currys season has been unbelievable, smashing more records than a Who concert in the 1970s. He has broken his own NBA record for three-pointers in a season…he actually broke it with 24 games to go. He was aiming for 300, and he ended up with 402......402 successful three-point shots this season. Curry seems to have mastered the art of three-point shooting - and made it trendy Curry is really good at getting the ball away at the other end too - he finished the season with 169 steals, the most in the league.The great thing for Curry is, despite leading the league in points per game average (30.1), he is also an unselfish player playing on a very unselfish team. He is eighth in the league in assists (his Warriors team-mate Draymond Green is seventh). Curry celebrates his spectacular, record breaking three-point matchwinner The Golden State Warriors love passing the ball to each other - they total 28.9 assists a game (first in the NBA), and they love drilling the ball from the three-point line, hitting 41.6 per cent of their shots from behind the arc. The other shooter on the team - Klay Thompson - is No 12 in NBA scoring average to Currys first.Oh, and the team plays defence - they lead the league in defensive rebounds per game average (36.2), led by Green, and have strong shot blockers too, most notably Andrew Bogut.But is Curry better than Jordan? The answer? We dont know. Curry is now drawing comparisons with Michael Jordan - but such comparisons are unfair given they are very different players They are different players. Jordan wasnt Currys 6ft 3in (he was 6ft 6in) and he was a great defensive player as well as an offensive juggernaut. Curry is good at stealing the ball but hes not a rebounder. Unlike Curry, Jordan wasnt a brilliant three-point shooter (.332), but like Curry, he was the player that you want to have the ball in his hands when the game was on the line. And like Curry, Jordan was absolutely unstoppable.Like the dunk fashion that swept the courts in the 1990s, more and more people are worshipping the guy who can score from anywhere. You know, be like Steph and all that.Jordan was a bigger moneymaker outside of the court, but look for Curry to drop some jaws in the 2016 off-season. Curry led his team to the NBA Championship last season The great thing about Curry is that hes changing the game. The three-point shot, which was never as cool as the dunk going back through the years, is suddenly hugely fashionable. Its been a record year for three-point attempts in the NBA (24.0 per game vs the previous record of 22.4 in 2015). Curry is making the change.Why? Because if Curry and the Warriors are shooting so well from three-point range, a game can be finished by the end of the third quarter. Other teams need to shoot well to go head-to-head with the Warriors. Thats why youve got almost half the league chucking up over 25 three-point attempts a game. They are just trying to keep up.Otherwise, we wont just be celebrating Currys Warriors, well be celebrating one of the shortest play-off series in the history of the game. Also See: NFL Video Rookies guide NFL on Sky Sports Pundits Nike Vapormax Naiset . Meanwhile, there were huge victories for Sunderland and West Ham over fellow relegation rivals, leaving the battle to avoid the drop up for grabs with the bottom 11 teams separated by just six points. Eden Hazard and Fernando Torres scored second-half goals to seal a fourth straight victory for Chelsea, which climbed above Arsenal and Manchester City in the standings ahead of their games on Monday and Sunday respectively. 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Scuderia Ferrari put an end to a chunk of the driver market speculation in Silverstone on Friday morning when the prancing horse confirmed that Kimi Raikkonen would be staying on at Maranello for the 2017 F1 season.Given that Ferrari traditionally leave their driver announcements until their home race of Monza, in September, the British GP news was received with surprise and curiosity. During the post-session team personnel press conference on Friday afternoon, Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene explained the psychology behind confirming Kimi two months earlier than anyone anticipated.Our main interest, our issue, was not related to the driver, Arrivabene said. We were very proud and very happy about the work of Kimi since the beginning of the season. He was asked to show his commitment, his results so he deserved the confirmation for next year. Then I was talking about the fact that we needed a kind of good atmosphere in the team and the drivers could help to keep this atmosphere.Due to the fact that the team is still quite new and we need to keep the same commitment for everybody without inserting into the team elements that they can disturb or something new that could break this balance. Having said so, I also said that we confirm Kimi not very soon, because we are in July.Normally the tradition of Ferrari was to do a press release in Monza. We are a new team, we have changed the tradition and we are confirming now because I think we would like to be, as I said, focused and concentrated on car development and not about confirmation or non-confirmation of the drivers. So its a message of stability.The message of stability was designed not only to reassure tifosi and Ferrari management alike, but also to provide Raikkonen with the sort of stability that would allow the Finn to focus on his performance behind the wheel, and not his performance in press conferences and media sessions, which have echoed with variations on contract extensiion questions since before the first 2016 car was unveiled in Barcelona in February.ddddddddddddRelating to the pressure, you know better than me that in the last three or four races every time that Kimi was sitting in a press conference somebody would ask what about his contract, what about your contract?, Arrivabene explained. I asked many many times for a bit of respect for a driver that was a world champion with Ferrari.I know that his nickname is Iceman but hes a human being. Sometimes in Formula One we need to be conscious that we are talking, not with cars because actually the computer talks with the car but the cars are driven by human beings so even Iceman is a human being with his emotions and I think he could feel the pressure. Thats it.One point of interest to arise from Arrivabenes comments was that Ferrari not only sees itself as a quite new team following the chaotic period of management changes seen in 2014, but that this new Ferrari is one concerned with protecting its workforce, reducing pressure where possible to improve performance. This represents a dramatic turnaround from the days during which errors could not be tolerated, with numerous staffers hired and fired for making simple (yet costly, in championship terms) mistakes.One lesson learned from Ferraris first post-Schumacher decade has been that a culture of fear of failure quickly becomes a culture of quagmire, with staffers so afraid of messing up that they cease to try anything different, anything left-field, anything on that border between madness and genius that is often the source of the greatest gains.Kimi Raikkonen is currently the most high-profile beneficiary of the new corporate attitude in Maranello, but the trickle-down effect is already being felt elsewhere in the race team. Sooner or later, it will make itself shown on track. ' ' '