Golden State Warriors star point guard Stephen Curry is the greatest shooter of all time and one of the best to ever play the game, but that all could have been different had his career become consumed by ankle injuries which seemed like a distinct possibility.
Appearing on Steve Nash and LeBron James' Mind the Game podcast, Curry opened up about the ankle injuries he had to deal with earlier in his career.
Stephen Curry has revealed just how severe his ankle injuries were
Curry spoke about the first surgery he had on his ankle which occurred after his second NBA season, noting that he was rehabbing at home in Charlotte and struggling to get his ankle back to a place where he could trust it:
"To the point where I wasn't even rolling my ankle like landing on somebody, I was doing one where I was catching it in transition and I'm pushing off and that thing would flip and I'd look back like.