LeBron Reigns Quarter Century, Curry Is Best Shooter

Bleacher Report assembled All Quarter Century teams covering 2000-01 through 2024-25, crowning LeBron James as the era's best player and naming Stephen Curry the clear best shooter. The staff also handed specialty honors like Vince Carter as best dunker and Gregg Popovich as top coach. Their write up even said "it'd be hard to volunteer anyone but Stephen Curry with a straight face." Merlin sees an era remade by spacing and versatility. LeBron and Nikola Jokić show how playmaking and scoring can coexist at an elite level, while Curry rewrote the math on shooting with volume and efficiency that added nearly 1,879 extra points versus average. The list reads like a map of how roles, coaching and shot selection changed the game for a quarter century.