Draymond GreenForward, Golden State Warriors

How Steph Curry Could Shoot Blind: Draymond Green on Curry’s Eye Condition

27 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this candid monologue, Draymond Green reflects on a period when both he and Steph Curry wore contact lenses, recounting humorous moments with teammate Andrew Bogut's eye‑care routine. Green explains how Curry's fluctuating vision—sometimes clear, sometimes blurred—required him to adapt his shooting approach. Curry emphasizes that at the final moment of a shot he only needs to “catch the front of the rim,” relying on muscle memory rather than precise visual tracking. Green uses this anecdote to illustrate Curry's extraordinary shooting consistency, the role of vision variability, and the team's light‑hearted banter about eye conditions.

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When I'm done, my memoirs should be called The Whole Time I Couldn't See. I actually remember this because at that time I wore contacts. And I remember him coming to me like, yo, gotta go get my eyes checked. And then he's like, yo, I gotta wear these contacts now. He and I used to always laugh at Andrew Bogut 'cause Andrew Bogut had some eye condition. Bogut would put his thing and then he'd just squirt like eye solution. He'd just stand at the scorer's table and like douse his eye with eye solution. So me and Steph used to always laugh like we're dousing our eye. With contact solution. Now ironically, I wore contacts at the time and I started dousing my eye because once I did it, I'm like, yo, these contacts feel way better. So then it got to a point to where he'd wear them sometime and not wear them some— and it's like, now you have to recalculate when you can see and when you can't see. It's crazy because what that showed me is actually why he's a great shooter. He said, when I shoot at the last second, I just need to catch the front of the rim. As long as I can catch the front of the rim, I don't care how my body is, where I am. As long as I get my eyes on the front of the rim at the last second, I'm good. It just shows you how much muscle memory it is and how pure the jump shot is that he really can't even see the rim and he can shoot the ball that pure.