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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Stephen Curry

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My rhetorical analysis is Stephen Curry believes he is the best basketball player in the world. Stephen Curry is currently the reigning MVP of the NBA and he won the NBA Championship the same year. He started right where he left off last season as he is carrying the warriors to potentially have the best record at the end of the season in NBA history while again putting up MVP statistics. Curry is currently having a highlight year and is not being considered the best shooter ever. Curry says that he is the best basketball player in the world. Many sources can defend his statements. One sources is ESPN and the other is Sports Illustrated. The author of the ESPN article about Stephen Curry is by Dave McMenamin. Dave is a Staff Writer and writes …show more content…

After Curry won the MVP obviously he was asked questions like if he thought he was the best player in the world in and in the NBA. Curry responded "In my mind, yes," Curry said when asked by Time magazine, in an interview published Wednesday, whether he was the best player in the world. "That's how I have confidence out there that I can play at a high level every night." From this article you can tell he knows that he is the best and that he believe it. In the ESPN article Dave talks says via stats that current leader in PER, plus-minus and points per game. These are huge statistics and are going to help him win his second NBA MVP and most likely another NBA champion because he’s become impossible to guard and his team is as well. What the authors are trying to accomplish is to show that Curry is indeed the best there in the world and that Curry himself believes that he is the best as …show more content…

The audience will agree with the article and Curry’s opinion because it’s true. His current team’s record, his MVP last year, and his current stats defend it. The relationship between the reader and the author is that the reader can be any person that watches the news. Like I said before Curry is all over the news and has become the face of the NBA. NBA fans, sports fans, normal people are all reading or watching Curry. You don’t have to be a NBA fan or even a sports fan to read the article or agree with Curry’s opinion. The influencing factors surrounding the current event is that NBA is becoming very popular and Curry becoming the face of the NBA. The visual artifact of Curry being the best player in the world is off YouTube. The videos show proof that Curry has indeed become the face of the NBA and is the best in the world. This changes everyone’s view because you go from trusting stats and the Curry’s opinion to seeing both them come together. The videos makes you say “wow!” because what you are shocked and surprised to see what he is actually capable of doing from reading it on paper or a screen to seeing it live or in a recorded video of him in

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