Bird is also one of the most romanticized figures in the entire NBA. Particularly around here (no surprising).
If you look at anything approaching evidence, there's an argument in Curry's favor.
I hate to rain on your parade, here, but you do realize that as incredible of a shooter that Bird was in the NBA that he was actually much better in college? Ask Jackie Mac if you don't believe me. He severely injured his right index finger during a game of softball before his rookie year, and to this day it cannot bend straight.
Therefore, given his already ridiculous shooting numbers in spite of that injury, can you imagine what he would have shot, percentage-wise, without it?
Even if you don't take that into account, Bird is the better shooter, but when you factor that in, it's not even an argument.
Curry is a much better ball handler, sure, although people tend to drastically underrate Bird's ability to create his own shot, but that doesn't make him the greatest of all time in said category. Is he an all-time great? Yes, but he's not even the best shooter in the history of his own franchise. Has everyone forgotten about Rick Barry? I hate the guy, personally, but he was incredible. He's not better than Jerry West, Steve Nash, or, as momma there goes that man
has said in comparing Curry to guys from the past, Mark Price, and Price had the ball handling, quickness and speed that Curry could only dream of, and Mark's release was probably the quickest of all time.
Don't forget about Pete Maravich or Joe Dumars, either, and Joe not only had a great handle, but was a fantastic shooter, except, unlike Steph, he could actually guard people, and some of the toughest guys in the league, I might add, and we haven't even gotten to Reggie Miller, Drazen Petrovic, Ray Allen, and Dirk, yet . Curry is certainly among the best shooters of all time, but he's not at the top of the list. At least, imo.