Draymond Green Makes Stunning Revelation About Stephen Curry’s Irreversible Eye Condition

Stephen Curry told People magazine he'd been diagnosed with keratoconus. A rare and potentially irreversible eye condition that quietly affected his vision throughout Golden State's championship dynasty. Teammate Draymond Green gave details from an even closer perspective.

On his own show, Green revealed he was there from the very beginning. Back when Curry first got fitted for the contact lenses that let him keep playing through blurred vision most fans never noticed. He explained that he actually became something of a mentor to Curry on the issue, since he'd already been wearing contacts himself when Curry's diagnosis came down.

“So, I actually remember this. ... because at that time I wore contacts and I remember him coming to me like, “Yo, I gotta go get my eyes checked.” Then he’s like, “Yo, I got to wear these contacts now,” Green said.

"And at first it was a fight be between like um him and the training staff to like put these contacts in. … Steph’s coming to me. He like, “Yo, these contacts, man, it’s weird. How do you put them in? You got any way to put any easier way to put them in?” And all these things. I’m like, “Yeah, you know.” ... So then it got to a point to where he’d wear them sometime and not wear them some."

Steph Curry spoke about just how serious that condition actually was. And how long he played through it without realizing it. "Bob Myers texted me after the game because apparently the telecast kept showing me when I was on the bench, and he was like, 'You're just squinting, looking like you couldn't see anything... You should probably go get that checked out,'" Curry recalled.

What followed was a diagnosis Curry never saw coming. "They told me that I had a rare condition called Keratoconus," he said. "What I found out about it was it's a progressive condition that can deteriorate your vision over time, and it's irreversible if it goes in the wrong direction."

Keratoconus doesn't just blur sight temporarily. If left unmanaged, it can permanently worsen, and by the time Myers flagged the squinting, Curry had already spent years without knowing there was a medical explanation behind his distorted vision.

The Baby-Faced Assassin had already won two championships and was an MVP by the time the condition was caught in 2018. Meaning that some of the most iconic shooting seasons in NBA history happened while Curry was unknowingly playing with bad eyesight.

Specialized contact lenses eventually corrected much of the distortion. But the years beforehand raised real questions about how much sharper his numbers might have looked with clear vision from the start.