5 best athletes for the week 2nd May - 10 May

Every week, we profile 5 athletes across sports whose performances in the week have stood out as superlative.

 

Stephen Curry

He is the reigning NBA MVP, and the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry has proved exactly why he deserves that title. Out for a number of matches with a serious knee sprain, Curry came back in the Warriors’ game against home side Portland Trail Blazers, a match that went down to the wire.

In the end, with the match going into overtime as each team attempted to wrest the lead from each other in the dying moments of the game, Curry scored 40 points, 17 of those in overtime, to take his team to an eventual victory.

If reports are to be believed, Curry is on the verge of taking his second MVP title in a row, and today showed why he merits it.