This is an interesting concept.

A writer who is perhaps Australian, now in New York, who appears to have done mostly business writing over the past few years … has attempted to explain the Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry to readers of The Guardian, one of Britain’s quality newspapers.

The piece has some nice points, and fits into the preferred British style of “every paragraph must be at least 100 words long” and “the author is the final authority on whatever he happens to be writing about”.

However, the author puts forward some impressions of Curry that don’t seem to jibe with the image closer observers of the player have of Golden State’s golden child.

To wit:

–The author stumbles into the “proving others wrong” trope, which is, of course, almost universally applicable, if only fractionally in most cases. The point being, has anyone ever dismissed Curry as a potentially excellent player, back in the day? Who is out there talking him down, or was, back when he had the ankle problems (seemingly now a thing of the past)? It isn’t as if he snuck into the league through the children’s entrance; he was the seventh pick in the 2009 draft, and got plenty of attention while at Davidson.

The author calls Curry “the high priest of wimp revenge”. But the “take that!” aspect of his game is pretty much absent. We can agree he is an artist, but he delights in his own art, rather than diminishing that of his competitors.

–Few would suggest Curry is somehow a dark or intimidating character, but the author perhaps goes too far in underplaying his physicality. Curry is not a big guy, but neither is he some willowy seventh grader yearning for the arrival of puberty.

The author writes: “There’s something slightly nerdy about Curry: The wiry frame, the easy mastery of proper syntax when talking, the not-quite goatee, less a fully formed beard than a wispy, pubescent statement of aspirational manhood.”

It is interesting that The Guardian is willing to post so many words on a player from a league (and a sport) not followed at all closely in Britain.

It would demonstrate that the NBA might be gaining a bit of a toehold in that country, and also reinforces just how sensational a season Curry is having — he is scoring more than 30 points per game and his team is 55-5 and headed for the best season in NBA history.

Have a look. See how others see him.