Oklahoma City Thunder

'Sport Science' helps you appreciate the absurdity of Steph Curry's game-winner

Published Mar. 1, 2016 2:31 p.m. ET

Micah Peters

If you somehow missed it over the weekend, Steph Curry -- in a hotly contested game against the Oklahoma City Thunder -- took two steps across the halfway line and flushed a very casual 32-footer to ice the game in overtime. There was plenty of ALL CAPS GIBBERISH trickling down timelines and a lot of yelling on TV about it, but being that Curry does stuff that makes us forget how to properly use our words on a bi-weekly basis, it's easy to take these mini religious experiences for granted.

But that's OK, because ESPN's Sports Science is here to help you fully appreciate the absurdity of what we saw on Saturday night.

If Curry would've walked that jumper in just 10 feet, the margin of error would've shrunk by 26 percent. Because he hoisted the thing from YOLO range his release had to absolutely perfect -- an eighth of an inch to the left or right would've meant missing the hoop by a whole foot. All of this compounded by the fact that he was shooting over the outstretched hands of Andre Roberson, who's got four inches on Curry.

That 32-footer was also his 12th make of the game from beyond the arc. Watch all of them here, and then give thanks to whatever higher power you believe in that we get to watch this man play basketball.