Steph Curry spoke publicly today about the eye condition he has been living with. It is called keratoconus. The cornea, the clear dome at the front of your eye, thins out and slowly bulges into a cone shape. Vision goes blurry and distorted. Light hurts. Prescriptions stop working because the shape keeps changing. Left alone, it can take your sight for good. He was diagnosed in 2018. He was 30 years old. Which means he had it for the first half of his NBA career and had no idea. Here is what he did during the part where he could not see clearly. 2015, MVP. 2016, the only unanimous MVP in the history of the league, on a team that went 73-9, in a season where he made 402 three pointers, a record nobody has come close to. Three championships. All of it through a cornea that was quietly deforming. "I was compensating so much to get around that blurred vision." He did not go get checked. For years. "It's part of my stubbornness in why it took so long to actually get screened." What finally did it was a text message. Bob Myers, his own general manager, was watching a Warriors game on television and kept seeing Curry on the bench in the camera shot. "The camera was on you for most of the time when you were on the bench and do you know how much you squint?" He got screened. They fit him with specialized contacts. Then he put them in. "Once I got to actually see what the world looked like, it was kind of an odd moment. But also kind of scary at the same time knowing that had I not gotten that text from Bob Myers or had I not had access to go get screened, there's a potential for it to go the wrong way." For about two weeks afterward he could not stop noticing things. Dust floating in a room. Details he had been walking past his whole life. He gets his eyes checked every six months now. It is stable. And he is talking about it because he does not want anybody else to wait as long as he did. He has a campaign called Could It Be KC, and he wrote a children's book about it called Eye on the Ball. The greatest shooter who has ever lived spent half his career unable to see the rim clearly, and the only reason he can see it now is that somebody watching him on TV cared enough to send a text. For more stories like this, follow us on any platform @thesportsontap