Kurtenbach: The incredible Steph Curry still deserves gold-medal treatment

The United States men’s basketball team will be playing for a gold medal on Saturday because of Steph Curry.

Sure, other great players helped the US escape an upset by Serbia on Thursday, but no one was greater than the Golden State Warriors star, who scored 36 points in a performance that is being rightly heralded as one of finest individual performances in Team USA history. (If it’s not the finest.)

For Curry, a gold medal, his first, would augment an already peerless career resume.