Over the course of Stephen Curry's 17-year career he's played with and against some of the best basketball players in NBA history. Coupled with Curry's illustrious Hall of Fame career, he's surely a great judge of giving his opinion on some basketball debates everyone likes to converse about.

In a recent interview with Complex magazine, Stephen Curry hailed LeBron James and Chris Paul as two of the smartest basketball players he had ever seen.

The elder James and Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry have developed a friendship over the years, and it allowed Curry to get a look at the younger James when the latter was a toddler. Curry recently remarked that he saw something special in the younger James even back then (h/t Lakers Daily ).