Contact lenses put basketball star Curry on a hot streak

Basketball superstar Stephen Curry has attributed a recent hot shooting streak to the adoption of contact lenses.

‘I started wearing contacts,’ Curry told The Athletic sports website. ‘It’s like the whole world has opened up. I had gotten so used to squinting for so long. It was just normal.’

The three-time NBA champion, widely regarded as the best three point shooter in the history of the sport, suffers from progressive eye disease keratoconus. The condition causes the normally round cornea to thin and bulge into a cone-like shape, leading to distorted vision as it impairs the ability of the eye to focus light correctly.