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VIDEO: The Steph-Back Jumper in Phantom Cam

David Banks / USA Today Sports

There are few moves in basketball as beautiful as Steph Curry's crossover and step-back jumper combination. A fluid blend of precision and artistry, Curry's patented Steph-Back J is nearly unguardable.

Marcelinho Huertas - perhaps the best guard in the world not in the NBA - got an up-close look at Curry's poetry in motion Saturday night as USA Basketball played Brazil in an exhibition contest. The NBA caught the move via the slow-motion Phantom Cam, and so we can appreciate it detail by detail.

Watch below as Curry first goes left-to-right behind his back to free himself some space, then stops on a dime to use Huertas' momentum against him before crossing back to his left hand. That's freed up enough space for Curry to fire off perhaps the most picture-perfect jumper this side of Ray Allen.

And then you look at him, and say 'what?'

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