Stephen Curry popcorn rankings: How Warriors star rated every team in the NBA, from Mavericks to Lakers

The greatest shooter in NBA history has a popcorn addiction.

A self-proclaimed popcorn addict, you might know by now that Warriors star Stephen Curry often indulges in the salt-and-buttery snack. What you might not be aware of is just how much of it he eats.

Curry told The New York Times in 2019 that when he walks into the locker room before a game, he heads straight to the popcorn table after he's put his stuff down. "If it's really good," Curry said, "I'm eating it before the game, at halftime and after."

Klay Thompson, who has been teammates with Curry for over a decade, has called his Splash Brother a "popcorn snob." Curry once admitted that if the popcorn is bad on the road, "it affects my mood."

If all of that wasn't enough, Curry once went through the exercise of ranking every arena in the NBA based on the quality of its popcorn.

Stephen Curry popcorn rankings

In 2019, NBA insider Marc Stein, who was with The New York Times, asked Curry to rank the popcorn at each arena in the league.

Curry ranked the popcorn based on freshness, saltiness, crunchiness, butter and presentation. He gave up to five points for each category and the combined total determined where each arena landed in the rankings.

The American Airlines Center, home of the Mavericks, earned the No. 1 spot with a near-perfect score of 24. The Barclays Center (Nets), American Airlines Arena (then home of the Heat), Moda Center (Trail Blazers) and Golden 1 Center (Kings) rounded out the top five.

The arena in last place was the Staples Center, which is now Crypto.com Arena. Based on Curry's scoring, the home of the Lakers and Clippers has the salt and butter ratio way off.

Here are Curry's popcorn rankings, which include each team's arena at the time:

Curry's list was slightly different a year prior when he was asked which arenas had the best and worst popcorn by Jalen Rose, who was with ESPN at the time.

"The best right now is probably Miami," Curry said. "It always comes fresh and hot, salty, a little bit of butter. The worst is probably Philly right now. That's no knock on the city.

"I might have to come out with my season-ending power rankings so I can set it in stone, whose got the best and whose got the worst."

More recently, Curry was asked about his 2019 rankings while on the popular YouTube show "Hot Ones."

"It was kind of exactly what I expected in terms of the arenas that I know where I look forward to playing in those arenas, not just because of the environment, but because of the popcorn. But I'm not lying, when [that article] came out, the next year, everybody dialed their game up. It was impressive.

"So I want every NBA player to thank me for the popcorn that's going around the league right now."