As we wrote earlier, the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers may not have even played 50% of their NBA Finals series yet. However, through the first three games, Steph Curry is putting up numbers that would make his performance one of the worst by a regular-season MVP in a Finals or final-game situation.

Here are Curry’s regular-season numbers again his NBA Finals numbers, fully acknowledging that the former category is from a ridiculously small sample size.

• 47% from the field vs. 32% from field

• 44% from three-point vs. 32% from three

• 23.8 points per game vs. 24 points per game

• +/- 16 vs. +/- -6 (negative six)

A glass half-full person would say Curry is averaging slightly more points in the Finals than he did in the regular season or that the star treatment doled out by refs is harder to do when you shoot most shots from 15 feet away. But a rational person would say Curry is averaging more points because he’s shooting the ball so much that some eventually have to go in. Again, this is only three games and with some Curry-like games over the rest of the series, leading to a Golden State win, all of this will be forgotten. But if the Warriors lose, there’s a reasonable chance Steph Curry ends up on this list of worst finals performances by regular-season MVPS. Here’s our rankings, from all sports.

Honorable mention: Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers, 2014 MVP, Playoffs: 0-4, 7.30 ERA over past two playoff years

Kershaw’s Dodgers didn’t make a World Series either of those years and it’s not hard to see why. So even though this is about finals or Super Bowls or World Series only, Kershaw deserves special notice for his playoff stinkers.

Honorable mention: Roger Maris, New York Yankees, 1961 MVP, World Series: .105/.261./.316

Horrible numbers from Maris in the ’61 Series (the same year he broke Babe Ruth’s home run record) are negated for two reasons: The Yankees won and Maris himself had a game-winning homer in the top of the ninth in Game 3. It was his only RBI in the series.

6. Y.A. Tittle, New York Giants, 1963 MVP, 11/29, 147 yards, 1 TD, 5 INT

Yeah, we’re taking it back a bit, but Tittle was horrendous in the ’63 NFL Championship. However, he ranks low on our list because he was playing the Bears feared Monsters of the Midway and, despite his five-pick game, the Giants still held a 10-7 halftime lead and had numerous chances in the second half to either tie or take the lead, including with seconds left before he threw an interception to Richie Petitbone in the end zone. The Giants would lose 14-10.

5. John Elway, Denver Broncos, 1987 MVP, Super Bowl: 14/38, 257 yards, 1 TD, 3 INT

Elway started the game 1-1 with 80 yards and a TD after scoring the then-fastest points in Super Bowl history on Denver’s first play from scrimmage. But it all fell apart after and most of Elway’s other yards came long after Doug Williams led the Washington Redskins to a 35-10 halftime lead.

4. Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos, 2014 MVP, Super Bowl: 34/49, 280 yards, 1 TD, 2 INT

It’s a chicken and egg situation: Did the Broncos lose 43-8 because Manning was so bad or because the Seahawks defense was so good? The image of the ball flying over Manning’s head for an opening safety is the indelible image from that game and most of Manning’s numbers were from garbage time, but it’s harder to fault a football player when there were 21 other people doing just as poorly.

3. Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers, 2010 MVP, .100/.143/.250, 0 2B, 1 HR, 1 RBI

The troubled slugger was great in the ALCS against the Yankees, slugging four home runs and having an insane OPS of 1.536. But it all fell out during a World Series loss.

2. Rich Gannon, Oakland Raiders, 2002 MVP, 24/44, 272 yards, 2 TD, 5 INT

Is it weird that the Raiders made a Super Bowl more recently than the Dallas Cowboys? Is it bizarre that Rich Gannon has an NFL MVP award? Absolutely and absolutely. But it’s not weird that once the Raiders go to that big game, they were terrible, especially Gannon whose five INTs helped a defensive player win MVP for just the fifth time.

1. Thurman Thomas, Buffalo Bills, 1991 MVP, 10 carries 13 yards, 1 TD, 1 lost helmet

Thomas’s big moment is best remembered for his losing of his helmet before the start of the game and having to be replaced on Buffalo’s first series. It only got worse from there, with the MVP barely averaging more than one yard per carry and scoring his TD while he team was down 24-3.

You’ll notice our list was NFL-heavy and NBA and NHL non-existent. The latter reason is that evaluating an NHL’s player’s performance is more difficult, unless you’re a numbers genius, as the game isn’t as numbers driven. But rest assured, if the Washington Capitals ever make it, I’ll keep a spot warm for Alex Ovechkin.

As for the NBA, this might surprise you: Only seven MVPs have played for losing NBA Finals teams. And of those seven (Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Karl Malone, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Bill Russell) none laid an egg in the finals. Perhaps it’s because none was a pure shooter and didn’t rely on a jump shot that can easily go cold. Perhaps it’s because LeBron James is in full beast mode and no one would be paying as much attention to Curry if the Warriors were up 2-1. Or maybe it’s just Curry is having a historically bad NBA Finals from which he’ll never recover. But like we said at the top: There’s still four games (possibly) to go.