The Stephen Curry Revolution is happening every game, but not just in arenas and not measured only by the NBA standings or record book.

This is a night-by-night worldwide sports epiphany, witnessed by everybody great or small who can’t resist tuning into the greatest show of our time.

“To me, my hero, other than Michael Jordan, growing up was Isiah Thomas,” said two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash.

“But in some ways, I wish I was a 13-year-old starting to play basketball for the first time so I could grow up watching (Curry) play and emulating him. That’d be pretty powerful.

“You know, I hope my (6-year-old) son likes basketball.”

That’s the unique power of what Curry is doing these days with the 20-0 Warriors — it’s far beyond his team affiliation or the normal demographics of this sport.

He’s NBA Elvis. Today’s Jesse Owens. He’s the new thing that blows away all existing limits and boundaries.

So yes, the victories are important. Last season’s championship and Curry’s MVP award were crowning milestones, no doubt.

And Curry’s poise and grace throughout it all — his connection to his teammates, coaches and fans — serve as the largest exclamation points to his ascension.

But as a cultural barometer, the specific Curry Moments — most recently, his incredible 28-point third-quarter performance Wednesday in Charlotte — are essentially stand-alone landmarks.

We watch. He plays. The night turns electric.

Brent Barry, a 14-year NBA veteran and now a national TV analyst, says his 9-year-old son asks him one thing every afternoon: “Is Steph playing tonight?” And on Wednesday they were another witness for Curry.

“He won’t miss games,” Barry said of his son, “just like Steph won’t miss shots.”

The NBA, of course, is not lacking for immense, compelling talents — starting with LeBron James and continuing through Kevin Durant, Tim Duncan, Russell Westbrook, Draymond Green and James Harden, among others.

But there is something different about Curry right now, in his prime (27, in his seventh NBA season) and accelerating his game well past even last season’s MVP dominance.

As future Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett suggested a few weeks ago, Curry is treading upon sacred NBA territory — where only Michael Jordan recently has tread.

With Curry and the Warriors at the forefront, lethal long-distance shooting has become basketball’s most potent force, and Curry proves it every game. “Like Michael Jordan was a whole other thing, this guy is his own thing,” Garnett told reporters Nov. 12. “It’s beautiful for basketball.”

Curry, who scored 40 points in only 30 minutes on Wednesday, now has six games of 40 points or more this season. The last player to do that in his team’s first 20 games: Jordan in 1986.

But this is not close to the same thing, because Jordan and Curry represent different levels of NBA invincibility.

In his prime, Jordan attacked the rim and defied gravity; Curry seems to exist in a dimension without it.

He just calmly places himself and the basketball wherever he wants while all other players whirl and tumble haphazardly around him.

NBA legend Jerry West, a Warriors executive, said the most notable part of Curry’s career track is that he works so hard in the off-season and keeps taking enormous strides.

“I think he’s going to create a new kind of player to be honest with you,” West said. “I think before it’s all said and done, here’s a guy that’s going to make his own place in history in a completely different manner than these other players have done.”

In just the past two seasons, Curry, who is right-handed, has developed such a great touch driving and shooting with his left hand that West says he sometimes teases Curry that he probably can’t actually use his right hand.

With the possible exception of Pete Maravich’s star-crossed career, the sport has never had such a pure shooter who can also weave through defenders to finish or flick the ball to open teammates.

And Curry is doing it better and certainly more consistently than Maravich ever did.

This isn’t just about numbers, but the numbers are stunning: Curry made eight three-pointers Wednesday, giving him 102 for the season — more than Larry Bird ever made in one season — in only 20 games.

Curry is averaging more than five three-point baskets per game, putting him on pace to destroy the regular-season record for threes (286), which he set last season.

Curry leads the league in scoring, plus-minus, true shooting percentage, PER … and you don’t have to know what all those stats mean except that this is a season for the ages and a career that will end up next to the immortals.

“I wouldn’t compare him to Michael Jordan,” said Nash, who retired last season and now serves as a consultant to the Warriors. “But I would say Steph is turning into a historical category of his own, in a way.

“He’s in the prime of his career and will be for a few years, and the way he’s improving and the level he’s playing at is … I think he’s unlike anyone else. His ability to make shots and still handle the play-making duties is historic.

“I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a player more skilled than him in the history of the game.”

Yes, Curry’s teammates realize they’re playing alongside somebody who is creating history every game.

Even more, they understand that Curry is the perfect person to do this and handle it all — for example, Curry only started shooting this often when he realized it was the best thing for the team.

“It’s self-evident,” said Warriors forward Andre Iguodala. “He’s just in his … kind of his own world.

“Things are good when you are who you think you are. And he is that. He’s starting to know ‘That’s who I am.’ And when you’re playing with that much confidence, you have that talent and you work that hard, it’s going to happen for you.”

So has Curry changed the game?

“Yeah, for good and for bad,” Iguodala said, possibly envisioning a future in which everyone is firing up shots outside their range.

Curry’s game is definitely not difficult to embrace or to try to copy — everybody can shoot or dribble a ball.

“It seems to be a lot more accessible to the average fan or the hoop head or the gym rat,” Barry said of Curry’s game. “It isn’t Steph jumping over two people on a fast break and hammering home dunks. It isn’t a physical domination on the post.”

You can imagine the result: Just as Jordan’s career produced thousands of players trying to dunk every time they touched the ball, Curry’s highlight reel could create legions of three-point shooters who can’t actually shoot.

Recreation leagues, AAU games, college games and even the NBA might be full of long-heave chaos for a while, starring multitudes of Curry wannabes who can’t and shouldn’t try to be Curry.

But, as Nash suggests, if you look at the beauty and complexity of Curry’s game, maybe that wouldn’t be so bad.

It’s an evolution, and Curry is the latest Big Bang.

“The game’s evolving … and it’s a beautiful thing because it’s about skill and dedication, commitment and inspiring a whole generation,” Nash said.

“It’s awesome to see. And I think it’ll be fascinating to see what the next evolution will be because of Steph.”

Nobody knows what that will be, nobody knows when that will happen.

What we know is that Curry, right here and now, is the greatest sports happening of this generation and one of the most important of all generations.

Read Tim Kawakami’s Talking Points blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami. Contact him at tkawakami@mercurynews.com or 408-920-5442. Follow him at Twitter.com/timkawakami.