Speaker 1: Dubbed Dynasty as a production of iHeartMedia and the NBA.
Speaker 2: I mean, when you think of point guards growing up,
Speaker 2: I mean just true point guards, of guys bringing up
Speaker 2: the ball, setting up their teammates, running, picking rolls and
Speaker 2: pitting the pocket pass and.
Speaker 3: Things like that.
Speaker 2: Steph was like the first guy to like obviously shoot
Speaker 2: threes the way he does and make the game the
Speaker 2: way we all need to shoot threes now. But I
Speaker 2: mean there's a lot of shooting guards now that are
Speaker 2: looked at point guards because they have the ball in
Speaker 2: their hand now, and Steph was kind of like one
Speaker 2: of the first scoring guards to really be like that.
Speaker 2: So now the game is for ever change. I feel
Speaker 2: like every era has their own separate one, and Steph
Speaker 2: is one of the kings of this era and that
Speaker 2: will never be taken away from him.
Speaker 4: One of the best players of all time, no question,
Speaker 4: and then he'll be slotting away he slotted. I think
Speaker 4: what sticks out to me, because I've watched his entire
Speaker 4: career is the way he's done it with the incredible passion,
Speaker 4: the love of the game, the dedication to work ethic.
Speaker 4: You cannot maintain that type of condition. Shooting accuracy without
Speaker 4: being incredibly dedicated with incredible work ethic. I respect to
Speaker 4: admire that, maybe more.
Speaker 1: So the way he's handled himself as a teammate.
Speaker 4: Incorporating different players throughout his career and bringing him up
Speaker 4: to championship level, making all the teammates around him better
Speaker 4: because of the gravity he attracts from the defense, deferring
Speaker 4: to his teammates.
Speaker 3: You know, a humble superstar.
Speaker 1: Those were two of the greats discussing one of the greatest.
Speaker 1: The first was three time All Star Trey Young, the
Speaker 1: second Hall of Famer Chris Mullen. I'm Israel Gutierre and
Speaker 1: this is dubb Dynasty. Young was regularly compared to Curry
Speaker 1: prior to the twenty eighteen NBA draft, a comp that
Speaker 1: placed some added pressure at the start of his career,
Speaker 1: given that step had already won MVPs and championship to
Speaker 1: that point. Mullen was a warrior great who watched Curry's
Speaker 1: ascent up close. Their praise of Step is effectively echoed universally.
Speaker 1: He's in the discussion for a greatest point guard of
Speaker 1: all time, a top ten or even a top five
Speaker 1: player of all time. He's easily the greatest shooter ever
Speaker 1: and is on the shortlist of players who can say
Speaker 1: without question that they revolutionized the game while they were playing.
Speaker 1: Yet last We Left You, Curry looked like the only
Speaker 1: surviving member on a sinking ship, and despite having three
Speaker 1: titles and two MVPs at the time, Steph was still
Speaker 1: in search of some decoration and validation. Curry still hadn't
Speaker 1: won a Finals MVP to this point, and after winning
Speaker 1: a pair of titles rather easily alongside Durant, there were
Speaker 1: still some lingering questions about whether Curry had proven well
Speaker 1: enough that he can win a championship as the clear
Speaker 1: lead dog. Had the Warriors found a way to come
Speaker 1: back against the Raptors in the twenty nineteen finals, Curry
Speaker 1: likely would have won his first Finals MVP that season,
Speaker 1: given that he averaged thirty points, six assists, and five
Speaker 1: rebounds in those six games.
Speaker 5: They have no business in this game. Shorthanded in every
Speaker 5: excuse to quit, but they refuse.
Speaker 1: Curry gets his side, what's up.
Speaker 6: And Mike, they went back to demand the man on
Speaker 6: that possession, Curry got some space and.
Speaker 1: Was able to finish instead. The twenty nineteen season ended
Speaker 1: with Curry looking as far away from a championship, as
Speaker 1: he'd been in some time. Klay Thompson would clearly miss
Speaker 1: the following season with a torn acl Kevin Durant would
Speaker 1: also miss the next season with a torn achilles, and
Speaker 1: his free agency decision lingered. What seemed quite evident is
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen twenty twenty season would be a hard
Speaker 1: reset for Golden State. What level of reset would depend
Speaker 1: on Durant's and after that spat with Green at the
Speaker 1: start of the eighteen nineteen season, most believed Durant would
Speaker 1: depart in free agency. He confirmed those beliefs, this time
Speaker 1: not on the player's tribune, but on the Instagram page
Speaker 1: of The Boardroom, an online series looking at sports business
Speaker 1: produced by Durant and his business partner Rich Kleiman. Durant
Speaker 1: would sign a four year deal with the Brooklyn Nets,
Speaker 1: joining Kyrie Irving and James Harden in what was supposed
Speaker 1: to be a super team that could repeat at a
Speaker 1: Golden State level of success. It wasn't. But here was
Speaker 1: Durant on his first media day with the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 7: I just evaluated my life up until this point, and
Speaker 7: once I did that, and it's pretty easy to see
Speaker 7: the direction that I needed to go into. And you know,
Speaker 7: I had some great options on the table with some
Speaker 7: championship winning organizations, some smart business minds behind the scenes
Speaker 7: as well that I could have built with along around
Speaker 7: the league. But I mean, I couldn't make a bad decision.
Speaker 7: But you know, this one was a perfect one for me.
Speaker 8: And what were you weighing when you were thinking about
Speaker 8: whether or not to return to Golden State?
Speaker 1: What ultimately made you decide that it was time to
Speaker 1: move on?
Speaker 7: Just how I felt what I wanted to do at
Speaker 7: that point in my career, what I accomplished in Golden
Speaker 7: State and and Oklahoma City is going to ever be
Speaker 7: a part of me. And I'm only taking those things
Speaker 7: to the next destination. But I really put all that
Speaker 7: stuff on the shelf when it was time to make
Speaker 7: that decision. I really didn't care too much about what
Speaker 7: I did in the past. Is really about how I
Speaker 7: felt at that moment.
Speaker 1: Okay, then the Warriors reset would be significant Besides the
Speaker 1: Durant departure. Also gone were fixtures like Andrea Guadala and
Speaker 1: Sean Livingston. Joining the Warriors were names like D'Angelo Russell,
Speaker 1: Damian Lee and a rookie and Jordan Poole, Draymond Green
Speaker 1: and Kevon Looney would still be around. From the start.
Speaker 1: It would feel like a season to test just how
Speaker 1: dominant Steph Curry could be without options like Thompson and
Speaker 1: Durant beside him. But then, in just the fourth game
Speaker 1: of the season, Curry would be taken out of that
Speaker 1: equation altogether. In the third quarter of a blowout home
Speaker 1: loss to the Suns, Curry tried to put up a
Speaker 1: shot after driving past Kelly Oubre Junior, but a sliding
Speaker 1: Aaron Baines under cut Curry as he went up for
Speaker 1: the shot. Baines also landed on Curry's left hand when
Speaker 1: he hit the floor. Curry, they pay a lot of contacts.
Speaker 3: He sold that left wrist.
Speaker 9: They already saw Steph tweak his ankle.
Speaker 3: He is not moving that left.
Speaker 6: Wrist right now.
Speaker 10: That is the absolute last thing in the.
Speaker 11: World that they need.
Speaker 12: He's on.
Speaker 1: The diagnosis would be a broken left hand for Curry.
Speaker 1: He'd played one more game all season in March, and
Speaker 1: just a few days after that, the world would be
Speaker 1: rocked by the COVID pandemic, temporarily pausing all of sports.
Speaker 1: The Warriors season would be over after a fifteen to
Speaker 1: fifty record. They weren't even invited to participate in the
Speaker 1: finish of the season in the bubble the NBA created
Speaker 1: in Orlando's Disney World. It was quite the contrast. For
Speaker 1: the previous five seasons, the Warriors had been dominating the
Speaker 1: league with Curry, Thompson and Green at the center of it.
Speaker 1: Now the entire league was happening without them. Carith Burke
Speaker 1: was the Warrior's sideline reporter through this stretch and would
Speaker 1: document the sudden shift this season took. When Curry joined
Speaker 1: the list of injured Warriors.
Speaker 8: All the talk going in was like, okay, well, Steph
Speaker 8: is a two time MVP, one of the best players
Speaker 8: in the world. Now it's his time to step into
Speaker 8: that leadership role. How far can he take the team
Speaker 8: on his own and then proof he's gone. It was
Speaker 8: like a decimation of going from the top of the
Speaker 8: mountain to the worst record in the league fifteen and
Speaker 8: fifty's that season. It was brutal because, as you know,
Speaker 8: as a reporter, you want to keep telling the stories
Speaker 8: of the guys on the team, and there are some
Speaker 8: good stories, but you have to make people outside care
Speaker 8: and the storylines just weren't there that year. The Warriors
Speaker 8: just weren't a good team. They couldn't be competitive with
Speaker 8: the better teams in the league. So it was sad.
Speaker 8: I remember it being sad, and then that word merciful
Speaker 8: comes up again because COVID cut that season short.
Speaker 1: In theory that COVID shortened twenty nineteen twenty season should
Speaker 1: have been the proper amount of time to recover from
Speaker 1: Durance's departure and the devastating injuries, but the Warriors would
Speaker 1: be hit with one more major hurdle prior to the
Speaker 1: twenty one season in a cruel twist of fake. The
Speaker 1: same day the Warriors were to benefit from that horrible
Speaker 1: fifteen and fifty season by picking second overall in the
Speaker 1: NBA Draft, the team also got word that Klay Thompson
Speaker 1: tore his right achilles tendon during a pickup game and
Speaker 1: would likely miss his second consecutive full season.
Speaker 3: It was very painful.
Speaker 13: It feels like someone kicks you in the back of
Speaker 13: your heel as hard as they could, and it just
Speaker 13: happened on a true double pull up jump shot, a
Speaker 13: move I do one hundred times a day. So it
Speaker 13: was just an unfortunate series of events. Nothing I could
Speaker 13: have ever prepared for nor prevented. I was working my
Speaker 13: butt off for ten months up to that point, and just.
Speaker 3: You got to go back to the drawing board.
Speaker 13: I knew I did it right away, and it's uh,
Speaker 13: you know, it's it's in the past.
Speaker 1: But I'm getting I'm getting better every day. And while
Speaker 1: that number two overall pick James Wiseman out of Memphis
Speaker 1: wouldn't work out for the Warriors either, there were a
Speaker 1: few key acquisitions during this stretch. In February of twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: the Warriors flipped D'Angelo Russell and a couple other players
Speaker 1: for former number one overall pick Andrew Wiggets. They also
Speaker 1: fortified the roster by picking up Otto Porter Junior, a
Speaker 1: former Max player on a minimum deal, and Golden State
Speaker 1: took a chance on Gary Payton the Second the son
Speaker 1: of NBA Hall of Famer and Bay Area native Gary Payton.
Speaker 1: Without Thompson, the Warriors spent the season relying heavily on Curry,
Speaker 1: who led the league in scoring with the career best
Speaker 1: thirty two a game. Curry would be back in the
Speaker 1: top three in MVP voting, but his team would finish
Speaker 1: eighth in the Western Conference and then eventually losing games
Speaker 1: to the Lakers and Grizzlies to get knocked out of
Speaker 1: the play in tournaments that meant no playoffs at all
Speaker 1: for Golden State.
Speaker 14: Laurant was a leading scorer, but players like Kyle Anderson,
Speaker 14: Desmond Vane, Xavier Tillman making so many big plays and
Speaker 14: that will do it. Memphis Grizzlies are in the playoffs,
Speaker 14: they eliminate the Golden State Warriors. Now the Grizzlies will
Speaker 14: now play the Jazz in the first round, starting on
Speaker 14: Sunday afternoon at Salt Lake City.
Speaker 1: When the twenty twenty one twenty two season began, Klay
Speaker 1: Thompson was still a few months away from returning following
Speaker 1: his back to back devastating injuries, but it was the
Speaker 1: first time the Warriors felt like they could truly move
Speaker 1: on from Durant's departure. If this dynasty would be extended
Speaker 1: past the Durant era, Curry and the Doves would have
Speaker 1: to start showing it now Here's Burke I would.
Speaker 8: Say it was a cleansing that happened because they had
Speaker 8: arrived at rock bottom. The injuries gave them the worst
Speaker 8: record in the league, and then the next season after
Speaker 8: that when they were bounced from the play in they
Speaker 8: were embarrassed. So it was sort of like a reset
Speaker 8: as far as how they felt about themselves. I think
Speaker 8: it's a little silly to say that a team that
Speaker 8: built a dynasty suddenly had a chip on their shoulder.
Speaker 8: Ah'll watch out. But for them, whatever they needed mentally
Speaker 8: to kind of turn the page from the team that
Speaker 8: they once were and to turn the page from Kevin Durant,
Speaker 8: this was that opportunity.
Speaker 1: The Warriors jumped out to an eighteen and two start
Speaker 1: to kick off the season. Pool was providing scoring out
Speaker 1: first when the team needed it, a lot like Thompson
Speaker 1: had done in the past. Green was still among the
Speaker 1: best at what he does, and Wiggins was on his
Speaker 1: way to his first All Star season. The vibes were
Speaker 1: similar to the surprising start of the twenty fourteen to
Speaker 1: fifteen season when Curry won his first championship. But on
Speaker 1: December fourteenth, with the team sitting at twenty two and five,
Speaker 1: the Warriors visited Madison Square Garden with a different goal
Speaker 1: in mind. Curry was just two away from breaking Ray
Speaker 1: Allen's all time record of two thousand, nine hundred seventy
Speaker 1: three three pointers made in the regular season. Here's Curry
Speaker 1: Stephan the time free Curry broke the record in five
Speaker 1: hundred eleven fewer games than out who has since been
Speaker 1: passed by James Harden as well. Curry's credited with changing
Speaker 1: the game to incorporate more shooting in space. In reality,
Speaker 1: it's a concept the league was trending toward already, but
Speaker 1: it was Curry who did the most to open people's eyes.
Speaker 1: Even he needed a handful of years to fully embrace
Speaker 1: just how many threes he should be taken. But once
Speaker 1: he did, Curry continuously shocked even those who watched basketball
Speaker 1: every single day. Mike Breen was a month.
Speaker 15: I think his whole journey is what makes him special.
Speaker 15: He comes in early. He doesn't look like an NBA player.
Speaker 15: He looks like a player that you know if you
Speaker 15: go play pick up at the park. Yeah, this kid
Speaker 15: can shoot a little bit, let's play him. But he
Speaker 15: didn't have this massive athletic body, so everybody could relate
Speaker 15: to him, and he became a fan favorite early. Then
Speaker 15: with his style of the three point shooting, he changed
Speaker 15: the way the game was played. Yet with all this
Speaker 15: greatness that he showed, he still remained this humble, high character,
Speaker 15: unselfish teammate through it all. He was beloved by his teammates,
Speaker 15: he was beloved by his fans. He was the most
Speaker 15: coachable player, and yet at the same time, he was
Speaker 15: the greatest shooter ever played the game. And I think
Speaker 15: all of that comes into play because he wasn't just
Speaker 15: the greatest shooter. He was the greatest ambassador of the
Speaker 15: league of how he handled himself both on and off
Speaker 15: the court. I mean, I could go on and on
Speaker 15: and on about all the wonderful characteristics of him on
Speaker 15: and off the court, and I've always felt it has
Speaker 15: been such an honor to sit courtside and call his games.
Speaker 1: Even those who played alongside Curry can't fully understand the
Speaker 1: control step has over a best the ball. DeMarcus Cousins
Speaker 1: was only Steph's teammate for one season, but he saw
Speaker 1: enough to question whether the game's greatest shooter might have
Speaker 1: alien DNA.
Speaker 16: He has this like childlike demeanor where he's always just
Speaker 16: kind of playing around and being himself. Like I said,
Speaker 16: he's a joy to be around. But you know he
Speaker 16: would walking the old practice arena, the one that was
Speaker 16: still in Oakland. He would always and the way the
Speaker 16: gym was set up, it was baskets all the way
Speaker 16: or all around the gym, just random baskets. It was
Speaker 16: I may be way off, but let's say it was
Speaker 16: about sixteen different baskets all throughout the gym. We had
Speaker 16: about three to four ball racks, and they were always
Speaker 16: right at the door as soon as you walked in.
Speaker 3: So stuff was, you know, steph thing was as soon
Speaker 3: as he.
Speaker 16: Walked in, he would just grab a ball and he
Speaker 16: would just randomly, like just throw it over his head
Speaker 16: like and I watched this guy to do this over
Speaker 16: and over and over again, and I've literally watched him
Speaker 16: make one hundred random just all net, not even looking
Speaker 16: at the basket, just and it was to the point
Speaker 16: where I'm like, man, this dude might not even really
Speaker 16: be from here because I've never seen these, like or
Speaker 16: maybe it's like a magic touching his fingertips or something.
Speaker 3: But I watched it over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: Even those who never played with Curry were feeling his
Speaker 1: impact in and around the league. You heard Trey Young
Speaker 1: discussing stuff at the top of this episode. Young was
Speaker 1: constantly compared to Curry during his final year at Oklahoma
Speaker 1: and as he was preparing for the draft in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: It immediately placed added pressure on Young, given that he
Speaker 1: was really the first prospect to regularly hear those comparisons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean for me, I never like shot away
Speaker 2: from it. But for me, like I never asked for it.
Speaker 3: Like I was.
Speaker 2: I was in college, a freshman in college and just
Speaker 2: playing my game, and I would turn on ESPN, and
Speaker 2: that's what people were labeling me as as the next
Speaker 2: STEPH Curry because I was the only, I don't know,
Speaker 2: light skinning point guard out there shooting threes and dropping down.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what it was, but that's that
Speaker 2: maybe what it was.
Speaker 1: And for me, when you're a kid.
Speaker 2: And that's one of the guys you lived up to
Speaker 2: and when you're an idol, was just like, oh this
Speaker 2: is this is cool whatever. But you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: that wasn't the only guy looked up to as much
Speaker 2: as he was where my role model, And so I
Speaker 2: never went out and said I hated it or whatever,
Speaker 2: but I just succepted it what it is, and that's
Speaker 2: kind of how it was. And I just I know,
Speaker 2: I created my own lane, and that's what I was
Speaker 2: going to do the whole time.
Speaker 1: In the modern era, there have been very few players
Speaker 1: who are considered to have changed the game. Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: changed the way people thought about guards and that he
Speaker 1: didn't need a dominant big man to win at a
Speaker 1: high level. Shaquille O'Neal was so dominant and the paint
Speaker 1: it forced his own defenses to be allowed. In the NBA,
Speaker 1: Curry is often included on that list of game changers.
Speaker 1: Another of Curry's former teammates, Jabey McGee, believes Steph might
Speaker 1: actually top that list.
Speaker 17: I believe he might have the biggest impact on the
Speaker 17: game of the game of basketball, second to literally Ladysmith,
Speaker 17: just because who was trying to even shoot shots that
Speaker 17: he was shooting Like he.
Speaker 15: Had kids coming down.
Speaker 17: In fourth grade trying to shoot four pointers. It's stuff
Speaker 17: that we didn't even think we was legal or like
Speaker 17: we could do before step started doing it. If we
Speaker 17: shot some of the shots that he shot, we already
Speaker 17: knew were coming out the camp, even if we made it.
Speaker 3: So the impact that he had in the game was
Speaker 3: truly no one had.
Speaker 17: People doing okay, So if you put in the aspect
Speaker 17: of okay, this player.
Speaker 3: Dunks and blah blah.
Speaker 17: Everybody came down and some people will never dunk in
Speaker 17: their life, but everybody can attempt to shoot, not saying
Speaker 17: they're gonna make him, not saying they're good. But he
Speaker 17: had everybody in their mothers trying to shoot threes, and threes.
Speaker 3: Weren't even a thing like that.
Speaker 17: To the fact that that's how the NBA is now
Speaker 17: is more three oriented because of analytics. That's a definition
Speaker 17: of changing the game, and that's a definition of doing
Speaker 17: something that we didn't think this possible until you did it,
Speaker 17: And we had no idea that you could actually get
Speaker 17: those mean threes up until Steph and his team did it.
Speaker 1: Back in this twenty one to twenty two season, Steph
Speaker 1: and his team still had more work to do. The
Speaker 1: next big moment after Curry broke the three point record
Speaker 1: was getting Thompson back in the fold after two and
Speaker 1: a half years of nursing injuries. That day came on
Speaker 1: January ninth at Chase Center against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Thompson
Speaker 1: would play twenty minutes, take eighteen shots, and score seventeen
Speaker 1: points in a heartwarming return.
Speaker 4: They play down the lane.
Speaker 18: We'll put it up.
Speaker 10: See the hand time too.
Speaker 1: I told you first shot, Why pin down?
Speaker 11: Just turn the corner.
Speaker 3: Lady's got Jared Allen on the switch.
Speaker 1: He went to reach.
Speaker 17: They played down the lane.
Speaker 4: I think he's healthy. Yuh bow, Soony, come double another steel?
Speaker 1: Play for three?
Speaker 10: Here we go.
Speaker 6: Oh oh, it's feels familiar, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: This wouldn't be the play a bowl. Who would expect
Speaker 1: that after so much time off? And it was evident
Speaker 1: in his shooting numbers. It was just thirty two regular
Speaker 1: season games he played, but Thompson shot under forty percent
Speaker 1: from three for the first time in his career. And
Speaker 1: while Clay's return did bring back championship memories, it came
Speaker 1: at a time when Draymond Green couldn't actually participate. Green
Speaker 1: did play seven seconds in Thompson's comeback game just so
Speaker 1: he could be a part of it, but he was
Speaker 1: just beginning a two and a half month absence due
Speaker 1: to back problems. The Warriors did manage a nine game
Speaker 1: win streak while Green was out, but his absence eventually
Speaker 1: took a toll, as Golden State lost nine to eleven
Speaker 1: from February ninth to March seventh. Then, in Green's second
Speaker 1: game back from his back injury, the Warriors would be
Speaker 1: handed their toughest challenge of the year. Steph Curry injured
Speaker 1: his left foot in a game against the Celtics when
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart dove for a loose ball near Curry's feet.
Speaker 10: Step and Marcus are going for the loose ball.
Speaker 1: Marcus dies and he goes right into steps knee.
Speaker 18: I mean he just hit the floor first.
Speaker 4: I understand seeing Steve curR is bad because it's a superstar.
Speaker 1: But if you hustle, you, if.
Speaker 19: You're hitting the floor like that, it is That wasn't
Speaker 19: a chop boning for the Bault.
Speaker 1: The play itself drew immediate ire from Steve Kerr, who
Speaker 1: actually shouted at Smart for some time after the play.
Speaker 1: Curry wouldn't play another game in the regular season. The
Speaker 1: Warriors had built up a decent cushion with their strong
Speaker 1: start to the season, but still needed to win the
Speaker 1: final five games of the season to secure the number
Speaker 1: three seed ahead of the Dallas Mavericks. Curry would start
Speaker 1: the playoffs coming off the bench in the first game
Speaker 1: against the six seed Denver Nuggets, who had the MVP
Speaker 1: and Nikolea Jokic, but were missing Jamal Murray, who was
Speaker 1: out all year with a knee injury. But behind a
Speaker 1: hot start from Jordan Poole, who had thirty, twenty nine
Speaker 1: and twenty seven in the first three games, respectively, the
Speaker 1: Warriors found their rhythm around Steph cool Kevon Looney had
Speaker 1: been a part of two previous Warriors championships, so he
Speaker 1: knew the formula when he saw it. He said, the
Speaker 1: opening series with Curry starting it on the bench, would
Speaker 1: set the team first tone for the postseason.
Speaker 11: Guys coming out and that play was coming back. So
Speaker 11: it was like a lot of a lot of like
Speaker 11: weird combinations. Well, Steve was trying to light else trying
Speaker 11: to figure out who's gonna work best in it.
Speaker 3: You know, I think it's tested. It's one that you know.
Speaker 3: He came up the bench and was like alleeneen. The
Speaker 3: kind of fell off.
Speaker 1: Then Steph Curry also quietly unveiled a now signature celebration
Speaker 1: in that Denver series. According to Curry, he had been
Speaker 1: giving himself a pep talk earlier in the game, saying
Speaker 1: it was time to put this game and maybe the
Speaker 1: series to bet. So after Curry hit a layout that
Speaker 1: made the score one sixteen to one eleven. With forty
Speaker 1: seconds left in Game three, he put his two hands
Speaker 1: together by the side of his face and quickly gave
Speaker 1: the first night Night celebration the twenty four year No.
Speaker 1: Twenty six as he SOMs to.
Speaker 20: The rack Denver Game three in twenty twenty two, Me
Speaker 20: and Andre there was one possession right before I made
Speaker 20: a layou down the stretch, like less than a minute left.
Speaker 20: He was up on the sideline. He was barking at everybody,
Speaker 20: and I was like, no, I got this, put him
Speaker 20: asleep right now, And I said that to him. It
Speaker 20: just mouthted. I didn't do the sign or other and
Speaker 20: I made the layerup, but I did like a little
Speaker 20: quick of the first quick Night Night and then it
Speaker 20: kind of just evolved from there.
Speaker 1: Later in these playoffs, that celebration would be Steph's version
Speaker 1: of a championship dack. In the second round, the Warriors
Speaker 1: faced the Young Bridglies team led by John Moran, Jaron
Speaker 1: Jackson Junior, and Dylan Brooks. Curry and the Warriors were
Speaker 1: the more poised team and won in six.
Speaker 10: Helps.
Speaker 1: His half to Curry Curry three.
Speaker 20: He got.
Speaker 21: Market time of cat hurry a little sawing the ways.
Speaker 1: In the conference finals, they faced a surprise Dallas team
Speaker 1: led by Luka Doncic and Jalen Brunston. Those Mavericks put
Speaker 1: up less of a fight in the Grizzlies as the
Speaker 1: Doves advanced in five games.
Speaker 6: Britain current hole.
Speaker 22: There's crowdies bat they're on their feet and their.
Speaker 21: Warriors are going to the NBA finals of kame.
Speaker 1: Here's Luke.
Speaker 3: Uh just like you know, after being beating Denver.
Speaker 11: Yeah, like, as each round was growing, we it seemed
Speaker 11: like we had the most experience. You know, we got
Speaker 11: both in Steph Tremont Clay, even myself.
Speaker 3: You have been in a lot of big games.
Speaker 11: And you know, as our far young guys that was
Speaker 11: at the time was Moses JK JP Higgs keeping the
Speaker 11: veteran We haven't played in the playoffs that many times.
Speaker 3: So I think each round our confidence group and then
Speaker 3: who else.
Speaker 11: Who's going up against you know, that was young as well,
Speaker 11: so that MiFi team that was pretty young, Dallas team
Speaker 11: that was pretty young.
Speaker 3: So we felt like man was supposed to win these games,
Speaker 3: and uh know.
Speaker 11: And whenever we did, Spider a little bit stuff putting
Speaker 11: on the cap and carriers. So I think it all
Speaker 11: worked out, and I think each series with that confidence,
Speaker 11: and it all came together in perfect time and in
Speaker 11: the final when we felt like the ultimate confidence for
Speaker 11: our team.
Speaker 1: Waiting for the Warriors in the finals this time was
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics, who had just taken out the top
Speaker 1: seeded Miami Heat in seven games and appeared poised to
Speaker 1: win a championship. The Warriors had the home court edge,
Speaker 1: but lost Game one in San Francisco. Golden State ratcheted
Speaker 1: up the defense for Game two, holding the Celtics to
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent shooting to even the series at one
Speaker 1: game apiece.
Speaker 11: Colts of.
Speaker 1: Game three would be a series changer. The Celtics would
Speaker 1: win to take another lead in the series, but a
Speaker 1: couple of late game occurrences seemed to trigger Kurry. First,
Speaker 1: he injured his footing the same foot he injured against
Speaker 1: the Celtics earlier in the season, and he also heard
Speaker 1: the constant berating of Draymond Green by the Boston craft.
Speaker 23: You've heard over the years, fans getting on Draymond for
Speaker 23: various things. What did you think of the chance tonight
Speaker 23: and the frequency of the chance.
Speaker 20: Par for the course, every arena you kind of get
Speaker 20: a little something. It's been like that the old playoffs
Speaker 20: and every run we've made over the course that he
Speaker 20: expects it, so no different tonight.
Speaker 1: The signs were evident early on in Game four. Curry
Speaker 1: wasn't just chasing shots. He was animated the entire time.
Speaker 1: Whether it was a flex or a shout toward the crowd,
Speaker 1: it was clear Steph was on a particular mission. Curry's
Speaker 1: not a long distance shot. That's good, Steph.
Speaker 22: Curry back to that long distance three and a five
Speaker 22: point lead for the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Here's Burke.
Speaker 8: So Steph Curry got angry Game four of that one
Speaker 8: where where he took the attention from Draymond because Draymond
Speaker 8: admitted he was a little rattled with how much vitriol
Speaker 8: the Boston fans were giving them and that his family
Speaker 8: heard that and that bothered him. So yeah, it started.
Speaker 8: Steph had to be that guy, and he loves being
Speaker 8: that guy. But usually Draymond is the one who takes
Speaker 8: that sort of attention.
Speaker 1: Curry had everyone's attention. He put up nineteen first half
Speaker 1: points and was vocal about it. Then he put up
Speaker 1: twenty four in the second half, taking the heart out
Speaker 1: of the Celtics and the vitriol out of their craft.
Speaker 21: Back to Curry.
Speaker 22: Step back, three pointer, Steph Curry, throw the prey. That's
Speaker 22: a six point Warriors way.
Speaker 21: Tied off, lost him.
Speaker 1: Mike Green called the game and was certainly not surprised
Speaker 1: at Curry carrying his team.
Speaker 15: There's that expression that we use a lot of time,
Speaker 15: he will not let them lose. And that was Steph
Speaker 15: Curry in those finals. He was not going to let
Speaker 15: the Warriors fall short. Whatever he needed to be able
Speaker 15: to do on any of those games, he was going
Speaker 15: to get it done. That was one of those those
Speaker 15: moments swear he plans himself and says, all right, we
Speaker 15: will not was this series.
Speaker 1: Curry only needed sixteen points in Game five as the
Speaker 1: Warriors won at home. He'd save his best for Boston's
Speaker 1: floor once again, and in Game six, Curry capped off
Speaker 1: the magical championship run with thirty four points, seven assists,
Speaker 1: seven rebounds, and the season ending Night Night celebration that
Speaker 1: signaled STEP's fourth championship. It would also be Curry's first
Speaker 1: Finals MVP, completing the trophy collection with the one that
Speaker 1: had been missing and.
Speaker 14: More magic here. In Game six, Currie catch it fakes,
Speaker 14: fires free pointer Steph Curry from downtown a fifteen point lead.
Speaker 14: Another thirty point Finals game for Steph Curry.
Speaker 5: Steph Curry gets opened wide open the side, out of
Speaker 5: bounds out off a fly by sire rely in the
Speaker 5: building realizing that Chef Curry with the shot has just
Speaker 5: put you to sleep.
Speaker 22: It's over the Golden State. Oria's returned to a familiar place.
Speaker 22: They're on top of the NBA world, the fourth title
Speaker 22: of eight years, but Dug's dynasty is still very much alive.
Speaker 1: It was also Steve Kerrzforth title all with Steph. He
Speaker 1: acknowledged that a lot of things fell their way that postseason,
Speaker 1: but having Curry was the most important detail.
Speaker 17: To me.
Speaker 24: That championship was just karma. That was Steph. Karma with
Speaker 24: that guy has brought to the game, to the NBA,
Speaker 24: to the world. I think the basketball gods just decided,
Speaker 24: you know what, We're going to give him his moment.
Speaker 10: You know, he hasn't been Finals MVP. We no longer
Speaker 10: had Kevin.
Speaker 18: We were a good team, not a great team, but
Speaker 18: we had great.
Speaker 24: Chemistry all year, great energy in the locker room, and
Speaker 24: we had continuity. We had no how so once we
Speaker 24: got to the playoffs, we felt like, hey, we got
Speaker 24: a shot.
Speaker 10: And then I think everything.
Speaker 24: Really fell our way. Matchups fell our way. We had
Speaker 24: to get by Memphis, which was a hard one. They've
Speaker 24: always been a difficult matchup for us. Once we got
Speaker 24: past them in the second round, our guys knew like
Speaker 24: we got a real shot here. And Dallas upsets Phoenix
Speaker 24: at it that was a better matchup for us.
Speaker 18: And then I think with the Celtics, you know, they maybe.
Speaker 24: Weren't quite ready just from an experience standpoint, and I
Speaker 24: thought our playoff experience was a.
Speaker 10: Huge factor in that series.
Speaker 24: But in the end, I just remember sitting there watching
Speaker 24: the Staph get his Finals MVP and win his four championship,
Speaker 24: and I'm thinking, this is the most fit thing I've
Speaker 24: ever seen in basketball, because nobody, nobody on Earth deserves us.
Speaker 10: More than Steph Curry for what he's brought to the world.
Speaker 24: It goes so far beyond the.
Speaker 10: The the joy of watching him play.
Speaker 24: You know, he's so mesmerizing, and but when I watch him,
Speaker 24: I just I just I feel like he's one of
Speaker 24: the few people in sports who really transformed culture and community.
Speaker 24: It's the way he goes about his business.
Speaker 10: It's the.
Speaker 24: How comfortable he is in his own skin without any pretense,
Speaker 24: with an authentic perspective.
Speaker 18: On the world, and how lucky he is. There's this
Speaker 18: wonderful sort of combination and his personality of the arrogance
Speaker 18: that comes with making these shots that he makes, even
Speaker 18: taking them alone, is so much audacity to that, and
Speaker 18: the night night celebrations and the shimmys, and then the
Speaker 18: genuine humility. It's an incredible combination. It doesn't really exist,
Speaker 18: and I think people are mesmerized by that. And then
Speaker 18: when you think about how many people he has impacted
Speaker 18: across the country, across the world, and not only with
Speaker 18: his play and his personality, but literally in his charitable
Speaker 18: work and some of the programs he has started.
Speaker 10: And some of the unique ways he.
Speaker 24: Has impacted people in his life, it's just stunning.
Speaker 25: When you reach amounts out of I mean, you get injuries,
Speaker 25: very breaks, all that stuff. The goal is see so
Speaker 25: far away when you just focus on the present work,
Speaker 25: get around the right eyes still keep that paid.
Speaker 9: Three years later, almost of the week.
Speaker 25: Seven years ago to the day he got a first.
Speaker 1: One, not Yes, what that surprising twenty twenty two title
Speaker 1: did was elevate Curry to an even higher stratosphere. No
Speaker 1: longer were there questions about his ability to carry a team.
Speaker 1: Now the conversations were more about his place in history.
Speaker 1: Is he a top five player of all time? Is
Speaker 1: he the best point guard of all time? Is he
Speaker 1: even a point guard? Because of his scoring prowess? Kevin
Speaker 1: Love faced Steph in multiple finals. He says he can't
Speaker 1: compare Steph with Magic Johnson personally because he's never seen
Speaker 1: Magic play in person. But he's not afraid to place
Speaker 1: Curry in very elite company.
Speaker 19: In our generation. He is certainly the greatest point guard,
Speaker 19: greatest shooter. But I think there's no doubt he's a
Speaker 19: top ten player. Is he the best point guard of
Speaker 19: all time? You have to ask that question, You absolutely
Speaker 19: have to. I grew up watching all the VHS tapes. Yes,
Speaker 19: I'm dating myself as an eighty eight baby. But I
Speaker 19: watched Magic, but I never got to see him live,
Speaker 19: so I can't compare the two. Like obviously, Lebron is
Speaker 19: more of that comparison in terms of style of play.
Speaker 19: And then you have to compare Lebron and Jordan with
Speaker 19: greatest player ever. But again for what Steph has done
Speaker 19: for the game, you know, and revolutionize the game, He's
Speaker 19: certainly on that like Mount Rushmore for guys that.
Speaker 26: Have changed it. Four championships, unanimous MVP couple MVPs, greatest
Speaker 26: shooter of all time, and a record that'll never be broken,
Speaker 26: consistent and consummate winner.
Speaker 10: I mean, he's very very high on my list.
Speaker 19: And it's another guy that, like again I just talk about,
Speaker 19: like you know, complimenting and giving people their flowers. I
Speaker 19: can't say enough good things about him. And also with
Speaker 19: how he's done it too. He's it's just been amazing
Speaker 19: year after year to watch him. And obviously it was
Speaker 19: on the wrong side of a lot of what I
Speaker 19: just mentioned, but again, that respect level is, you know,
Speaker 19: there's no ceiling for that when it comes to stuff.
Speaker 1: To David Lee, a teammate of Curry's, for the first championship,
Speaker 1: the league today is effectively a reflection of that twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen Warriors team, and that in itself shows how much
Speaker 1: of an impact Curry has had.
Speaker 9: I think that the NBA is really a copycat league,
Speaker 9: and I think that Golden State twenty fourteen twenty fifteen
Speaker 9: was the first one of the first teams to play
Speaker 9: that small ball, but to really optimize. Shooting a ton
Speaker 9: of threes was small ball, and you had groups that
Speaker 9: tried it in the past. The problem with the copycat
Speaker 9: league is you need guys like Step that don't miss shots.
Speaker 9: Otherwise you just have a bunch of guys bricking threes
Speaker 9: and it doesn't work. But I think it really introduced
Speaker 9: a new style of play. I think maybe right now
Speaker 9: it might be headed a little bit overboard with everybody
Speaker 9: shooting so many threes, But I mean it's lasted in
Speaker 9: Golden State for a long time. It's been a decade
Speaker 9: still making threes and they're still winning games. So it's
Speaker 9: been really special to see.
Speaker 3: That change in the game.
Speaker 9: And there's very few players or teams that can say
Speaker 9: that they kind of shifted the way a sport has played.
Speaker 9: And I think that the team ten years ago that
Speaker 9: won the first championship for the Warriors in the modern
Speaker 9: era can make that claim.
Speaker 1: Since that twenty fifteen championship, the Warriors have effectively won
Speaker 1: titles with three different iterations of their team. The initial
Speaker 1: championship that Lee claims really changed the game behind movement,
Speaker 1: shooting and the tricky part, a stellar defense.
Speaker 3: And it's over.
Speaker 6: The championship is back in the Bay for the first
Speaker 6: time in forty years.
Speaker 1: Then there were the Durant era championships. They added an
Speaker 1: unstoppable offensive force to an equation that had already worked.
Speaker 1: Then there was the twenty twenty two title, which will
Speaker 1: likely go down as one of the greatest anomaly championships
Speaker 1: in the history of the sport. And they won that
Speaker 1: behind the power of Steph Curry and a collective winning
Speaker 1: experience that no other team could match.
Speaker 6: With four titles of the last eight years, the run
Speaker 6: is not done. The Golden State Warriors once again are
Speaker 6: NBA champions.
Speaker 1: The real question following the twenty twenty two title was
Speaker 1: similar to the end of the twenty nineteen season. Will
Speaker 1: this franchise be able to extend this run atop the
Speaker 1: league or have we seen the last of Curry's championship celebrations.
Speaker 1: Is there a Michael Jordan like last dance for Curry,
Speaker 1: Green Cerr and those core Warriors. Hey Kerr was on
Speaker 1: those final Bulls Championship teams. He can effectively recreate the
Speaker 1: mood if he wanted to. The two seasons following Golden
Speaker 1: State's fourth title in eight years, however, didn't have much
Speaker 1: sign of hope. The championship vibes didn't last very long.
Speaker 1: During training camp, video leaked of a Warrior's practice in
Speaker 1: which Draymond Green punched teammate Jordan Poole. The video shows
Speaker 1: Green and Pool jawing at each other during a portion
Speaker 1: of practice they weren't involved in. After Green approached Pool
Speaker 1: and got in his face, Poole pushed Green, to which
Speaker 1: Green responded with a lunging punch. Draymond was fined and
Speaker 1: spent some time away from the team, but was not suspended.
Speaker 1: The regular season was uneven and frustrating, as the Warriors
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out how to win on the road. They
Speaker 1: easily had the worst road record among the playoff teams,
Speaker 1: but still managed to upset the Kings in the first
Speaker 1: round with a Game seven win on the road that
Speaker 1: included a fifth point outburst from Curry that had folks
Speaker 1: believing another title run was very possible.
Speaker 14: Just how ironic one of the worst road teams in
Speaker 14: the NBA during the regular season, we'll have the biggest
Speaker 14: road win of the playoffs as Curry lays it up
Speaker 14: on a fifty point Game seven for Steph Curry.
Speaker 27: And focus on the details of how you're trying to execute.
Speaker 27: We trust each other, everybody that's out there on the floor.
Speaker 27: We had great energy off our bench. You know, everybody
Speaker 27: who played came in with the right intentions. There's a
Speaker 27: lot of conversation and communication and togetherness on the bench,
Speaker 27: which is huge for us. And everything was connected. So
Speaker 27: when that happens and then you're on the court and
Speaker 27: you have clarity of a well, what you're trying to do,
Speaker 27: you know.
Speaker 3: Good things usually happen.
Speaker 27: And it was a great time to kind of put
Speaker 27: it all together on the road in Game seven.
Speaker 1: But the Warriors would lose to the Lakers in the
Speaker 1: second round in six games, ending hope of a second
Speaker 1: back to back run for Steph and the Warriors. The
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three to twenty four season wouldn't get any better.
Speaker 1: The Warriors traded Pool to Washington in exchange for former
Speaker 1: rival Chris Paul Draymond Green spent the season crossing lines.
Speaker 1: He was suspended for five games after putting Rudy Gobert
Speaker 1: in a headlock during a November fourteenth game against the Timberwolves,
Speaker 1: and on December twelfth, he struck use of Nurkic in
Speaker 1: the face, which got him suspended indefinitely, a suspension that
Speaker 1: lasted sixteen games, and during it Green said he even
Speaker 1: considered retirement. The Warriors would lose in the play into
Speaker 1: the Kings as a temp see and never see the actual.
Speaker 22: Playoffs, and they can't like the beam here in Sacramento,
Speaker 22: and they're gonna do just that. Two great friends Mike
Speaker 22: Brown and Steve hurr Ill embrace.
Speaker 1: That meant the Warriors would face a very difficult decision
Speaker 1: that offseason. Would Clay Thompson, the franchise fixture and four
Speaker 1: time champion, be re signed as he entered unrestricted free agency.
Speaker 1: With the Warriors in a difficult financial situation and believing
Speaker 1: Clay's best days were well behind him following two devastating
Speaker 1: leg injuries, it appeared the writing was on the wall
Speaker 1: for a Thompson departure. He spoke about the idea of
Speaker 1: leading the Warriors following the twenty four season.
Speaker 13: Oh Man on twenty nineteen, Well, could you imagine if
Speaker 13: they didn't pay me after I got hurt?
Speaker 3: That would have been really bad?
Speaker 13: Oh With the five straight finals.
Speaker 3: You blew your knee out.
Speaker 10: Yeah, sorry, So.
Speaker 13: No, I mean that was very nice in them.
Speaker 3: I mean I try.
Speaker 13: I mean every year I give my best effort, and
Speaker 13: ownership group has been great. I have nothing but positive
Speaker 13: things to say about them. They treat us like I
Speaker 13: treat us with great respect and do all the little
Speaker 13: things for us to do our jobs at the highest level.
Speaker 13: So it's been I mean, I don't really know how
Speaker 13: to answer that.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's up to them.
Speaker 13: But at the end of the day, whatever happens' small gravy,
Speaker 13: it's been such a freaking special run.
Speaker 1: On July sixth, twenty twenty four, Thompson officially joined the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks as a part of a sign in trade.
Speaker 1: The Warriors got back Kyle Anderson and Buddy Healed in
Speaker 1: the move, looking to create a winner post Clay, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't until another in season trade was made that
Speaker 1: dynasty rejuvenation talk started. The Warriors traded Andrew Wiggins, Kyle Anderson,
Speaker 1: and a first round pick to the Miami Heat for
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler as part of a five team trade. The
Speaker 1: addition reminded Draymond Green of what a championship Warriors team
Speaker 1: felt like to the point where Green guaranteed a championship
Speaker 1: while appearing on T n T during the All Star weekend.
Speaker 12: Jimmy Butler, Okay, how has it been so far? It's
Speaker 12: been incredible. He's bought a purpose back to this this organization.
Speaker 12: I think, you know, we were kind of headed in
Speaker 12: the wrong direction thinking we're figuring it out and never
Speaker 12: figuring it out this year. Throughout the course of this
Speaker 12: year and since he's been here, we walked into every
Speaker 12: game thinking and believing that we're going to win that game,
Speaker 12: and that goes a long way in this league. But
Speaker 12: you walk in the game like, ah, man, we're probably.
Speaker 3: Going to lose this game.
Speaker 12: It's not good. And so he's brought back that belief
Speaker 12: and I think we're going to win the championship.
Speaker 1: Say that one more time so than everybody here say that.
Speaker 22: I didn't hear you my ear piece because they added
Speaker 22: Jimmy Butler the third.
Speaker 3: So I'm sorry.
Speaker 12: I said, I think we're going to win a championship,
Speaker 12: but I lie, we are going to win the champions
Speaker 12: wing tray.
Speaker 1: Even former Golden State great Chris Mullen was believing the
Speaker 1: Warriors could make a run after he watched Butler's addition
Speaker 1: enhance the team's defense and their ability to control the
Speaker 1: game from the free throw line.
Speaker 3: I mentioned little earlier.
Speaker 4: You know, we talked about, you know, analytics, the free throw,
Speaker 4: how important free throws are too, offensive basketball and defensive basketball.
Speaker 4: Back when I was a kid, we were always taught
Speaker 4: the biggest weapon was drawing fouls.
Speaker 1: Yep, you get so much positive things.
Speaker 4: From a foul. Obviously, you get points, you get to
Speaker 4: set your defense, you get to rest, you get to
Speaker 4: communicate with your teammates, all for drawing a foul. And
Speaker 4: during his time of analytics, where you said, you know,
Speaker 4: open two point shots should be layups, the free throw
Speaker 4: is kind of taking a back seat to the three
Speaker 4: point shot. Now, nothing wrong with wide open threes, I
Speaker 4: love them. But when you have a balanced attack of freeze,
Speaker 4: fast break points, points off turnovers, nice layups pull up
Speaker 4: all of a sudden. The ultimate offensive weapon as a
Speaker 4: team and as a player is the element of surprise
Speaker 4: and the balance of attack, and that's what the free
Speaker 4: throw does. So with Jimmy Butler, like I said that
Speaker 4: this team in four games has gone from thirtieth to second.
Speaker 1: That's drastic Golden State managed to nab the seventh seed
Speaker 1: and upset the second seeded Rockets, but a hamstring injury
Speaker 1: to Curry derailed the second round against Minnesota and the
Speaker 1: Warriors were knocked out in five games. But it was
Speaker 1: Curry's performance late in the regular seat and throughout that
Speaker 1: series against Houston that has the Warriors still believing their
Speaker 1: dynasty isn't over just yet. For those who've been around Curry,
Speaker 1: as long as Mullen has, his presence alone gives the
Speaker 1: Warriors real hope. Here's Mulley.
Speaker 4: To me, the way he's handled himself off the floor
Speaker 4: is as extraordinary as the way he's performed, and that's
Speaker 4: an incredible dynamic. And so for me, you know, I
Speaker 4: obviously get to cover their games. I love watching him play,
Speaker 4: but I'm always as impressed how he treats his teammates,
Speaker 4: how he treats the fans. Just very aware of what's
Speaker 4: going on around him, and he cares so for that,
Speaker 4: I mean, I've got the utmost respect namiration for Steph
Speaker 4: as a player and the way he has himself tremendous
Speaker 4: mentor and a role model.
Speaker 1: Curry's global impact is difficult to measure. His influence goes
Speaker 1: beyond basketball, whether it's through his philanthropic efforts or entrepreneurial ventures,
Speaker 1: but it's on the basketball court where his magnetism is
Speaker 1: at its strongest. He showed as much to the world
Speaker 1: during the twenty twenty fourth Summer Olympics when he closed
Speaker 1: out both Serbia and France with ridiculous shooting efforts, then
Speaker 1: celebrating with his signature night Night celebration that everyone was
Speaker 1: waiting for. Warrior's assistant coach Bruce Frasier considers even Curry's
Speaker 1: celebrations a part of what makes him so easy to embrace.
Speaker 2: That's some beauty of stuff, as he's got a lot
Speaker 2: of little kid in him and there's nothing that's like
Speaker 2: calculated or unauthentic about him.
Speaker 20: So the celebrations comes from deep within and they just
Speaker 20: kind of show up.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes he almost.
Speaker 5: Looks bad and giggles out him and says, I wish
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have done that.
Speaker 15: Maybe you know that I'm guessing, but he's pretty humble
Speaker 15: at times, but it comes out the.
Speaker 1: Spirit comes out on the floor.
Speaker 2: So you know, those are all authentic celebrations of many
Speaker 2: of them, Many of them stuck.
Speaker 1: Will also stick around forever are the stories of just
Speaker 1: how great a human Curry has been. Out this entire experience,
Speaker 1: you've heard several folks discuss how step has changed the
Speaker 1: game while lifting a once down trodden Warriors franchise to
Speaker 1: the height of sports success for more than a decade.
Speaker 1: But if you keep digging, there are even more stories
Speaker 1: along the way that displayed just how that humble superstar
Speaker 1: brought joy to others around him just because he could.
Speaker 1: Among them comes one from former Warriors general manager Larry Ryan,
Speaker 1: the man most responsible for the Warriors drafting Curry. Do
Speaker 1: you remember that adorable daughter Curry would bring up to
Speaker 1: the podium many years ago during those first few finals
Speaker 1: runs from stand.
Speaker 3: Entertaining basketball?
Speaker 20: But it's we're both supposed to do.
Speaker 18: Down.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say quiet.
Speaker 1: That was Ryan Curry. She's twelve now, and I might
Speaker 1: have guessed if I now, but she was named after
Speaker 1: Larry Riley himself. But first, of course, Steph had to
Speaker 1: ask for permission. Here's Larry Riley.
Speaker 28: I was really surprised Steph had no problems to speak of.
Speaker 3: And he came to my office and came in and
Speaker 3: sat down and.
Speaker 28: Talked to me and he said, we're going to have
Speaker 28: our first child and we're thinking about naming a Riley.
Speaker 28: What would you think about Well, I just that moved
Speaker 28: me away, and Steph and I had a good relationship
Speaker 28: and probably a little closer than with most.
Speaker 10: Corecourse that I was around.
Speaker 28: I enjoyed his dad and his parents were His parents
Speaker 28: were really really solid in the upbringing of their children, and.
Speaker 1: I just I had a lot of respect for him.
Speaker 28: And when he came in and mentioned that, it did
Speaker 28: blue me what.
Speaker 1: I was honored with that question whether or not this
Speaker 1: Dub Dynasty continues with any more championships, Curry's legacy as
Speaker 1: the centerpiece of a run that may never be duplicated
Speaker 1: has long been cemented, partially because of gestures just like
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