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Speaker 2: Second.

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Speaker 3: Lots of NBA players keep one foot in the door

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Speaker 3: after retiring, per some coach, others head to the front office,

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Speaker 3: and others make a career in broadcasting.

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Speaker 1: It takes a special.

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Speaker 3: Kind of person to do all of that and do

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Speaker 3: it well. And in this game, that guy is Steve Kerr.

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Speaker 3: I have a very long intro to you, so I'm

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Speaker 3: going to make a quick.

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Speaker 1: Basketball legend.

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Speaker 3: Steve Kerr as head coach of the Golden State Warriors,

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Speaker 3: leading the team to four NBA titles as a player

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Speaker 3: equally remarkable three with the Bulls, two.

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Speaker 1: With the Spurs.

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Speaker 3: Also front office of the Suns, color commentator for NBA

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Speaker 3: on T and T, and coach of the men's Olympic

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Speaker 3: team in Paris.

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Speaker 1: Steve, Wow. First of all, that's a lot of hardware.

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Speaker 1: Where do you keep everything?

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Speaker 4: I don't really display it. I just send a daily

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Speaker 4: thank you note to Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan, Steph Kurry,

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Speaker 4: Greg Pop. That's all I write. I just write a

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Speaker 4: quick text thanks guys, and that's it.

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Speaker 3: You just practice gratitude and also which is very healthy.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Although I do think you're you are

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Speaker 3: a common denominator obviously, so you have to take some credit.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about you.

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Speaker 4: I'll take some.

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Speaker 5: A lot of small lineup tonight for BOTHO Steve, yeahead,

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Speaker 5: Steve for another trade, just turn around, fought and fired

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Speaker 5: ten points Raham.

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Speaker 3: After retiring from the NBA in two thousand and three,

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Speaker 6: So stop take him right away and when he comes

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Speaker 6: up the floor, so.

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Speaker 1: It flips a club.

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Speaker 3: Steve's plan was to coach, and that didn't happen overnight,

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Speaker 3: even though it seemed that way. Let's talk about your

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Speaker 3: having a great career, broadcasting career, NBA on TNT, and

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Speaker 1: I know it wasn't that simple.

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Speaker 4: He said, yeah, yeah, Pete Carroll, I spent three days

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Speaker 4: coaches meetings. He was so generous with the scrimmages. Were

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Speaker 3: had suitors, including his former coach, Phil Jackson, who at

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Speaker 4: you know, Phil changed my whole career. My experience in

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Speaker 4: I was all set to go, but the Warriors job

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Speaker 4: he goes, Look, the thing I learned most with coaching,

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Speaker 4: it's all about the players. It's all about your talent.

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Speaker 4: As much as you love Phil, Golden State has the talent.

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Speaker 3: Nonetheless, the franchise spent a lot of time in the

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Speaker 1: But in two thousand and nine, with.

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Speaker 7: the Golden State Warriors select Clay Thompson from Washington State.

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Speaker 3: The Warriors, nicknamed the Dubs, started their ascent under head

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Speaker 4: Chicago and San Antonio, I think I can implements. Here's

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Speaker 4: It makes no sense.

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Speaker 3: In the spring of twenty fifteen, I had the chance

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Speaker 4: That's it, that's what he does.

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Speaker 8: Y'all are making him nervous.

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Speaker 2: This is the thirty foot birdyfoot to win, to win

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Speaker 3: One of the things that struck me was how much

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Speaker 8: Time game. It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: It is amazing.

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Speaker 3: DNA with me Hannah Storm, Episode ten dub Nation. Before

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Speaker 3: Steve Kerr got to the Bay Area, the Warriors were

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Speaker 8: How about that?

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Speaker 5: Rich Organs.

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Speaker 3: In the twenty twelve thirteen NBA season, they made it

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Speaker 3: to the playoffs for the first time in three years.

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Speaker 1: Under coach Mark Jackson.

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Speaker 3: Steph Curry made two hundred and seventy two three pointers

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Speaker 9: the ultimate sacrifice, you know, paid off.

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00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 3: Andre Iguadala, nicknamed Iggy, had started the first seven hundred

444
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 3: and fifty eight games of his career, but he would

445
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 3: now become a sixth man. That was another decision that

446
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:12,199
Speaker 3: you made, having Iggy come off the bench and asking

447
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,880
Speaker 3: him to do so, which ended up being a brilliant decision.

448
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 3: What was it like to have him on that squad

449
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 3: and have a really really from the get go buy

450
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 3: into pretty much everything you were doing.

451
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it took It took a couple months. He

452
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 4: wasn't thrilled. He wastably mature about it. Yeah. I talked

453
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 4: to him about it in training camp. We shared the

454
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,679
Speaker 4: Loud Olsen connection. We both learned the game from coach Olsen,

455
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 4: and so there was an inherent respect. We didn't know

456
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 4: each other that well, but we shared that connection. And

457
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 4: I think the biggest thing was Andre. It was in

458
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 4: his tenth year. He had been an All Star, he

459
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 4: had made you know, Max contract, He wanted to win

460
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 4: a championship and the timing was right. We talked about

461
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 4: it over multiple conversations, and my vision for him was,

462
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 4: if we can start Harrison, it'll make him better, because

463
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 4: Harrison needed the the space. And if we do that

464
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 4: and we put you on the bench, it'll make the

465
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 4: bench better because you can be Armano Ginobili, you know,

466
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 4: our guy who's gonna get get everything said. And I

467
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 4: gave him my spurs, you know, experience, and and I

468
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 4: think he was willing to try it because it was

469
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 4: the right timing and because he was an incredibly smart,

470
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 4: mature player who understood. But honestly, it took him a

471
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,400
Speaker 4: couple of months. He struggles. He had never come off

472
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 4: the bench his entire not a single game, and that's

473
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 4: a tough adjustment to me. So it took a couple

474
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 4: of months, but eventually he really thrived. He was closing

475
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 4: games all the time.

476
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 8: Right, So.

477
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 3: What was it that you had to adjust to in

478
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 3: a basketball sense coming off the bench?

479
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 8: Really good question. Coming off the bench.

480
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 9: Normally the first guy coming off the bench, you know,

481
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 9: the balls in their hands, they're scoring. They're like the

482
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 9: primary score other than any other starter, so they really

483
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 9: like option three. You know, you got your first two

484
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 9: options with your starting lineup, and then you got your

485
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 9: role players around that. But usually your six man's the

486
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 9: guy coming off the bench to scoring. You know, firepower

487
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 9: in all terms of put the ball in the hole.

488
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 9: But for me, Steve wanted me to find the flow

489
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 9: and find the flow mint putting the extra pass in

490
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 9: the game, making the right reads, you know, giving getting

491
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 9: everyone on one accord. We're working on the string defensively,

492
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 9: my voice, leadership, and so you know, those things don't

493
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 9: show up on the stat sheet. And as a starter,

494
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 9: you can kind of feel your way into the game

495
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 9: and you can let it kind of come to you.

496
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 9: But coming off the bench, you want to get right

497
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 9: to it. But for me, it was going in game

498
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 9: set of everyone down, get the ball flowing, and by

499
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 9: the time I started to get a good rhythm, it

500
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 9: was my time to come back out. Coming off the bench,

501
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 9: you know, when you're starting the ball to find you,

502
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 9: you'll get a shot here, shot there, the flow finds you.

503
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 9: But coming off the bench, you got to like force

504
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 9: it a little bit, especially if you're the number, if

505
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 9: you're the scoring option off the bench, being a passing

506
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 9: option off the bench, you know you might not get

507
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 9: a shot until you know, right before your rotation comes

508
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 9: out midway through the second quarter. And so as opposed

509
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 9: to feeling my way through the game getting a couple

510
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 9: of shots, like I may not find a shot or

511
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 9: two in the first half, and then at halftime, I'm

512
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,639
Speaker 9: coming in personally like I didn't make an impression on

513
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,439
Speaker 9: the game, But coming from Steve, he was like, you know,

514
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 9: you were perfect for me, Like your minutes were very

515
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 9: valuable to me, And I know what he meant, and

516
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 9: he knows that I know what he means. But like, hey, Steve,

517
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 9: like I'm on year nine ten, career is coming to

518
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 9: an end. Like if I don't put up some type

519
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 9: of production for those who are paying folks.

520
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 8: Can see it.

521
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 9: I won't have a job soon, So it's just trying

522
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 9: to find that balance too. But like I said, when

523
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 9: you get to the finals, and this is what made

524
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 9: me a true believer in just really trusting the game,

525
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 9: the ball is going to be where it's supposed to be.

526
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 9: And that's why I enjoyed the playoffs most. You know,

527
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 9: like I can really shine. I knew the ball would

528
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 9: do what it's supposed to do, and I could just

529
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 9: trust the game, and it always finds those who are

530
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 9: who have good intentions.

531
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 6: Green lots it up and another nice pass from Green,

532
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 6: who heats the team and assists.

533
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 1: In fact, he's sixth in the NBA.

534
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 6: And assists and Mike. When you commit to Curry like that,

535
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 6: it's four on three. I don't think you can trap

536
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 6: him on every possession. Green blocks Irving.

537
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 3: You have David Lee, he's you know, integral part of

538
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 3: the team and the team has invested a lot in him.

539
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 3: And then he gets a hamstring injury during a game

540
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 3: in November, and this guy named Raymond Green pops into

541
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 3: the starting lineup as his replacement, and pretty soon after that,

542
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 3: there's a sixteen game winning streak.

543
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: What did he unlock in the team.

544
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, Draymond was I had no idea how good he was.

545
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 4: I knew he was a good player, but I kind

546
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 4: of looked at him when I got the job, as

547
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 4: you know, he'll be like a you know, Swiss army knife,

548
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 4: Like we can plug him in here and there and

549
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 4: he can be And David Lee was an all star,

550
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 4: so I had David plugged in, you know, starting power forward.

551
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 4: When he got hurt, we put Draymond in that spot.

552
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 4: And he was so good defensively.

553
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 6: Second round pick by the way, Draymond dreen Is Curry

554
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 6: tied up up the top. Green has excellent pree point range.

555
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 8: Nails it.

556
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: Oh yeah he does that too.

557
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 4: But also he was so smart on offense. He unlocked

558
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 4: a lot of things for us with his ball handling,

559
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 4: with his passing, screening, the force that he played with.

560
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 4: He was a tornado out there and he impacted the

561
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 4: game in so many different ways. And poor David, I mean,

562
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 4: you know, he he gets injured and fifteen games later

563
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 4: we're like, I think we're I don't know, thirteen and

564
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 4: two or something, and I pulled David aside, and I go, look,

565
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 4: this is not your fault, like you've been an amazing player,

566
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 4: but we're clicking with Raymond and we're gonna we're gonna

567
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 4: stay with him. And David handled it as well as

568
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 4: he possibly could. He was great, and he came back

569
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 4: and helped us, you know, win games in the finals

570
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 4: and helped us win a championship. But that was, you know,

571
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 4: almost the Wealie Pip lou Gerritt moment.

572
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, that's the obvious comparison. Yeah,

573
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: here's Iggy.

574
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 9: You know, you've seen a few guys like Draymond in

575
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 9: the past, but not at the level of Draymond. Like

576
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 9: I'll think about like a Chuck Hayes or even like

577
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 9: a Dennis Robin, you know. And I say Chuck Hayes

578
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 9: because he used to guard centers and he couldn't bag

579
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 9: him down he was so strong. And then I say

580
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 9: Dennis Robin because we aren't who Dennis Rodman is and

581
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 9: Draymond being kind of both of those guys in turnos

582
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 9: He's only six four sixty five.

583
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 8: You can't back him down.

584
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 9: Within his basketball IQ, his offensive ability to pass the

585
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 9: ball and make Reed's being a smart player. He just

586
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 9: set himself up for his own lane, like we've never

587
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 9: seen a lane like Draymond Green.

588
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 4: Got a little while Selen steph reebound in the motion,

589
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 4: steph Harry.

590
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 6: Is just highling up the assist.

591
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 3: The Warriors reeled off a sixteen game winning streak and

592
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 3: they're twenty one and two. Start to the season was

593
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 3: their best in franchise history.

594
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 4: Steph Urry.

595
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 5: So back to back threes for the Warriors in a

596
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 5: nice beginning.

597
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: So we're talking about coming off the bench.

598
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 3: I mean we're talking about Andre you know, Clay coming

599
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 3: off the bench this year, David Lee losing his starting job.

600
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 3: I mean for somebody to have the perspective that you do,

601
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 3: understanding coming from a world where it is one through twelve, right,

602
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 3: understanding that you can come off the bench and change

603
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 3: the course of the game and that what you do

604
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 3: can win a championship. How much do you think that

605
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 3: your playing experience in that regard impacted the way that

606
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 3: you viewed this team, your approach to the game, and

607
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 3: what you were trying to sell to the players.

608
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think my playing experience really informed me and

609
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 4: helped me connect with the guys on the bench because

610
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 4: I had been there and I knew exactly what they

611
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 4: were going through. And in a lot of ways, I

612
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,239
Speaker 4: have a harder time understanding what Steph and Draymond and

613
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 4: Clay go through, you know, because they're stars and they

614
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 4: have I never played that role, and they have a

615
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 4: totally different set of circumstances and pressures that they deal with.

616
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 4: So in a lot of ways, I've always connected with

617
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 4: bench guys. But I think, then you guys listen to

618
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 4: me because they know that I was one of them,

619
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 4: and I will share my experiences with them and remind

620
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 4: them of how important they can be and what a

621
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 4: crucial role they can play.

622
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 3: The bench became a lethal weapon. By mid January, the

623
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 3: Warriors reserves averaged over thirty five points a game and

624
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 3: accounted for sixty seven points in a win over Denver.

625
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 3: Just after mid season, the Warriors bench ranked first, and

626
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 3: field goal percentage in blocks second, and assists and steals

627
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 3: top ten in scoring.

628
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: You get the idea.

629
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 3: The bench was really, really good, and it allowed Kerr

630
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 3: to limit Stephan Clay's minutes, keeping them fresh for the

631
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 3: coming playoff runs.

632
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 7: Numbers here to five on three hurried down the lane

633
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 7: play for three.

634
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 3: Another factor for the Warriors home court advantage the Oracle Center,

635
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 3: the city of Oakland, Dog Nation was in love with

636
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 3: their team.

637
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 4: Curry again, there was there was just a buzz in

638
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 4: the building that actually I felt even when I was

639
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 4: a player and I would play against the Warriors and

640
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 4: the Warriors weren't even any good, but there was a

641
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 4: buzz in the building because people in Oakland loved basketballers.

642
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 4: You know, deep basketball history in the Bay Area, you know,

643
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 4: going back to Bill Russell at USF, but you know,

644
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 4: going back to the Warriors, you know, with Rick Berry

645
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 4: and Al Addles and seventy five. There's always been an

646
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 4: amazing love for basketball. So that year, walking into Oracle

647
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 4: every day and the fans sensing that something special was happening,

648
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 4: there was just an electricity that you could feel.

649
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 9: You know, you look at Steph's commercials nowadays and you

650
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 9: know Stephan is dancing, you know his vibes, and when

651
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 9: you see the dance and it has the Oakland bop

652
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 9: to it, you know, it has an open rhythm to it.

653
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 9: And I just said, you know, you talk about the town,

654
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 9: the town being on our jerseys the last few there,

655
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 9: the last few years being in Oracle. The energy, you know,

656
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 9: even playing in the series when I was in Denver,

657
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 9: like I had really good games of Oracle. Just the

658
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 9: energy in there, and you know, talking to KD when

659
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 9: he came in, he was like, no, this is one

660
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 9: of my favorite arenas to play in. It was a

661
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 9: basketball arena. The depth perception was perfect, the experience was perfect,

662
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 9: and then the fan base, like it was electric in there,

663
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 9: and like you just couldn't wait to play at home

664
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 9: in ourca, Like it's a shooters gym and you got

665
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 9: some of the greatest shooters, and so it was just

666
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 9: the vibe was just there. The community has always been

667
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 9: supportive even in their down times, and it could have

668
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 9: been a perfect, a better situation in terms of, you know,

669
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 9: the culture we built with the team, the fan base,

670
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 9: the city, the vibes, you know, the weather.

671
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 8: It was just it was amazing.

672
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 3: On January twenty first, the Warriors established a new franchise

673
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 3: record seventeenth straight home wins. Two nights later, on the

674
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 3: twenty third, in a game against the Kings at the Oracle,

675
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 3: Klay Thompson set a record, scoring an unbelievable thirty seven

676
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 3: points in the third quarter.

677
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: Forty nine get it to it again. He's gotten it.

678
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:37,240
Speaker 1: Wills three.

679
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 8: Kets.

680
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 3: You called that thirty seven point quarter religious experience, I recall, yeah.

681
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 4: It really was. It was. I think it might be

682
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:57,240
Speaker 4: my favorite basketball moment I've ever had in my life.

683
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 4: It was so bizarre, it was so surreal, and obviously

684
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 4: winning championships is amazing, you know, so I'm not trying

685
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 4: to diminish the feeling of winning a championship, but the

686
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 4: surreal nature of Clay scoring thirty seven points, it was

687
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 4: like the fans were involved. They were so it was

688
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 4: like everybody was mesmerized it Clays in this trance. Nobody

689
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 4: can believe what they're seeing, and it kept going and

690
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 4: going and going in the buzz in oracle. Was it

691
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 4: was unlike anything I'd ever felt because it was so

692
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 4: unique and so incredibly just unbelievable, Like I know, it

693
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 4: just couldn't have that couldn't happen, and yet it did.

694
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 4: And then you had Steph running up and down the sidelines,

695
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 4: you know, look of disbelief in his eyes. To this day,

696
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 4: it's my favorite basketball moment.

697
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 3: And Golden State could switch it up with their so

698
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 3: called death lineup replacing seven foot center Andrew Boget with

699
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 3: the versatile forward six foot six andre Iguodala.

700
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 9: It looks like a small lineup, but when you look

701
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 9: at it on the perimeter, we were a little bit

702
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 9: bigger than most teams on the perimeter. Now the league had,

703
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 9: you know, we got two prolific shooters and Stephan Clay

704
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 9: changing the game. The NBA's trending towards that anyway, and

705
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 9: so you start seeing two small guard lineups where it's

706
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 9: like the NFL, you have two running backs where you

707
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 9: can have two smaller guys, meaning like a guy that's

708
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 9: six ' to one another guy that's sixty three on

709
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 9: a four at the same time, where step is really

710
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,760
Speaker 9: six three sixty four, like he's a big point guard.

711
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 9: People may not realize that about him because he's around

712
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 9: giants all the time. And then Klay Thompson is six

713
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 9: seven at the two. I remember playing the Boston Celtics

714
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 9: and I guarded I was guarding it in one possession.

715
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 9: I guarded Rondo, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and kg all

716
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 9: in the same possession, you know, just switching and all

717
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 9: those things. So I had already seen it before, you know,

718
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 9: I had already been through that in my career as

719
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 9: a defensive guy.

720
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 3: The Warriors had electric moments that season. In March, right

721
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 3: around the time I shot the ESPN special, Steph dribbled

722
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 3: around four Clippers defenders and step back for a three.

723
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 6: Curry slips the leaf of behind the back fires at track.

724
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 6: A spectacular moment, but it's still Longe, just.

725
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 4: Live and I turn around and I'm holding my head

726
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 4: like what are you doing? Yes, you know, and then

727
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 4: laugh at and that's you know, that's my point. I mean,

728
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:42,280
Speaker 4: it just it took some time because he really did

729
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 4: change the game. And you know when people say that,

730
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 4: it's really it's not hyperbole. He changed the game. He

731
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 4: changed what was a good shot, and for great shooters

732
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 4: like Steph, and there aren't many like him, but Clay

733
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 4: was very similar. A quick transition three, even off the dribble,

734
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 4: had always been considered a bad shot. To that point.

735
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 4: Steph changed that play, changed that. It's now the shot

736
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 4: you're looking for transition three, Like how quickly can you

737
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 4: get the ball up the floor, Because a wide open three,

738
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 4: or even a contested three from a great shooter is

739
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 4: now a great shot.

740
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 3: The Warriors finished that season with the league best record,

741
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 3: sixty seven and fifteen tyme the franchise record for road

742
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 3: wins with twenty four. Steph Curry was named the NBA MVP.

743
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 2: It's also particularly special that you're the first player in

744
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:52,919
Speaker 2: fifty five years as a Warrior, the Windy Aster. I'm

745
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 2: the last one overboard Will Chamberlain. So you're a very

746
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 2: special company. So it's my honor and my pleasure to

747
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 2: present you Steph Curry with the two thousand, fourteen fifteen

748
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 2: Kia MVP Award.

749
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 3: In the playoffs, the Warriors got off to a fast start,

750
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 3: sweeping the Anthony Davis led New Orleans Pelicans in round one.

751
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 6: Curry to Green, Green fights Curry, gorgeous steeve seventh assist

752
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 6: for Trayvon Green. Such a good passer, Curry.

753
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: It's a Green greed drive speed lazer.

754
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 3: They took down the Grizzlies in six games in the

755
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 3: second round. The headline from that series ultimately was Curry.

756
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 8: Green weaving, try to get a shot up. No call

757
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 8: that way. Curry plays it the other way.

758
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 3: In those playoffs, you had beaten you beat Memphis in six,

759
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 3: but at one point you lost back to back. I mean,

760
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 3: you had to get back on track. Right, And the

761
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 3: real headline from that series was, Steph, it was a

762
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 3: sixty two footer at the end of the third quarter

763
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 3: in Game six.

764
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: Just take us into that moment.

765
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we we had been down to to one

766
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 4: and then we won the next two and kind of

767
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 4: took control of the series. And we really had control

768
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 4: of Game six. We were playing well comfortable, you know,

769
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 4: twelve fourteen point lead. That was back in the time

770
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 4: when that actually was a big lead, unlike.

771
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,959
Speaker 1: Exactly disappear right.

772
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 3: Later.

773
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks to you, by the way, and Steph, thanks

774
00:42:59,360 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 1: to you guys.

775
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:06,399
Speaker 4: But what I remember is Memphis and they were good.

776
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 4: They were tough, you know, physical team, Zach Randolph and Marcasol.

777
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 4: They were started to pound us inside and they cut

778
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 4: the lead I think to six near the end of

779
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 4: the third and there was it was was it a

780
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 4: jump ball? It might have been a jump ball in

781
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 4: our on our end of the court. You know, there's

782
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 4: only a couple of seconds left. And Steph, who was

783
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 4: the only person I had ever known who took every

784
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 4: half court shot, you know, every three quarter shot like never.

785
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 4: You know, most guys in the league they wait that

786
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 4: extra half second, like I don't want my shooting percentage

787
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 4: to Steph didn't he didn't care, and he would take

788
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 4: every half court shot and in this case, it was

789
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 4: a three quarter court shot. And I just remember the

790
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 4: wind getting knocked out of the Grizzlies stomachs. You know

791
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 4: that the whole arena went silent, and it went from

792
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 4: six to nine or seven to ten, something like that,

793
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 4: and I don't think they ever threatened again. That was

794
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 4: the key shot. And man, what an amazing moment.

795
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 3: After Memphis, the Warriors dispatched James Harden's Houston Rockets in

796
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 3: five games in the Western Conference Finals.

797
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 5: It was hard going again, Fines Curry's quick release on

798
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,280
Speaker 5: the three as got it, I lost it again.

799
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 6: There comes Egadala all alone.

800
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 3: The Doves advanced to their first NBA Finals since last

801
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 3: winning the title in nineteen seventy five, facing Lebron James Cavaliers,

802
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 3: sparking a fierce rivalry that would play out over the next.

803
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 1: Three NBA Finals.

804
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 3: What do you think in the end, you spoke about

805
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 3: the death lineup, But how did you guys? What was

806
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 3: the biggest challenge that you overcame and why do you

807
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:00,879
Speaker 3: think you overcame it and were able to win those

808
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 3: finals and do so on the run.

809
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 4: Well, Lebron was just so good still is, but you know,

810
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 4: right in his prime, coming off multiple championships in Miami

811
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 4: Force of Nature. I think the reason we won was

812
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 4: because we had an incredible roster and what Bob Myers

813
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 4: built and Joe Lake of our organization, you know, the

814
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:30,800
Speaker 4: foundation that they had built gave us multiple defenders so

815
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 4: much versatility that we could kind of play any style.

816
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 4: And when you combine that with the character and the

817
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 4: quality of our our players, our people, steph and Clay

818
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 4: and Draymond, Andre, all these guys who were so committed

819
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 4: to winning, Andre making the sacrifice to come off the bench,

820
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 4: the players adapting and adjusting to whatever decisions we made

821
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 4: in the playoffs. They were all in. Everybody was all in.

822
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 4: And the ability to bring Andre back into the starting lineup,

823
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 4: put him on Lebron James, you know, take Clay off

824
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 4: of him, take Harrison off of him, let those guys free.

825
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 4: It changed everything. But you can only do that if

826
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:15,840
Speaker 4: you have an incredible roster and great character, high character players,

827
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 4: and we had that.

828
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 3: After Golden State fell behind two to one in the series,

829
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,720
Speaker 3: Kerr went to the death lineup right away, giving Iggy

830
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 3: his first start of the season, replacing Boget in Game

831
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 3: four in the.

832
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 4: Finals, when you know, Cleveland was beating us to one

833
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 4: and we were struggling to score and we needed to

834
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 4: change change things up. And you know, the irony of

835
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 4: going to Andre and saying, okay, we need you to

836
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 4: start again and having him not only thrive but become

837
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 4: Finals MVP. It was kind of like, Okay, this is

838
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 4: validation that sacrifice works, you know, and you know, the

839
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 4: guy who made the main sacrifice for the team gets

840
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 4: Finals MVP. Like every coach's dream is for something like

841
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 4: that to happen because it's validation for what you're trying

842
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 4: to sell to the group all year long. So that

843
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 4: was an incredible moment.

844
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:23,760
Speaker 5: Games Spins, pivots stripped stolen by Igodala. Here's Curry, Andre

845
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 5: Igodala with another fine defensive player. That leads to it

846
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 5: easy two points another feet inside of Curry.

847
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 3: So you go to the NBA Finals, you match up

848
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 3: against the Calves, You're matched up against Lebron James.

849
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: You guys, are they have they have a two to

850
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: one lead.

851
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 3: I mean at that point Lebron was like averaging forty

852
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 3: one points through three games, so kind of take me

853
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:49,479
Speaker 3: through the adjustments. In game four, here comes the death

854
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 3: line up at you in particular because you had, you know,

855
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 3: the toughest job out there.

856
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 9: Well, I think it was game three where we lost

857
00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 9: but we found something in the second half. We something

858
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 9: and we had we went on the run. Now we

859
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 9: didn't complete the run and we didn't win the game.

860
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,879
Speaker 9: But I think, you know, you play hard every minute

861
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,720
Speaker 9: of the way for a reason.

862
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 8: You know.

863
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 9: That's why I'm not too upset by teams who still

864
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 9: try to execute and run their plays even if they're

865
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 9: up big in the games. You know, as long as

866
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 9: you're not trying to run up the score, but you're

867
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 9: trying to execute, you get something out of every minute.

868
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 9: I tell young guys, go in the game, finish the

869
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 9: game as hard as you can. Like something might click.

870
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 9: You know, you might hit the right shot at the

871
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 9: right time. Coach might see you're always ready and put

872
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 9: you in the game next game. So in that moment,

873
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 9: we saw something. And my friend Clark Miyasaki, who I

874
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 9: saw right after the game, and we were talking. He

875
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 9: was in Cleveland, and I said, man, I think we

876
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 9: found something. I think we got ball.

877
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 5: Buober Agadala hesn't been to shoot now, Curry not and

878
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 5: HiT's the three pointer. The extra pass for.

879
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 4: Megadala cannot give them any ass pace.

880
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 5: Bigadala left open, makes a joke and knocks down the shot.

881
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 9: And we saw someone with that small lineup that it

882
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,799
Speaker 9: was like, okay, they don't have a threat offensively under

883
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 9: the basket, which enables us to go small.

884
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 8: And so we saw something there.

885
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 9: In game four, we knew we had it, and we

886
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 9: knew we were you know, we go back home and

887
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 9: win it, and then obviously you have three two just

888
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 9: you know, the toss up of a game six and

889
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 9: trying to close them out.

890
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,359
Speaker 1: The lineup was the death of the Cavaliers.

891
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 3: The Warriors won the last three games and their first

892
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 3: NBA championship in forty years.

893
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:33,320
Speaker 6: Rebound Curry and the dream season is now complete.

894
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: The Golden State Warriors.

895
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 6: Are the twenty fifteen NBA champions.

896
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 3: Did you have any sense when you beat the Cavaliers

897
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 3: for that first title that this was something that could

898
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 3: happen again and again? What was your initial reaction upon

899
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 3: winning the title and then how soon did it take

900
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 3: you to start thinking, listen, we can we can run

901
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 3: this back. This is this is really something special because

902
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 3: you had been a part of that Bulls dynasty. I

903
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 3: mean you understood, you know, you had been with the

904
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 3: Spurs perennial contenders, so you know, I'm pretty sure you

905
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 3: could recognize a very special squad when you saw it.

906
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know, we weren't sure we could

907
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 4: do it during the season, but you know, I was

908
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 4: trying to convince the guys that we could. Once we did,

909
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:23,760
Speaker 4: my first thought was, we can do this again, because

910
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 4: my experience with Chicago and San Antonio was once you

911
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 4: know you can do it, in some ways, it's easier

912
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 4: to do it the next time. You have a deeper

913
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 4: sense of confidence and on a level of trust of

914
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:40,399
Speaker 4: each other. Now, the flip side is it's exhausting. There's

915
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 4: there's kind of this sweet spot where I think, this

916
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 4: the year after you win the title, that's your best

917
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,959
Speaker 4: shot to go in another one because you're on this high.

918
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 4: You have this amazing confidence. But once you start stacking

919
00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 4: season after season on top of one another, it gets

920
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 4: physically and emotionally so exhausting that it gets harder. So

921
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 4: I thought, ironically, I thought our best shot will be

922
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 4: next year We're gonna win next year too, Like I

923
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 4: really believe that it could have.

924
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 2: Been a lot of these guys, but there can only

925
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 2: be one.

926
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: MVP, and andre Iguodala made history.

927
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 2: And this year's MVP is a player who didn't start

928
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 2: in a single game until these Finals. This year's Bill

929
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 2: Russell MVP, andre Iguodala.

930
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 3: You are named Finals MVP, the first player in NBA

931
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 3: history to win that title without starting a game during

932
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 3: the regular season.

933
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: What did that mean to you?

934
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 9: I think I was more just shocked and just overjoy

935
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,839
Speaker 9: winning a championship. And I think that's the greatest joy

936
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 9: when you win a championship is not knowing what the

937
00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 9: hell was going on or what to do after the

938
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 9: buzzer goes off, Like you know, I saw that step

939
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 9: through the ball in the air, and I don't know,

940
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 9: my mind went to follow the ball and catch it,

941
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 9: and I remember like three or four teammates were like

942
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 9: hugging me and chase me around, and I'm like, get

943
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 9: off me, and I'm running around.

944
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 8: I don't know which way to go, and I'm like,

945
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 8: no way this is happening.

946
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 9: You know, you spend your whole career two of days,

947
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 9: three days in the summer, you know, going through you know,

948
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 9: the nonsense of the things you have to deal with

949
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,320
Speaker 9: being a professional athlete, the traumas of things, you know,

950
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 9: all the things you're dealing on and off the court,

951
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 9: and the ultimate goal of being a champion is a

952
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 9: lot harder than people can understand. It's some people never

953
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 9: get to the playoffs.

954
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 3: You know.

955
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 9: Some guys never get an opportunity to you know, get

956
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 9: to the second round or even just even look at

957
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 9: the finals. And I never had the opportunity to look

958
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 9: at the finals and for us to you know, do

959
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 9: what we did. Uh, the game planning and sacrifice. The

960
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 9: MVP was just chising on the cake. Like I wasn't

961
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 9: expecting it. I was really surprised, you know, Bob Myers

962
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 9: let me know, and I really didn't not hurt them,

963
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 9: but and I wasn't thinking about it. I'm like, all right,

964
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 9: that's cool and all. But we just won a championship.

965
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 9: So it was really really about the team.

966
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 3: As you look back on the Warriors and the multiple titles,

967
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 3: and that tag dynasty certainly applies to Golden State. Is

968
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 3: that something that you envisioned at the time that you

969
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:23,800
Speaker 3: won that first title?

970
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I mean after you win the first one,

971
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 9: I think our group was special when we understood, you know,

972
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 9: the opportunity that was ahead of us, and we're a

973
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 9: very competitive group, and so we wanted to prove that

974
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 9: the first time wasn't the Fluke Steward again. You know,

975
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 9: once you get to my age, once you get there,

976
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 9: it's like I don't want to go anywhere else but here.

977
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 9: You know, your splash brothers, who are you know now

978
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 9: they want to really make their mark on the league.

979
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 8: Like all right, we here.

980
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 9: You know, we're the top two guar combo in the

981
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 9: league and we're going to stay here for the next

982
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 9: ten years. Then you got like dre Mine is like

983
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 9: always the doubted one and he has a chip on

984
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,839
Speaker 9: his shoulders, but at the same time like being who

985
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,239
Speaker 9: he is. It's a perfect scenario for him to really

986
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 9: be who he naturally is and can really express himself

987
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 9: in a manner where that takes his game to a

988
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 9: higher level.

989
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 8: Like you don't want to get in his way.

990
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 9: You know, you got a guy like that, you don't

991
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 9: want to try to tain for lack a better word, him,

992
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:21,840
Speaker 9: You got to let him be who he is in

993
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,320
Speaker 9: order for him to really go out there and produce

994
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 9: at the level that he's done his entire career and

995
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:27,879
Speaker 9: creating his own lane. And then, like I said before,

996
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 9: Harrison Barnes, young guy. You know, he's trying to build

997
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 9: his own lane as well. And then the bench we

998
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 9: had was just amazing. You know, myself, Sean Limison and

999
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 9: I have been playing basketball against each other since we

1000
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:41,160
Speaker 9: were eleven years old. Wow, So so we go way back,

1001
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 9: and you know what he went through in his career

1002
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 9: and coming back and then he was really a staple

1003
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 9: and his fabric is really built into the cough of

1004
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:51,360
Speaker 9: the culture that we built.

1005
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 8: Barbosa was amazing for us.

1006
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,240
Speaker 9: You know, we just had everyone looked out for one another,

1007
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 9: and you know, it's really hard to build teams and

1008
00:54:59,000 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 9: culture like that.

1009
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 1: Here's Steve.

1010
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 4: I've been incredibly lucky. And obviously with the talent too.

1011
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, to coach Steph Curry and and

1012
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 4: Raymond Clay and Andre and all these guys, I mean,

1013
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 4: it's I was set up for success.

1014
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 3: Under Steve's leadership, the Warriors have won four titles and

1015
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,240
Speaker 3: made six trips to the NBA Finals.

1016
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 4: In hindsight, it's obvious with the talent, and then as

1017
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 4: you coach and you realize, oh wow, I don't have

1018
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 4: nearly as much control as I thought I might. You know,

1019
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 4: when you really get into coaching and you realize that

1020
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 4: you know how powerless you can be. And then the

1021
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 4: other thing is guys like Steph Curry are once in

1022
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 4: a generation human beings. There's there's so few. Tim Duncan

1023
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 4: was very similar to Steph. And you know Pop, when

1024
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 4: I have dinner with Pop, when he has dinner with anybody,

1025
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 4: he starts every dinner with a toast to Tim dunt To.

1026
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: This day, you're kidding, no matter what the context.

1027
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 4: Context, Poorzwan. He goes, here's Tim Duncan, and it's Pop's

1028
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:13,760
Speaker 4: way of saying, you know, we are all so dependent

1029
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:17,840
Speaker 4: on the character and the talent of our best players,

1030
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 4: and that's coaching in the NBA. And he was so

1031
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:24,239
Speaker 4: lucky to have Tim. Tim allowed him to have this

1032
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 4: run that he's been on. And I would say the

1033
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 4: exact same thing about Steph. So we're lucky.

1034
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:32,359
Speaker 1: Next time.

1035
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:36,840
Speaker 3: On the final episode of NBA DNA, David Storm and

1036
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 3: The Inside Stuff. NBA DNA with Hannah Storm is a

1037
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 3: production of iHeart Podcasts. The NBA and Brainstorm in Productions.

1038
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 3: The show is written and executive produced by me Hannah

1039
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 3: Storm along with Julia Weaver and Alex French. Our lead

1040
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 3: producer and showrunner is Julia Weaver. Our senior producers are

1041
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:12,880
Speaker 3: Peter Cauder, Alex French, and Brandon Reese. Editing and sound

1042
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 3: design by Kurt Garn and Julia Weaver. The show's executive

1043
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 3: producers are Carmen Belmont, Jason English, Sean t Tone, Steve Weintraup,

1044
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 3: and Jason Weikelt