February 16, 2023 • 31 mins
Wearing number 30 for the Brooklyn Nets, Seth Curry has traveled a winding road to his rightful place as one of the greatest sharpshooters in basketball history. Ally sits down with the combo guard to discuss his journey to the NBA and the lessons he has learned throughout his career thus far.
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It's your girl, Alie Love. Welcome to courtside Converse station
now wearing number thirty for your Brooklyn Nets. Seth is
a ten year NBA vetting and one of the best
three point sharpshooters of all time. Taking a courtside with
me to hit this seat, Seth Curry, Seth, what's up? Hey,
what's going on? How are you doing? I'm so excited.
I'm thrilled that you are here. We can have this conversation.
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I know you were supposed to have an off day,
so you're actually fresh off of practice. They called an
audible on you, so we appreciate your time. Yeah, you
gotta be adaptable, you know, so fresh how to practice
a little tired, But let's do it all right, So
let's let's go ahead it and step into quartside conversation
where we talk about the game of life and we
tee it up in Q one. Now I can imagine
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growing up in the Curry household. Y'all are very passionate
and competitive people. I think that goes without saying. Anyone
who knows y'all hear interviews over the last few years.
We all are some takeaways when it comes to non competition,
Like take us into the household of growing up, where
it wasn't about a game, there was no competition. What
was the scope of your family Like on a day
where you had quote unquote nothing going on, it was
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always some competition. Somebody were finding something to get into. Yeah,
well there was a video games BOYD game, something was
going on in the house. But outside of that, My
mom was a elementary school principal growing up, so she
was big honest about the academics, getting our school work
and stuff like that done before getting to the athletics.
So kind of a well round the household, very discipline,
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but like I said, always back to the competitiveness and
and trying to have fun. Yeah, what did you get
in trouble for the most growing up? Because I feel
like for me, I would always go get in trouble
because as a little kid, I just walked out the
front door. I had no sense of safety, and I
always wanted to go in the neighborhood and play with
the kids, and I wouldn't even tell anyone. I just
walk out the front door. For me, it was always
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it was always something. My other two my siblings never
really got in trouble. For me, it was something every day.
So probably the main thing was talking back. I had
a smart mouth, they said growing up. So that was
what my mom was always on me about. Did you
talk back to your dad and your mom equally one
of them got it more than the other. I'll say
my mom got it more than my dad. My dad,
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more like me, kind of laid back now, so he
wasn't really on me too much. My mom was on
one always around who was who was laying the law down?
Do you still talk back or have you learned your lesson?
I learned my lesson now I grew up a little
bit and learned to show a little bit more respect.
What's that one game? I think every family has one
game that is off limits because it causes too much
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family conflict. Like I don't care how competitive or non
competitive you are, there's one game you cannot play. Whether
it's red light, green Light, whether it's hide and seek,
whether it's in my household, Monopoly, where I think just
center a wedge between the family. What's that game for
y'all that's just off limits to this day? Yeah, I
was gonna stop it right there. Monopoly, that's the one
that's the one, because it's always some bad deal, some
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bad trades going down that somebody has an objection to
and it can end the game. So I don't know
what's going on behind behind the scenes, but I feel
like it's always some collusion going on against me that's
trying to help me, made me not win. You know
what's funny, That's the first word that came to my
mind if I think of my family is like collusion.
Who would a collude? Who are the colluders in your family? Like?
Who teams up every time I was probably my sister
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and my mom they yeah, everywhere close and they they're
always trying to team up. But I feel like it
always against me to stop me from winning. But that's
just from my point of view. Now we think of family,
one of the things that comes to mine are like
great takeaways. One of the things my mom used to
say growing up all the time, because I used to
get nervous, like as a dancer or going into a
new school, like when it was anything novel or new.
She was always saying, you know, you gotta fake it
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till you make it, in the sense of not to
be a fake person, but dress how you want to
be perceived, right, play that part dress if you want
to be the ballerina, dressed like a ballerina. You know,
like kind of fake it till you make it. Was
there one of the takeaways that you hold near and
dear now to your heart that comes from that child
those childhood moments. I mean, it's so many, but I
think just the biggest thing I remember from growing up
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my dad played in the NBA for a long time,
and him just trying to bring us around the gym
into practices and watching work as much as possible. I
feel like those times where Hows with me and my
brother both were just soaking up so much knowledge just
from watching him and watching his teammates work without even
knowing it. So I think looking back onto those those times,
it's soaking in the knowledge, learning so much about not
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only basketball, just perfecting your craft or whatever whatever it
was we were going to go into allow us to
be professionals we are today. As a kid, I mean,
we all can imagine the upside and takeaways of having
a father in the NBA, having an athletic family in general,
because you get not only the physical side of it, right,
you get tools from there, but also the mental side
of it. But what were frustrating points about that? Because
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I think sometimes everyone looks at people that are in
the limelight with a small aperture of like you had
it easy. You had it. You know it was handed
to you, but it wasn't because you had to work
for it, and it wasn't always fun. What were those
not fun moments growing up, even given the access that
you did have. For me, I kind of had double
trouble because my father who played in the NBA, then
I'm younger to add an order obviously steph older brother
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who was in the league before me and kind of
got the spotlight. So for me, I feel like it
was just some expectations always there, people thinking out play
in a certain way, like my father or should be
doing this, so kind of high expectations of who I
should be without actually watching me playing or watching me
do what I do. So trying to live up to
those expectations and trying to just be comfortable in my
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own skin and be who I am as a person,
as a player, and that's something I'll just continue to
grow in and work on being the best for me
I could possibly be without comparing myself to those guys.
Was there ever a moment where it was I kind
of a turning point, because I can imagine as a
kid being compared to my cousins. It's just like, it's
tough being compared to anyone, especially someone that you love,
especially by the outside world when they don't know anything
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in a sense or they don't have access to really
what's going on. But was there ever a turning point
where you're just like, you know what I'm gonna I'm
gonna care, but I'm not gonna care as much and
it's not gonna affect me as much. It's kind of
a gradual process of just getting better at it, and
like I said, just being my own person, running my
own race. I think one point was probably being just
being undrafted. So obviously my dad was drafting, my brother
was drafted first round in the NBA, and myself going
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through some adversity and not being drafted and trying to
create my own path to where I want to be
in and make it to the league, having to earn
my keep every step of the way. So I think,
just like I said, those expectations of you should be this,
you should be getting drafted, but actually just sticking to
my plan of what I need to do. And just
like I said, I think me having to earn and
every step of the way as has also benefited me
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and my mindset and it made me a better player. Yeah,
we always remember the hard, we tend to forget the easy,
so that leads us into our second quarter when it
comes to adversity and assists. And I think that no
great player, athlete, celebrity person in general becomes great without
those two things. Some adversity and assists. And when we
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talk about adversity. Some of the challenges that come up
from me with you is obviously, you know, there's a
physical element when you are an athlete injury itself, and
then there's a mental aspect of that where you get
frustrated about the injury. Last season, you were injured and
it impacts your performance and your ability to do something
you love, i e. Play the game in terms of
your mindset and your physical ability. I mean, how do
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you navigate that adversity. Yeah, for me, it's about loving
loving to work off the floor as far as getting
preparing yourself to play. For me, it's been a lot
of rehab over my career, staying patient with the rehab.
I had three surgeries now, lost a lot of time,
and like I said, I've kind of try to fall
in love with the process of getting back, locking in
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day by day to the steps and growing getting better,
and especially in offseason when I have these surgeries and
even dealing with injuries during the season, sometimes you got
to focus on doing stuff off the floor more than
working on your skill work. So yeah, I think that
the adversity did. It's tough it words and I mentally,
but it's kind of got shifting focus to the stuff
you might not love to do, but kind of fall
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in love with it and enjoy it and know it
allows you to get back on the floor and actually
do the fun part, which to play games. I've heard
you talk about real tough mindset and the ability to
dig into that. How do you bring that real tough
mindset when you are on the bench and your teammates
are on the court, Like, what does that look like externally,
especially when you're in the locker room, right, you know
you can't get on the floor and contribute. What does
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that contribution look like within that real tough mindset for
your teammates. Yeah, it's about being a professional, being a
good teammate, trying to put yourself in that position. Especially
I feel like I'm an ici Q guy and I
kind of when I'm on the floor could be a
coach on off the floor. Try to get them my
point of view helped them out in that sense. But yeah,
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you try to just just try to contribute to the
team even in any way you possibly can. For me,
like I said, just get my working off the floor
and when gametime comes or practice comes, when I can't
be on the floor, helped the team out. I'm giving
them another set of eyes and try to be in
that corner and root for him and just patiently await
for my turn to get back out on the floor.
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scope of adversity. Was there ever a time where you
had maybe an honest conversation of how tough basketball is
and that it may not be in the cards. Because
I know, as someone who got hit by a car
when I was a nine years old and the doctor
coming in and saying to my parents, you know your
daughter may never walk again. I had to have, you know,
as a kid, that internal conversation, an external conversation with
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my parents of like what do you want? You have
to decide what you want and fight for it, but
knowing that your reality isn't just walking just saying given
to you like everybody else at this point, knowing that basketball,
maybe especially with the injuries, aren't just given to you
because you physically can't do it. You have to recover,
you have to rehabilitate. Have you ever had some of
those honest conversations and how have you navigated that? Yeah,
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I mean there's definitely some doubt, especially early in my career.
Like I said, I drafted having a plan at g
LEA for two years possibly go overseas. I gave myself
a plan early in my career of I'm gonna give
myself two years to get the contract in the NBA
and play in the NBA if not going to go
overseas or work on other stuff. So for me, it's
about being realistic with myself. I feel like I always
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had good enough to play an NBA, just about getting
the opportunity and actually not in my hands. So I
can't give myself the opportunity to play in the league.
It's it's got a way somebody to give me that. So,
like I said, being honest for yourself and being patient
at the same time and hopefully things work out for
those of you that are listening, and I just got
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too excited. And I'm gonna tell you why. As someone
who is all about like practicality, routine and structure, seth
you said something to me that was like nail on
the head. It's the greatest advice you can give anyone.
You said, you put yourself on a timeline. You gave
yourself two years. I think sometimes we forget the importance
of a timeline of structure because if we just say
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we're gonna keep working at something with no finish line,
then one there's no sense of urgency. Too. We can't
identify what the goal or metric is if we haven't
set it for ourselves. And three nothing feels good no matter.
If you got into the NBA without a timeline, it
would have been like I could have got there sooner.
You know what I mean. It's because it's this could
have thing. But you did something very powerful. Is that
you establish a timeline. You gave yourself two years, and
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you worked those two years like you knew the date
was coming, the day was coming. Because you set it,
you set that metric for success, and I think that
is so important for sure. Yeah, it definitely helped me,
Like you said, I had that that finish line that
go I worked towards every every day for those two
years and if it didn't work out, and they work out,
but I knew, I'll put everything into it. So I
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think that helped me. That makes me happy. Let's talk
about an assists. We all know assist count for a lot, right,
It's not about who scored the basket. Sometimes it's about
who set up to play. Who was that assist in
your life? I would say in formative years. So let's
say before you know, like high school, like junior high,
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things like that, which we call middle school, all the
cool kids call it middle school. In those formative years,
who do you think you received the greater assist from,
Whether that was in advice, in support. And again, I
know y'all are tight knit families. It doesn't have to
be within the family. But when you think of assists
that early on, assists, who would you shout out? Man
had a lot of coaches that molded me and taught
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me the game and taught me stuff off the floor.
But I mean I always got to lean back to
my house, my parents, my mom my dad. I mean,
I mean that's the ultimate stists have just teaching me
how to do stuff the right way, whether it's in
the classroom. Like I said, my mom was an elementary
school teacher principle, and she stressed obviously academic school work
and that stuff first, and I really bled into my
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work habits as a as an athlete. You know what
I'm saying, Just take care of doing stuff the right way,
even if it doesn't work out, even don't like make
every shot that night. If you if you prepare the
right way and the long run, stuff will work out.
So I think my mom and my dad are the
ones who really built the foundation of my work habits,
my professionalism, and I think that's the ultimate sess, that
ultimate assists that leads into not only basketball with everything
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else off the floor. Oh my gosh, I'm also beaming
smiling from ear to ear before we step into halftime.
In terms of this idea of assists, who do you
think you've given I don't want to say the biggest,
but I want to say a generous assist too in
your career because oftentimes what I do in this moment
is I focus on who gave you the assists? Like,
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who have you given the assists? Too. I mean that's
tough to say. Hopefully. I might say my family as well,
but I think every day, just hopefully my teammates just
not just physically yes, and on the floor, helping them
on the floor, but I mean I promise of them
just being someone that's easy to play with. Teammates enjoy
playing with them. So I mean, I just try to
go on every day and try to be selflessen and
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be somebody that's that's like I said, just fun to
play with it. I look back on my career and
that's what all my teammates say about me. I love it.
All right. Let's go ahead and step into halftime really quick,
fun moment. It's a little bit of like this or
that rapid fire situation. So I'll call out a couple
of things, whatever comes to mind. It's a great time
to get to know you a little bit better. He ready,
let's do it, all right. So, are you a morning
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person or night person? I'm a night person, okay, seaside
or mountain side seaside. I'm not a cold weather guy,
hates snow, so seaside reading a book or listening to
a book, reading movies or TV shows. TV shows, what
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are you watching right now, right now? Oh? Well, actually
I just watched a movie which is you people. It
was Netflix movie That's a good was a good movie
Surprise Jonah Hill and Eddie Murghy and Learned London. Yes,
it was dope, good movie. I think they did a
good job at tackling like a lot of tough like
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you know, issues, but but adding perspectives. So I agree
with you. I agree with you for sure. All right.
What are you eat in the morning? Eggs and oatmeal? Wow? Okay?
Same with the breakfast things. Pancakes or waffles. There's only
one right answer, pancakes. But it has to be some
some fruit either in it or on top of it.
I knew we would get along pancakes or life. Um um.
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My last question, would you rather give the assists or
benefit from the assists on the court? Oh? Benefit from
the assists? That's what I do that I'm gonna play.
Finish it. There you go, there you go. All right,
let's set it to the third quarter, talking about basketball,
talking about your teammates. Let's talk about Brooklyn. Now. As
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the host of the Brooklyn As I Am Courtside, I
show up for the last ten seasons and I get
excited about basketball because I love basketball and I love
the Brooklyn Nets. So with that, knowing my position and
giving that energy, how do you prepare to get on
that court, knowing like the energy in Brooklyn is unique,
that the vibe is right. How do you prepare? What
does that look like before you even get to the arena,
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before you get into practice. Take us through the process
of getting up, getting ready, and getting yourself there. For me,
I'm a real I'm a routine guy. So every game day,
I'm doing that same exact thing from the moment I
wake up to game start to game starts. You know
what I'm saying. So I've done from a majority of
my career, done the same stuff. But I think the
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energy in Brooklyn, like you said, it's a little bit different,
the lights a little bit brighter, a little bit different
type of people show up, so gives you a little
bit more energy and you step on that floor. But
for me, I gotta kind of approach it like every
game is the same. Try to do the same stuff,
and whether it's a playoff game or regular season game thirty,
try to do the same thing and try to trying
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to let my mindset get too hired, too low. But
like I said, when we step on that floor in Brooklyn,
it's a little bit different. How is it when you
are coming into a team, right, Like, what is it?
What is it that we don't see that happens in
practice when you are trying to because I often to
hear especially commentators, they're like, well, they need to find
their rhythm, they need to gel. What does that tensibly
look like for those of us that don't know exactly
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what that looks like. Yeah, every player is a little
bit different. But yeah, I mean, it's just as far
as getting your rhythm gelling, it's the biggest thing. You're
just getting game type reps orhether if you're not playing
a lot, getting getting some scrimmage scrimmage time and after
practice with with whether there's other guys who're not playing
a lot or some coaches. But the biggest thing, you're
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just getting those reps in on the floor, getting your
feet wet and live game action, and that's that's the
best way to get your rhythm. How do you We
talked about earlier you being of that and how your
contribution when we were talking about that adversity, the contribution
that you offer your teammates when you can't be there
on the court. When you think of kind of the
young guys, right like cam Darron Edmond, Like, when you
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think of the young guys are what are the words
that you're sharing with them even if they don't even
touch the rock for a while. Yeah, I'm sharing with
them just to be patient, Be patient, continue to work
on your game. Your time. I won't think I always
know about the NBA. Your time is gonna come. It's
just a matter if you're ready for it or not.
So those guys have been doing a great job working.
They love the game, they love to play, They obviously
very talented, and they're gonna help us many times throughout
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this season. But yeah, as far as myself being a veteran,
I'm a perfect guy for that because I've been in
their shoes. I've been d League, getting caught up, sat
on the bench for multiple games, being a starter. So
just trying to be positive with them, tell them to
stay ready even the times when they're frustrated, and trying
to be in their corner and give them some positive energy.
Speaking of those transitions, when you're talking about being on
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the bench, being in the g League, like all of
these things, How do you check your ego? Because I
can tell you right now for me, like even as
a Pelton instructor and even as the host of the
Brooklyn ass you know, you put so much work in
time and energy, in and tenure into an organization or
into a craft itself no matter where you play, that
it can't feel, you know, like a bruce to the
ego when it's like, well, I gotta sign on the
bench or I gotta like there's a regression that occurs,
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whether it's beneficial or not. In the moment, it's hard
to see the benefit. So sometimes my ego does get
the best of me, and I gotta check it. And
most times I'm gonna be honest, like the folks around
me really do check it because it's hard to check myself.
But how do you handle that? Like, how do you
handle those moments? Being's a balance? You want to have
that ego, You want to have pride in what you do.
Obviously you wouldn't be in the position you are and
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or us in the NBA if you weren't very confident
in yourself. How that ego and pride and no, you're
very good at what you do, but at the same time,
you got to be humble and continue to work at
your craft and when that time comes to be competitive
and like make the most of your opportunity. So, especially
in the NBA, it's a lot of guys who who
overly confident. But I mean that's part of it, and
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that's what that's why they end a position they are
How do you deal with that in terms of the
over confidence because I can imagine some of the plays
we see them vocal on the court, not just in Brooklyn,
but just in the NBA. And as another player, I'm
always wondering, how do y'all handle that? Uh, I mean
it's a lot of you just it's competition. That's every
day is the competition in the league. Um, you got
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to use that shout chandling in the right way. That's
that's That's pretty much all it is. I mean channeling
as far as is being your best self to use
it to to work on your game and know that
I keep saying when your opportunity comes, to make the
most of it. So a lot of times that that
confidence is a good thing. Who do you think is
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one of the most overly confident players that you've ever
played with for good, Like, I don't think confidence is
a bad thing. It's tough to say. That's tough to say.
I mean, I'll say ninety percent of the guys in
the league are over confidence. But that's I keep saying,
that's why the hood or that that's what makes the
NBA the NBA. But how do you deal with I
hear sometimes like I'm close to the court and I
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could hear some of the conversations and I'm thinking my
head if somebody said that to me, like I just
couldn't brush it off. How do you just like you
are so cool with it, like y'all, it'll be a
little few words past, but they're they're pretty they're pretty
spicy words, yea. And then you just fine, like you're
just like okay, and then you like dap them up later,
like yeah, that's high level sports. Some of the stuff,
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A lot of stuff. Who you are on the floor,
something you say on the floor you obviously don't mean.
And some guys morph into a different character when they
need to get on the floor. That's who they need
to be to play and play well. So I mean,
you know that, like you can be ultimate competitive to
be nasty on the floor, but as soon as the
game over, you can go back to being friends and
being a cool as a cucumber. So what I just
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heard Seth Curry say is that the NBA players are
similar to Beyonce. Off the court, they're Beyonce and on
the court they're Sasha Fears mix total. So many of us, now,
look at that we just threw. We just casted a
wide net for people to understand what's going on in
this podcast. You said it way better than me. That
was good. You can keep that one. You can you
can have that one, just you know, give me credit.
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But when you talk, when you're with the vets of
the team and y'all are talking business, right, you're just like,
this is how we're gonna move, this is what needs
to happen before we step on that corps. Who takes
the lead in those conversations or is it just always equal?
Like do you is there somebody on our team that's
a little bit more vocal than others? Like how does
that look? Paint that picture for us? For this team,
it's more of like a Honestly, the leadership is by committity.
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Everybody's doing it together. I think, But we have a
lot of veterans on this team, Like you said, so,
I think everybody knows. Everybody's been through the ringer. No,
it's knows what the NBA is about, and it's about
not getting too how not getting too low. And for us,
we let the coaches do that job as far as
leading us in and in the locker room, we do
it together. How's the change a coach? Like? When you
have to change a coach, like, that's that's a big
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moment because that's you know, pinnacle leadership. You see that
that means there's a shift externally in the organization that
affects you internally within the team and the scope of
the team. What does that conversation look like when that
change happened and you come into practice and it's just
like obviously a familiar face with Jack Von, But like,
what's the conversation? Like, I think everybody knew we needed
a change up, not necessarily a different coach, but we
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needed something to change in the locker room. And Jock
was a guy obviously we knew, and he came in
with a different mentality, a different mindset. And anytime you
change coaches, you're gonna get a little bit of jolt
of energy, not saying any better or worse when we
had before, but I think that adult of energy that's
rolling around each other in the locker room helped us
out and it showed on the floor. What's Jock's energy like,
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like Jock Vone's energy is like what You're a competitive
more and more of a motivational speech kind of guy,
and than Steve was, but really competitive. Obviously played in
the league as well, so he knows what we're going
through and through the play you can see he's doing
a great job and everybody's just leaving on the floor. Form.
Is there anything that he said that just kind of
like stuck with you because sometimes you know, people say
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things that you're just like thought provoking. You're like, huh,
I'm listening to this person talk, or I've been in
this scenario for ten years. But that's an interesting point
of view. It's hard to say specifically one thing that
he said, but you can just tell um because I
kind of I knew watching the game growing up, by
watching him as a player, they knew who it was
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and that same type of feisty mentality. He was the
guy who was picking up ninety four feet and pastor
and guys all for that same type of mentality. What
he brings the coaching so I can see the type
of player he was. All right, before we go into
the fourth quarter and wrap up. I have to ask
you this because I'm always right next to the huddle,
right player lineup? What are y'all saying in that huddle?
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Because sometimes I just want to really walk close, But
that's mad disrespectful. So what are y'all saying? Tell me?
I think, like I said, we're leading by community, So
everybody it's always something different every huddle before the game,
somebody else are different. That's speaking okay, but there's always
it's a quick line or two, just hyping the guy's up.
Tell him what a couple of points that we need
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to remember for that night, and let's go to work.
That's pretty much it. What's y'all telling Nicking back there?
Because you know he cut his hair off, you know
got I mean percentage wise, he's bringing its doing very well.
What are y'all telling him? You don't really need to
tell Clacks anything. He's he's ready to go. Every night
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he's fights these fiery He's one of the most competitive
guys I've ever played with, So I'm going to work
with Clacks right now. He's locked in on both sides
of the floor. Obviously, hopefully he gets in that defensive
Player of the Year mixing. Yeah, continue to do what
he's doing. I have to say, I do love him
with a chip on his shoulder. I can see that
sense of urgency when he's in the game. I can
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see that focus, and as a fan, as somebody who's
a part of the organization, it makes me proud. I
don't know, like I know that doesn't mean much, but
as someone who sees the all home games, it's I'm
proud to see a player evolved in to what he
said before. It's like, you know you earn it, but
you also want some respect about it. Yet you talk
about adversity. He's a guy. When I got traded here
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last year, he was the first probably ten games, he
wasn't getting a lot of run at all. So he
got that chip on his shoulder then and ever since
he got back in the lineup and coming into this year,
he's played with that edge that I could tell he
got for the middle of last season. I love it
all right, let's roll into the fourth and final quarter
and in with the w As you look up the
scope of what you've done, what would you say are
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some of your most proud accomplishments so far? I think,
I mean, it's one of my most proud accomplishments, probably
just being in the position I am now. I think
a lot of adversity was stacked against me from the
beginning of my college career to my NBA career that
staying consistent and doing what I do the right way.
So I think just being a professional and I think
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that's one of the most most things I'm proud of
and just trying to keep it going. In terms of
some of the younger I'm sure some of the young
folks who have that at those aspirations of becoming an
NBA player and athlete in their own right will tune in.
What is some of your advice that you would give them.
To be honest with yourself as far as who you
are as a player As a part, I think just
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selfie evaluation is the biggest thing. Figure out what you
do well and master that. For me, I was obviously
just shooting the ball, being existing, knockdown shooting and building
off of that. But I mean, that's the biggest piece
of advice I would give them, And obviously just consistently
work hard at your craft and get a routine. What
are you working on right now in terms of like
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your season goals, your mentality. When it comes to your
personal goals, what are those for the near future, Like
right whether it's season end, whether it's summertime, when you
know you're in what does that look like for you?
For me right now is just staying on top of
my body, my conditioning, being strong, especially towards the end
of the season. NBA's a long season and obviously deal
with some injuries over the last last end of last
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year and over the summer. So I think it's the
season goes a long, getting stronger, getting better, getting better shaping.
That's my focus right now. Obviously got to keep the
skills sharp, but right now it's kind of sacrificing, which
it's tough for sacrificing some time on the floor to
go into the weight room and do a little bit more.
Y'all have a family chat, I assume got a couple
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of them. Yeah, a couple of them was in the
last text MUS to send in a family chat. What
was it about oh said some stuff I can't disclose,
but I think the last one. I think the last
one was, uh, some one of our close friend's birthday,
so everybody was sending in funny, funny videos about them.
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And there's some good one step and steps in a
funny one, so that I was. I think that's the
last one that was sitting last night. I love that,
all right. My last question is, most times we hear
this question is what would you tell your younger self?
What I've come to realize as an adult is that
my younger self was pretty dope, and that she was
very much more resilient and I would say aware than
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I ever gave her credit for. And we often forget
that when you know your father, like with kids, right,
you forget how smart they are and how strong they are.
And we often kind of play this question of yeah,
what would we tell our younger selves? But giving our
younger self credit and giving your younger self credit, understanding
that adversity, understanding things that was said against you like
you said, and having to carve your own path. What's
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the advice you think you're young young Seth would give
Seth today, I think just even tell them just teem
to be confident in yourself who you are enough, be
confident in your own skin, and be confident in yourself.
Don't go pay yourself to your left or anybody till
left to anybody to your right, but just keep forward
on what you're doing and you'll be all right. Well,
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on that note, I want to say thank you so
much for taking a court tight seat and definitely sharing
all four quarters of what we would call definitely a
winning game of your life. So there's much more life
to live and much more of you to watch on
the court, which I'm excited about, we're excited about. So
thank you so much, absolutely thank you for having appreciate it.
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It's your girl, Alie Love. Welcome to courtside Converse station
now wearing number thirty for your Brooklyn Nets. Seth is
a ten year NBA vetting and one of the best
three point sharpshooters of all time. Taking a courtside with
me to hit this seat, Seth Curry, Seth, what's up? Hey,
what's going on? How are you doing? I'm so excited.
I'm thrilled that you are here. We can have this conversation.
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I know you were supposed to have an off day,
so you're actually fresh off of practice. They called an
audible on you, so we appreciate your time. Yeah, you
gotta be adaptable, you know, so fresh how to practice
a little tired, But let's do it all right, So
let's let's go ahead it and step into quartside conversation
where we talk about the game of life and we
tee it up in Q one. Now I can imagine
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growing up in the Curry household. Y'all are very passionate
and competitive people. I think that goes without saying. Anyone
who knows y'all hear interviews over the last few years.
We all are some takeaways when it comes to non competition,
Like take us into the household of growing up, where
it wasn't about a game, there was no competition. What
was the scope of your family Like on a day
where you had quote unquote nothing going on, it was
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always some competition. Somebody were finding something to get into. Yeah,
well there was a video games BOYD game, something was
going on in the house. But outside of that, My
mom was a elementary school principal growing up, so she
was big honest about the academics, getting our school work
and stuff like that done before getting to the athletics.
So kind of a well round the household, very discipline,
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but like I said, always back to the competitiveness and
and trying to have fun. Yeah, what did you get
in trouble for the most growing up? Because I feel
like for me, I would always go get in trouble
because as a little kid, I just walked out the
front door. I had no sense of safety, and I
always wanted to go in the neighborhood and play with
the kids, and I wouldn't even tell anyone. I just
walk out the front door. For me, it was always
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it was always something. My other two my siblings never
really got in trouble. For me, it was something every day.
So probably the main thing was talking back. I had
a smart mouth, they said growing up. So that was
what my mom was always on me about. Did you
talk back to your dad and your mom equally one
of them got it more than the other. I'll say
my mom got it more than my dad. My dad,
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more like me, kind of laid back now, so he
wasn't really on me too much. My mom was on
one always around who was who was laying the law down?
Do you still talk back or have you learned your lesson?
I learned my lesson now I grew up a little
bit and learned to show a little bit more respect.
What's that one game? I think every family has one
game that is off limits because it causes too much
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family conflict. Like I don't care how competitive or non
competitive you are, there's one game you cannot play. Whether
it's red light, green Light, whether it's hide and seek,
whether it's in my household, Monopoly, where I think just
center a wedge between the family. What's that game for
y'all that's just off limits to this day? Yeah, I
was gonna stop it right there. Monopoly, that's the one
that's the one, because it's always some bad deal, some
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bad trades going down that somebody has an objection to
and it can end the game. So I don't know
what's going on behind behind the scenes, but I feel
like it's always some collusion going on against me that's
trying to help me, made me not win. You know
what's funny, That's the first word that came to my
mind if I think of my family is like collusion.
Who would a collude? Who are the colluders in your family? Like?
Who teams up every time I was probably my sister
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and my mom they yeah, everywhere close and they they're
always trying to team up. But I feel like it
always against me to stop me from winning. But that's
just from my point of view. Now we think of family,
one of the things that comes to mine are like
great takeaways. One of the things my mom used to
say growing up all the time, because I used to
get nervous, like as a dancer or going into a
new school, like when it was anything novel or new.
She was always saying, you know, you gotta fake it
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till you make it, in the sense of not to
be a fake person, but dress how you want to
be perceived, right, play that part dress if you want
to be the ballerina, dressed like a ballerina. You know,
like kind of fake it till you make it. Was
there one of the takeaways that you hold near and
dear now to your heart that comes from that child
those childhood moments. I mean, it's so many, but I
think just the biggest thing I remember from growing up
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my dad played in the NBA for a long time,
and him just trying to bring us around the gym
into practices and watching work as much as possible. I
feel like those times where Hows with me and my
brother both were just soaking up so much knowledge just
from watching him and watching his teammates work without even
knowing it. So I think looking back onto those those times,
it's soaking in the knowledge, learning so much about not
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only basketball, just perfecting your craft or whatever whatever it
was we were going to go into allow us to
be professionals we are today. As a kid, I mean,
we all can imagine the upside and takeaways of having
a father in the NBA, having an athletic family in general,
because you get not only the physical side of it, right,
you get tools from there, but also the mental side
of it. But what were frustrating points about that? Because
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I think sometimes everyone looks at people that are in
the limelight with a small aperture of like you had
it easy. You had it. You know it was handed
to you, but it wasn't because you had to work
for it, and it wasn't always fun. What were those
not fun moments growing up, even given the access that
you did have. For me, I kind of had double
trouble because my father who played in the NBA, then
I'm younger to add an order obviously steph older brother
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who was in the league before me and kind of
got the spotlight. So for me, I feel like it
was just some expectations always there, people thinking out play
in a certain way, like my father or should be
doing this, so kind of high expectations of who I
should be without actually watching me playing or watching me
do what I do. So trying to live up to
those expectations and trying to just be comfortable in my
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own skin and be who I am as a person,
as a player, and that's something I'll just continue to
grow in and work on being the best for me
I could possibly be without comparing myself to those guys.
Was there ever a moment where it was I kind
of a turning point, because I can imagine as a
kid being compared to my cousins. It's just like, it's
tough being compared to anyone, especially someone that you love,
especially by the outside world when they don't know anything
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in a sense or they don't have access to really
what's going on. But was there ever a turning point
where you're just like, you know what I'm gonna I'm
gonna care, but I'm not gonna care as much and
it's not gonna affect me as much. It's kind of
a gradual process of just getting better at it, and
like I said, just being my own person, running my
own race. I think one point was probably being just
being undrafted. So obviously my dad was drafting, my brother
was drafted first round in the NBA, and myself going
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through some adversity and not being drafted and trying to
create my own path to where I want to be
in and make it to the league, having to earn
my keep every step of the way. So I think,
just like I said, those expectations of you should be this,
you should be getting drafted, but actually just sticking to
my plan of what I need to do. And just
like I said, I think me having to earn and
every step of the way as has also benefited me
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and my mindset and it made me a better player. Yeah,
we always remember the hard, we tend to forget the easy,
so that leads us into our second quarter when it
comes to adversity and assists. And I think that no
great player, athlete, celebrity person in general becomes great without
those two things. Some adversity and assists. And when we
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talk about adversity. Some of the challenges that come up
from me with you is obviously, you know, there's a
physical element when you are an athlete injury itself, and
then there's a mental aspect of that where you get
frustrated about the injury. Last season, you were injured and
it impacts your performance and your ability to do something
you love, i e. Play the game in terms of
your mindset and your physical ability. I mean, how do
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you navigate that adversity. Yeah, for me, it's about loving
loving to work off the floor as far as getting
preparing yourself to play. For me, it's been a lot
of rehab over my career, staying patient with the rehab.
I had three surgeries now, lost a lot of time,
and like I said, I've kind of try to fall
in love with the process of getting back, locking in
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day by day to the steps and growing getting better,
and especially in offseason when I have these surgeries and
even dealing with injuries during the season, sometimes you got
to focus on doing stuff off the floor more than
working on your skill work. So yeah, I think that
the adversity did. It's tough it words and I mentally,
but it's kind of got shifting focus to the stuff
you might not love to do, but kind of fall
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in love with it and enjoy it and know it
allows you to get back on the floor and actually
do the fun part, which to play games. I've heard
you talk about real tough mindset and the ability to
dig into that. How do you bring that real tough
mindset when you are on the bench and your teammates
are on the court, Like, what does that look like externally,
especially when you're in the locker room, right, you know
you can't get on the floor and contribute. What does
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that contribution look like within that real tough mindset for
your teammates. Yeah, it's about being a professional, being a
good teammate, trying to put yourself in that position. Especially
I feel like I'm an ici Q guy and I
kind of when I'm on the floor could be a
coach on off the floor. Try to get them my
point of view helped them out in that sense. But yeah,
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you try to just just try to contribute to the
team even in any way you possibly can. For me,
like I said, just get my working off the floor
and when gametime comes or practice comes, when I can't
be on the floor, helped the team out. I'm giving
them another set of eyes and try to be in
that corner and root for him and just patiently await
for my turn to get back out on the floor.
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scope of adversity. Was there ever a time where you
had maybe an honest conversation of how tough basketball is
and that it may not be in the cards. Because
I know, as someone who got hit by a car
when I was a nine years old and the doctor
coming in and saying to my parents, you know your
daughter may never walk again. I had to have, you know,
as a kid, that internal conversation, an external conversation with
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my parents of like what do you want? You have
to decide what you want and fight for it, but
knowing that your reality isn't just walking just saying given
to you like everybody else at this point, knowing that basketball,
maybe especially with the injuries, aren't just given to you
because you physically can't do it. You have to recover,
you have to rehabilitate. Have you ever had some of
those honest conversations and how have you navigated that? Yeah,
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I mean there's definitely some doubt, especially early in my career.
Like I said, I drafted having a plan at g
LEA for two years possibly go overseas. I gave myself
a plan early in my career of I'm gonna give
myself two years to get the contract in the NBA
and play in the NBA if not going to go
overseas or work on other stuff. So for me, it's
about being realistic with myself. I feel like I always
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had good enough to play an NBA, just about getting
the opportunity and actually not in my hands. So I
can't give myself the opportunity to play in the league.
It's it's got a way somebody to give me that. So,
like I said, being honest for yourself and being patient
at the same time and hopefully things work out for
those of you that are listening, and I just got
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too excited. And I'm gonna tell you why. As someone
who is all about like practicality, routine and structure, seth
you said something to me that was like nail on
the head. It's the greatest advice you can give anyone.
You said, you put yourself on a timeline. You gave
yourself two years. I think sometimes we forget the importance
of a timeline of structure because if we just say
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we're gonna keep working at something with no finish line,
then one there's no sense of urgency. Too. We can't
identify what the goal or metric is if we haven't
set it for ourselves. And three nothing feels good no matter.
If you got into the NBA without a timeline, it
would have been like I could have got there sooner.
You know what I mean. It's because it's this could
have thing. But you did something very powerful. Is that
you establish a timeline. You gave yourself two years, and
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you worked those two years like you knew the date
was coming, the day was coming. Because you set it,
you set that metric for success, and I think that
is so important for sure. Yeah, it definitely helped me,
Like you said, I had that that finish line that
go I worked towards every every day for those two
years and if it didn't work out, and they work out,
but I knew, I'll put everything into it. So I
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think that helped me. That makes me happy. Let's talk
about an assists. We all know assist count for a lot, right,
It's not about who scored the basket. Sometimes it's about
who set up to play. Who was that assist in
your life? I would say in formative years. So let's
say before you know, like high school, like junior high,
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things like that, which we call middle school, all the
cool kids call it middle school. In those formative years,
who do you think you received the greater assist from,
Whether that was in advice, in support. And again, I
know y'all are tight knit families. It doesn't have to
be within the family. But when you think of assists
that early on, assists, who would you shout out? Man
had a lot of coaches that molded me and taught
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me the game and taught me stuff off the floor.
But I mean I always got to lean back to
my house, my parents, my mom my dad. I mean,
I mean that's the ultimate stists have just teaching me
how to do stuff the right way, whether it's in
the classroom. Like I said, my mom was an elementary
school teacher principle, and she stressed obviously academic school work
and that stuff first, and I really bled into my
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work habits as a as an athlete. You know what
I'm saying, Just take care of doing stuff the right way,
even if it doesn't work out, even don't like make
every shot that night. If you if you prepare the
right way and the long run, stuff will work out.
So I think my mom and my dad are the
ones who really built the foundation of my work habits,
my professionalism, and I think that's the ultimate sess, that
ultimate assists that leads into not only basketball with everything
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else off the floor. Oh my gosh, I'm also beaming
smiling from ear to ear before we step into halftime.
In terms of this idea of assists, who do you
think you've given I don't want to say the biggest,
but I want to say a generous assist too in
your career because oftentimes what I do in this moment
is I focus on who gave you the assists? Like,
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who have you given the assists? Too. I mean that's
tough to say. Hopefully. I might say my family as well,
but I think every day, just hopefully my teammates just
not just physically yes, and on the floor, helping them
on the floor, but I mean I promise of them
just being someone that's easy to play with. Teammates enjoy
playing with them. So I mean, I just try to
go on every day and try to be selflessen and
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be somebody that's that's like I said, just fun to
play with it. I look back on my career and
that's what all my teammates say about me. I love it.
All right. Let's go ahead and step into halftime really quick,
fun moment. It's a little bit of like this or
that rapid fire situation. So I'll call out a couple
of things, whatever comes to mind. It's a great time
to get to know you a little bit better. He ready,
let's do it, all right. So, are you a morning
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person or night person? I'm a night person, okay, seaside
or mountain side seaside. I'm not a cold weather guy,
hates snow, so seaside reading a book or listening to
a book, reading movies or TV shows. TV shows, what
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are you watching right now, right now? Oh? Well, actually
I just watched a movie which is you people. It
was Netflix movie That's a good was a good movie
Surprise Jonah Hill and Eddie Murghy and Learned London. Yes,
it was dope, good movie. I think they did a
good job at tackling like a lot of tough like
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you know, issues, but but adding perspectives. So I agree
with you. I agree with you for sure. All right.
What are you eat in the morning? Eggs and oatmeal? Wow? Okay?
Same with the breakfast things. Pancakes or waffles. There's only
one right answer, pancakes. But it has to be some
some fruit either in it or on top of it.
I knew we would get along pancakes or life. Um um.
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My last question, would you rather give the assists or
benefit from the assists on the court? Oh? Benefit from
the assists? That's what I do that I'm gonna play.
Finish it. There you go, there you go. All right,
let's set it to the third quarter, talking about basketball,
talking about your teammates. Let's talk about Brooklyn. Now. As
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the host of the Brooklyn As I Am Courtside, I
show up for the last ten seasons and I get
excited about basketball because I love basketball and I love
the Brooklyn Nets. So with that, knowing my position and
giving that energy, how do you prepare to get on
that court, knowing like the energy in Brooklyn is unique,
that the vibe is right. How do you prepare? What
does that look like before you even get to the arena,
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before you get into practice. Take us through the process
of getting up, getting ready, and getting yourself there. For me,
I'm a real I'm a routine guy. So every game day,
I'm doing that same exact thing from the moment I
wake up to game start to game starts. You know
what I'm saying. So I've done from a majority of
my career, done the same stuff. But I think the
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energy in Brooklyn, like you said, it's a little bit different,
the lights a little bit brighter, a little bit different
type of people show up, so gives you a little
bit more energy and you step on that floor. But
for me, I gotta kind of approach it like every
game is the same. Try to do the same stuff,
and whether it's a playoff game or regular season game thirty,
try to do the same thing and try to trying
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to let my mindset get too hired, too low. But
like I said, when we step on that floor in Brooklyn,
it's a little bit different. How is it when you
are coming into a team, right, Like, what is it?
What is it that we don't see that happens in
practice when you are trying to because I often to
hear especially commentators, they're like, well, they need to find
their rhythm, they need to gel. What does that tensibly
look like for those of us that don't know exactly
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what that looks like. Yeah, every player is a little
bit different. But yeah, I mean, it's just as far
as getting your rhythm gelling, it's the biggest thing. You're
just getting game type reps orhether if you're not playing
a lot, getting getting some scrimmage scrimmage time and after
practice with with whether there's other guys who're not playing
a lot or some coaches. But the biggest thing, you're
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just getting those reps in on the floor, getting your
feet wet and live game action, and that's that's the
best way to get your rhythm. How do you We
talked about earlier you being of that and how your
contribution when we were talking about that adversity, the contribution
that you offer your teammates when you can't be there
on the court. When you think of kind of the
young guys, right like cam Darron Edmond, Like, when you
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think of the young guys are what are the words
that you're sharing with them even if they don't even
touch the rock for a while. Yeah, I'm sharing with
them just to be patient, Be patient, continue to work
on your game. Your time. I won't think I always
know about the NBA. Your time is gonna come. It's
just a matter if you're ready for it or not.
So those guys have been doing a great job working.
They love the game, they love to play, They obviously
very talented, and they're gonna help us many times throughout
(19:26):
this season. But yeah, as far as myself being a veteran,
I'm a perfect guy for that because I've been in
their shoes. I've been d League, getting caught up, sat
on the bench for multiple games, being a starter. So
just trying to be positive with them, tell them to
stay ready even the times when they're frustrated, and trying
to be in their corner and give them some positive energy.
Speaking of those transitions, when you're talking about being on
(19:48):
the bench, being in the g League, like all of
these things, How do you check your ego? Because I
can tell you right now for me, like even as
a Pelton instructor and even as the host of the
Brooklyn ass you know, you put so much work in
time and energy, in and tenure into an organization or
into a craft itself no matter where you play, that
it can't feel, you know, like a bruce to the
ego when it's like, well, I gotta sign on the
bench or I gotta like there's a regression that occurs,
(20:11):
whether it's beneficial or not. In the moment, it's hard
to see the benefit. So sometimes my ego does get
the best of me, and I gotta check it. And
most times I'm gonna be honest, like the folks around
me really do check it because it's hard to check myself.
But how do you handle that? Like, how do you
handle those moments? Being's a balance? You want to have
that ego, You want to have pride in what you do.
Obviously you wouldn't be in the position you are and
(20:32):
or us in the NBA if you weren't very confident
in yourself. How that ego and pride and no, you're
very good at what you do, but at the same time,
you got to be humble and continue to work at
your craft and when that time comes to be competitive
and like make the most of your opportunity. So, especially
in the NBA, it's a lot of guys who who
overly confident. But I mean that's part of it, and
(20:53):
that's what that's why they end a position they are
How do you deal with that in terms of the
over confidence because I can imagine some of the plays
we see them vocal on the court, not just in Brooklyn,
but just in the NBA. And as another player, I'm
always wondering, how do y'all handle that? Uh, I mean
it's a lot of you just it's competition. That's every
day is the competition in the league. Um, you got
(21:15):
to use that shout chandling in the right way. That's
that's That's pretty much all it is. I mean channeling
as far as is being your best self to use
it to to work on your game and know that
I keep saying when your opportunity comes, to make the
most of it. So a lot of times that that
confidence is a good thing. Who do you think is
(21:36):
one of the most overly confident players that you've ever
played with for good, Like, I don't think confidence is
a bad thing. It's tough to say. That's tough to say.
I mean, I'll say ninety percent of the guys in
the league are over confidence. But that's I keep saying,
that's why the hood or that that's what makes the
NBA the NBA. But how do you deal with I
hear sometimes like I'm close to the court and I
(21:57):
could hear some of the conversations and I'm thinking my
head if somebody said that to me, like I just
couldn't brush it off. How do you just like you
are so cool with it, like y'all, it'll be a
little few words past, but they're they're pretty they're pretty
spicy words, yea. And then you just fine, like you're
just like okay, and then you like dap them up later,
like yeah, that's high level sports. Some of the stuff,
(22:19):
A lot of stuff. Who you are on the floor,
something you say on the floor you obviously don't mean.
And some guys morph into a different character when they
need to get on the floor. That's who they need
to be to play and play well. So I mean,
you know that, like you can be ultimate competitive to
be nasty on the floor, but as soon as the
game over, you can go back to being friends and
being a cool as a cucumber. So what I just
(22:40):
heard Seth Curry say is that the NBA players are
similar to Beyonce. Off the court, they're Beyonce and on
the court they're Sasha Fears mix total. So many of us, now,
look at that we just threw. We just casted a
wide net for people to understand what's going on in
this podcast. You said it way better than me. That
was good. You can keep that one. You can you
can have that one, just you know, give me credit.
(23:01):
But when you talk, when you're with the vets of
the team and y'all are talking business, right, you're just like,
this is how we're gonna move, this is what needs
to happen before we step on that corps. Who takes
the lead in those conversations or is it just always equal?
Like do you is there somebody on our team that's
a little bit more vocal than others? Like how does
that look? Paint that picture for us? For this team,
it's more of like a Honestly, the leadership is by committity.
(23:24):
Everybody's doing it together. I think, But we have a
lot of veterans on this team, Like you said, so,
I think everybody knows. Everybody's been through the ringer. No,
it's knows what the NBA is about, and it's about
not getting too how not getting too low. And for us,
we let the coaches do that job as far as
leading us in and in the locker room, we do
it together. How's the change a coach? Like? When you
have to change a coach, like, that's that's a big
(23:45):
moment because that's you know, pinnacle leadership. You see that
that means there's a shift externally in the organization that
affects you internally within the team and the scope of
the team. What does that conversation look like when that
change happened and you come into practice and it's just
like obviously a familiar face with Jack Von, But like,
what's the conversation? Like, I think everybody knew we needed
a change up, not necessarily a different coach, but we
(24:08):
needed something to change in the locker room. And Jock
was a guy obviously we knew, and he came in
with a different mentality, a different mindset. And anytime you
change coaches, you're gonna get a little bit of jolt
of energy, not saying any better or worse when we
had before, but I think that adult of energy that's
rolling around each other in the locker room helped us
out and it showed on the floor. What's Jock's energy like,
(24:30):
like Jock Vone's energy is like what You're a competitive
more and more of a motivational speech kind of guy,
and than Steve was, but really competitive. Obviously played in
the league as well, so he knows what we're going
through and through the play you can see he's doing
a great job and everybody's just leaving on the floor. Form.
Is there anything that he said that just kind of
like stuck with you because sometimes you know, people say
(24:51):
things that you're just like thought provoking. You're like, huh,
I'm listening to this person talk, or I've been in
this scenario for ten years. But that's an interesting point
of view. It's hard to say specifically one thing that
he said, but you can just tell um because I
kind of I knew watching the game growing up, by
watching him as a player, they knew who it was
(25:11):
and that same type of feisty mentality. He was the
guy who was picking up ninety four feet and pastor
and guys all for that same type of mentality. What
he brings the coaching so I can see the type
of player he was. All right, before we go into
the fourth quarter and wrap up. I have to ask
you this because I'm always right next to the huddle,
right player lineup? What are y'all saying in that huddle?
(25:32):
Because sometimes I just want to really walk close, But
that's mad disrespectful. So what are y'all saying? Tell me?
I think, like I said, we're leading by community, So
everybody it's always something different every huddle before the game,
somebody else are different. That's speaking okay, but there's always
it's a quick line or two, just hyping the guy's up.
Tell him what a couple of points that we need
(25:54):
to remember for that night, and let's go to work.
That's pretty much it. What's y'all telling Nicking back there?
Because you know he cut his hair off, you know
got I mean percentage wise, he's bringing its doing very well.
What are y'all telling him? You don't really need to
tell Clacks anything. He's he's ready to go. Every night
(26:15):
he's fights these fiery He's one of the most competitive
guys I've ever played with, So I'm going to work
with Clacks right now. He's locked in on both sides
of the floor. Obviously, hopefully he gets in that defensive
Player of the Year mixing. Yeah, continue to do what
he's doing. I have to say, I do love him
with a chip on his shoulder. I can see that
sense of urgency when he's in the game. I can
(26:35):
see that focus, and as a fan, as somebody who's
a part of the organization, it makes me proud. I
don't know, like I know that doesn't mean much, but
as someone who sees the all home games, it's I'm
proud to see a player evolved in to what he
said before. It's like, you know you earn it, but
you also want some respect about it. Yet you talk
about adversity. He's a guy. When I got traded here
(26:56):
last year, he was the first probably ten games, he
wasn't getting a lot of run at all. So he
got that chip on his shoulder then and ever since
he got back in the lineup and coming into this year,
he's played with that edge that I could tell he
got for the middle of last season. I love it
all right, let's roll into the fourth and final quarter
and in with the w As you look up the
scope of what you've done, what would you say are
(27:18):
some of your most proud accomplishments so far? I think,
I mean, it's one of my most proud accomplishments, probably
just being in the position I am now. I think
a lot of adversity was stacked against me from the
beginning of my college career to my NBA career that
staying consistent and doing what I do the right way.
So I think just being a professional and I think
(27:39):
that's one of the most most things I'm proud of
and just trying to keep it going. In terms of
some of the younger I'm sure some of the young
folks who have that at those aspirations of becoming an
NBA player and athlete in their own right will tune in.
What is some of your advice that you would give them.
To be honest with yourself as far as who you
are as a player As a part, I think just
(27:59):
selfie evaluation is the biggest thing. Figure out what you
do well and master that. For me, I was obviously
just shooting the ball, being existing, knockdown shooting and building
off of that. But I mean, that's the biggest piece
of advice I would give them, And obviously just consistently
work hard at your craft and get a routine. What
are you working on right now in terms of like
(28:20):
your season goals, your mentality. When it comes to your
personal goals, what are those for the near future, Like
right whether it's season end, whether it's summertime, when you
know you're in what does that look like for you?
For me right now is just staying on top of
my body, my conditioning, being strong, especially towards the end
of the season. NBA's a long season and obviously deal
with some injuries over the last last end of last
(28:42):
year and over the summer. So I think it's the
season goes a long, getting stronger, getting better, getting better shaping.
That's my focus right now. Obviously got to keep the
skills sharp, but right now it's kind of sacrificing, which
it's tough for sacrificing some time on the floor to
go into the weight room and do a little bit more.
Y'all have a family chat, I assume got a couple
(29:02):
of them. Yeah, a couple of them was in the
last text MUS to send in a family chat. What
was it about oh said some stuff I can't disclose,
but I think the last one. I think the last
one was, uh, some one of our close friend's birthday,
so everybody was sending in funny, funny videos about them.
(29:24):
And there's some good one step and steps in a
funny one, so that I was. I think that's the
last one that was sitting last night. I love that,
all right. My last question is, most times we hear
this question is what would you tell your younger self?
What I've come to realize as an adult is that
my younger self was pretty dope, and that she was
very much more resilient and I would say aware than
(29:46):
I ever gave her credit for. And we often forget
that when you know your father, like with kids, right,
you forget how smart they are and how strong they are.
And we often kind of play this question of yeah,
what would we tell our younger selves? But giving our
younger self credit and giving your younger self credit, understanding
that adversity, understanding things that was said against you like
you said, and having to carve your own path. What's
(30:09):
the advice you think you're young young Seth would give
Seth today, I think just even tell them just teem
to be confident in yourself who you are enough, be
confident in your own skin, and be confident in yourself.
Don't go pay yourself to your left or anybody till
left to anybody to your right, but just keep forward
on what you're doing and you'll be all right. Well,
(30:32):
on that note, I want to say thank you so
much for taking a court tight seat and definitely sharing
all four quarters of what we would call definitely a
winning game of your life. So there's much more life
to live and much more of you to watch on
the court, which I'm excited about, we're excited about. So
thank you so much, absolutely thank you for having appreciate it.
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