May 6, 2025 • 46 mins
Israel chronicles all of the details of the legendary 73-win Warriors season including the origin of the "Double Bang" call on Steph Curry's incredible game-winner vs. OKC with Mike Breen himself, Steve Kerr talks about how he battled complications from back surgery, and we get the background on the team's decision to push for the regular season wins record despite dealing with injuries. We also get a deep dive into the epic WCF series with the Thunder when Game 6 Klay was born and the excitement of facing LeBron James and the healthy Cavaliers in the 2016 NBA Finals.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Dubb Dynasty is a production of iHeartMedia and the NBA.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
They do have a time out, decide not to use
a Curry wait on top with six steps of second
the morning, we'll polly join a touchdowns, beat the.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Clock from midport, Curry Hey back home, no file speaking
for Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I had to Curry.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Curry sets fire, puts up back, Steph Curry home way.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Down from mid courtway.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Those were some of the moments that transformed Steph Curry
from most valuable to mostly magical. I'm Israel Utierres and
this is dubbed Dynasty. Curry shots often start from so
far out the ball could use a roadmap to find
the basket. The shots begin from such a distance you
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could hold a short conversation about it between release and swish.
It's just one ingredient of Curry magic. It just so
happens to be his most mesmerizing trick.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Curl will just dribble it out and the friends, who
are also obviously aware of Paul George there one.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Tool ware whoa job by half Paul point five seconds
for Curry at three D three, The basketball like a
laser cutting through the atmosphere, regardless of the elements finds
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its way to the rip, whether it's coming from seventy
feet away in a game that counts, or from well
off the court when they don't count. As part of
his pregame shooting routine at home, Curry seems to have
full control of the basketball even after it leaves his hands.
Only it's not an illusion. Shot clock winding down.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Rry's gonna have to put it up.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Launches it up.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Shot clock Wow, Steph Curry with the shock clock expiring.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Step Warriors assistant coach and Curry's shooting coach on the team,
Bruce Frasier, better known by the team as Q, has
watched Curry hit one long, ridiculous shot after another in
practice settings. He knows the secret to all of Curry's trips.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Somehow has a genetic gift with hand eye coordination. That's
his genetic gift and as far as superior than to
any human I've ever seen and in anything. So you
give him a bowling ball, you give him a tennis racket.
You know he's not professional, but he's elite at anything
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that you hand him and say, this is the game.
So it's kind of the ball and stick. You do
this and we're going to and he's going to be
elite at it. Right. I can't imagine being able to
flip balls with my left hand the same as my
right hand, to shoot it from the here, to shoot
it from here. But this guy, it's not just in
these big games, but it's also just when he's messing
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around in the gym. So I have seen these shots,
you know, throughout the years, over and over again. So
in that moment, you know, Steph has practiced these shots,
and he loves big moments. He loves the show. He
loves the moment. No moment's too big for him. That's
what he wants.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Two seconds to work with Curry from Midcorn.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
If you were going to say, what's the mechanical brilliance,
He's able to generate power in a physics form like
I wouldn't know. But when you start a shot, there's
there's kind of a momentum that goes into it. Along
with a finely tuned skill, it's the kinetic chain that
you have to generate that power. Because if you look
at Stef's arms, he's got some you know, genetic beast Like.
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He's not a superhero, he's a self made MVP. He's
a common man with thin arms and thin body and
six three, but he's able to generate that force where
that ball finishes right at the right moment. It's like
a golfer and he's got people. It's like that force
is generated and he's able to let it go right
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at the right moment, and he's perfected that so he
shoots normal shots from range that most people aren't able
to generate that kind of power, no matter how strong
they are. That's one of his brilliances. It's the hand
eye and the ability to generate that connectic force as
you say to about ball, to release right at the
right time, and then to fine tune at the end.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
If you ever get access to a hot tub time
machine and wanted to watch one of the most electric,
satisfying and transformative seasons ever, set that hot tub for
the twenty fifteen to sixteen NBA season and focus in
on Curry.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
He was coming off.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
His first NBA Most Valuable Player award and was on
the defending champion team that was effectively running it back.
Steph was twenty seven years old, at the peak of
his prime, and had overcome the ankle injuries and the
doubt he had helped Warriors Basketball go from a fun
brand to a franchise, lifting the NBA in a time
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when peak of his powers Lebron and end of career
Kobe Bryant were still giving the NBA some life, Curry
and the Warriors were providing the energy and the electricity somehow.
Despite a surprise season that brought the Warriors their first
championship in forty years, it felt like Golden State still
had more to give, and Curry what's the best example
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of that. His confidence shot through the roof this season,
and his play demonstrated as much. As Fraser explains, Curry
was prepared for even more of a breakthrough because his
initial point to believe under Steve Kerr was such a success.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
I was lucky to be good friends with Steve and
former teammates, so I had a lot of insight into
what we may want to do offensively, but it was uncertain,
and Steve had a vision, but you know, we had
He had questioned, He had he had considered a lot
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of the things that his former coaches that he really
liked did and he wanted to implement some of those things.
But Steph was the question marking it because and the
rest of the team, you know, like, do you put
in the triangle offense? Because he loved the triangle from
Phil and what they did in Chicago, and he loved
the movement and the re based actions of it. But
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it might take the ball out of Steph's hands. That
was a question. And Steph with the ball in his
hands was brilliant. And then you know, with the other
pieces move in harmony with that. And you know, even
some of the stuff that Papovich did with the Horns
action in the Strong and Weeks, So he wanted to
include some of that. And ironically, he really loved some
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of the kind of the split action that Sloan did.
And so there was Lennie Wilkins, there was some there
was some influence from some of his former coaches that
he was considering piecing together. But how would this all
work with Steph Curry and Klay Thompson. And so the
the take on it was a hybrid of that of
those things, knowing that Steph still had to have the
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ball in his hands. And as we grew with Steph
and that team, the reality was is that we couldn't
take Steph's kind of Mustang spirit away. From him. So
he was going to make mistakes, he was going to
throw the ball around a little bit, and he was
going to shoot from wherever we wanted. And that was
good because if we started to talk about shot selection
or this is a good shot, there was a bad shot,
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we felt like that would take away his spirit and
we wanted that spirit because it was it was a
brilliant spirit. So he sort of showed us what he
was capable of, and I think Steve, without contradicting myself,
bridled that enough to you know, to make it click
with all with all the others. So we had to
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live through some of those crazy shots, but some of
those crazy shots went in. So is that a crazy
shot or is that a brilliance of this player? And
so we we learned that that was one of the stuff,
you know, strengths, and.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
It really changed the game with the range he had
and the ability to shoot early in the shot clot
where he maybe you're going to get something better if
you run in and play, but we let stuff and Clay
both go.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
With Curry as free and confident as ever, the small
details of his game began to improve, making him something
the game had never seen before. A mix of grace,
skill and killer instinct that could get his buckets from
anywhere on the floor. Somehow, he was better than the
previous season, an MVP season, because he read the game
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so much better. According to Fraser, he.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Learned how to move without the ball. That was something
that he hadn't done much of prior to that time.
I've mentioned this about the Memphis series. He learned how
to relocate a similar he learned how to set screens
for others. He's a brilliant screamer. And then he became
a much better passer. He was always a capable passer,
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but he learned how to pass. So the evolution of
stuff Curry as a player and the skill set evolved,
and the evolution of stuff.
Speaker 11 (10:08):
Is as kind of the maturity of his game started
to grow too. And that's where it is now that
that was those were growing years for him to start
to see the game in different ways and then to
utilize it to his skill set. And so the championship
was proof that this is the way he could be elite,
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not just in a high ball screen or not just
in a one.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
On one action. He could be elite by using all
of these tools to perfect his game, and he had
the people around him Andre Rudala, Andrew Boget, brilliant passer,
Sean Livingston. He had these guys that could get him
the ball in places that he was unstoppable, and he
moved those places and they cater tuned. So I think
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I think the mindset for him was I can evolve
in this way.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Steph wasted no time showing off the new, finer details
of his game in the fifteen to sixteen season. Chef Curtain,
as Drake first called him in a twenty thirteen song
zero to one hundred, was cooking with the sauce from
the jump, scoring forty in his first game, then fifty
three in his third game, both coming against the poor
New Orleans Pelicans.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Got babit switched out on a hurry for three and
fifty one.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Fuck, he makes believers out of it, but they still
don't get.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Up any closer.
Speaker 12 (11:40):
Hurry, He's going to go to the line.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
He hits New Orleans for forty opening night.
Speaker 13 (11:48):
And sitting on fifty two right now fifty three.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Step talked to Warriors sideline with Porter ros Goold on
Blue Day after the game about his ever lengthening range.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
So hard this season.
Speaker 14 (12:02):
It looks like you are getting very comfortable taking deep, deep,
deep deep threes.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Are you working on that? I mean, what is your range?
Is there anywhere that you hesitate?
Speaker 15 (12:12):
I mean, with that reason, bruh, I hope that I
keep making him. It gives me that much more confidence.
Is if you mess a couple in a row, No,
I get a little bit close if we keep shooting.
But I mean, as long as I'm making him, I'll
keep taking them.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Within those but then rhythm.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
That fifty three point game would already be, by advanced
statistical measure, his best complete game of the season, but
it was just the beginning of jaw dropping shooting performances.
He was in such a comfort zone to start this season,
Curry put on some of the more efficient shows of
his career, like the time he visited his hometown of
Charlotte on December second, with his father Dell watching, as
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he normally does in these contests because he's the color
analyst on the Hornets TV broadcast. Curry dropped forth, but
he did so on just eighteen shots with four free throws.
It sounds like a mathematical riddle, but he managed forty
points because he hit fourteen of his eighteen shots for
a seventy eight percent clip, including eight of his eleven
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three point attempts.
Speaker 16 (13:21):
Curry just incredible, Hope, That's what he does. He is
the best shooter on the planet today and he knows it.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
He delivered. Now, I can totally understand if you're confused
given the reaction of that crap. But yes, that game
was in sharp. It was a road game. Until it
was After that game, the Warriors twentieth of the season,
Curry's team still hadn't lost. They were undefeated and stayed
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so for another four games after that. It would immediately
spark the question of whether this team could break the
Chicago Bulls nineteen ninety six mark of seventy two to
ten as the greatest regular season ever, and the twenty
four wins to open the campaign broke the record for
the longest win streak to start a season by nine games.
It was a magical run in the midst of a
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magical run, two ninety one Boston by one Curry.
Speaker 16 (14:27):
Wow, I want to tell you if that is one
of the best huts I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Anybody think I'm ne'.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
A minute to go in the game, Green they want,
you know, they want Curry handling the ball and Harry coups.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
There it goes, ooh, you didn't be that wasn't just
another roadkie. That was teeny Garden in Boston.
Speaker 17 (14:50):
Don't think we didn't hear a good amount of cheers
mixed in with those groans. The Warriors were becoming a
phenomenon everywhere, but it was missing something someone.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
To be more precise, Steve Kerr had not been a
part of it. Two days into training camp, the Warriors
coach decided to take time off to address complications from
what was supposed to be a simple back procedure to
repair a ruptured disc.
Speaker 18 (15:18):
So you know, when you when you have a surgery,
you asked, you know, what are the what are the risks?
And so I, my, my, my surgery was the least
risky of any vacks. You know, it's the most basic
micro diskected me where there you have a ruptured disc
and they're just taking the pieces of the discount. And
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so I asked about what the risks were, and I said, well, okay,
well what are the chances of that? And I'm not
going to get into all the you know, the medical
detail of what happened, but basically the chances were incredibly
slim that anything would go wrong, but they did.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
What had been considered routine far as back surgeries go
turned into a nightmare. During the operation in twenty fifteen,
Kerr's dura, the membrane surrounding the spinal cord was accidentally cut,
allowing some cerebro spinal fluid to leak. The leak caused
severe headaches and fatigue, and by September of twenty fifteen,
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Kerr needed another surgery to address it. He was still
recovering from said surgery when training camp started, so the
riggers that come with coaching were impossible for him, and
the recovery would last far longer than the forty three
games he missed.
Speaker 18 (16:37):
So it was pretty rough and life changing and changed
everything in my life in terms of how how I
had to approach things, how I had to work to
get my body right, how I had to work to
manage the chronic pain that ensued headaches. It was a
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challenge of a lifetime and remains that. You know, that
was the biggest thing that I will ever face because
health trump's all, you know, the other stuff is all
all dependent on good health, you know, enjoying your life
and family and your work and it all is dependent
on health. So it was a tough, tough time.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It was terrible.
Speaker 18 (17:22):
It was terrible. I mean I was I was thrilled for.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
The team, but I felt left out.
Speaker 18 (17:26):
You know, I'm laying at home on my bed and
watching this dominant team win night after night, and I'm
not there to enjoy being part of it. Yeah, it was.
It was rough.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Rick Welts, Warriors, team president at the time, compared this
extended stretch to the time Curry was battling ankle injuries.
There was uncertainty surrounding the future of one of the
key and most treasured figures of the organization.
Speaker 19 (17:57):
Here's Wells one of my scariest times, you know, in
terms of the people that you're around and you see,
you know, the challenges that they face. And just as
you described, I mean just his face was a different color,
like he just wasn't uh, you know, you could just
see what he was battling and heroically but but still,
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you know, pain is pain, and there's just no way
to completely avoid it or basket and you know, stepping
away in the midst of you know, an amazing run
playoff run right, and not knowing again if you're going
to be healthy enough to come back. For the same
reasons we talked about with Steph, just at that point
it was such a beloved part of the organization that
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it was it was much more a personal thing than
it was like value to the team thing, because he
really wanted for him to recover in a way that
he could enjoy life the way that he always enjoyed life,
because that that that life joy he shared with everybody
around him and continues to to this day.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The warriors near spotless play for half that season didn't
mask the pain for Kerk, but it did take attention
away from the fact he was out. In fact, as
memory serves, there wasn't that much national sympathy for Kerr
because we really didn't know how bad the complications were.
There were, however, raging debates about whether Kerr deserved credit
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for the wins. Those thirty nine wins and four losses
where the Warriors were coached by assistant Luke Walton, those
were credited to Steve Kerr. It was a technicality that
stirred so much debate it even reached Kerr directly before
he came back to the side, well maybe not directly.
Speaker 18 (19:49):
The last few weeks before I came back, I was
traveling with the team before I started coaching, and we
were in Portland and Luke Walton and I went to
dinner with a couple of the other coaches and he
jumped in an uber and Luke's in the front seat.
I'm behind the driver and the driver says, hey, you're
Luke Walton and he goes yeah. He goes, man, it's
it's it's bull that coach Kerr is getting credit for
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all your wins. I mean, you're like thirty nine and
two and they and I read the other day they're
given the given the credit to coach Kerr. He gets
the wins on his record, and we just it was
it was so fun.
Speaker 20 (20:24):
We ran with it, you know. We all started chirping
away like yeah, it's such cool like and he's too
like that guy, you know, and he's taking credit for
and he's not even here.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Fraser was one of the coaches in that uber. He
remembers Walton nailing the dismount. At the end of the
car ride.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
We get to the restaurant, we got out of the
car and Luth looks at the driver, said, Hey, what
your name? Guy's mad. He's like came out meet Steve Kerr. Guy,
guy who turned like ghostly white. It's funny that you know,
and Steve's got a good sense of Umisoda's luke.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So Kerr would struggle with back pain and headaches even
after returning, still occasionally taking time away from the team,
including during the twenty sixteen playoffs. As a sideline reporter,
I'd get access to Kerr before games along with the
rest of the broadcast team, and around this time he
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often looked and sounded miserable. He tried to be as
pleasant as he'd always been and share stories like he
always had, but you can tell he was grinning through pain.
He couldn't sit properly in his chair. His face was
some combination of gray and pale green. His smile was
certainly forced, and this was after he'd been back for
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some time. Needless to say, Kerr absolutely needed those forty
three games off. And while Walton's part in this usually
just restarts the debate about who deserves the wins, the
assistant coach who's now with the Detroit Pistons deserves a
ton of credit for nurturing this dynasty at a key period.
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Bruce Fraser noticed Kerr's condition at the start of training
camp and notified Welton of what might come.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
I don't want to sound like some whisper or some
of here, but I went to Luke and I said,
you you should be ready to coach this team. And
he's like, what I said, I don't know if he's
going to be able to do it, and he looked
at me like I was crazy. I said, you better
start preparing. And to credit to Luke, you know, Luke
prepared and was had the respect of the players in
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a good way where he was he was a relevant
former player and capable, very very bright basketball mind. You
don't always get that through just talking to him because
he's pretty laid back, you know, California draws, but he's
very very bright mind and the player is Actually our
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team was so such a well oiled machine at that
point after that first year and all the patterns that
we had rehearsed and gotten better at with what we
were doing. That credit to those guys. They they not
only were really good at, you know, the things we
had put in, but they gave Luke a lot of
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rope and wanted to do well for him too, so
he had the respect of the players. I think they
knew that they gave him rope with some of our
you know ato's, and they came execution me. Luke and
I had a kind of a running joke. We had
a play called dive roll, which was just sort of
fake ball screen into a high ball screen for Steph.
And anytime we weren't certain of what we may want
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to do, Luke would looked at me and say dive
roll and start laughing because we knew that that was
going to be the ball into STEP's hands and there's
a good chance something good was going to happen.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Behind Steph. The Warriors dived and rolled to a thirty
nine and four record on pace to break the record
for the best season ever. The difference in Curry was evident.
His three point attempts jumped from eight point one in
his first MVP season to eleven point two to a
game in the fifteen to sixteen season, yet he shot
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those with even better efficiency. His scoring increased by more
than six points to a league leading thirty point one
a game, the largest leap ever for an MVP. Steph
finished fourth in the Most Improved voting that year also
but lost in a landslide to Portland CJ. McCullum. Just
like Rookie of the Year back in OH nine, Steph
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probably should have won this award too. If there was
one moment where you could identify how confident Curry felt
in what would be his second MVP season, and the
moment the entire NBA realized Curry must be guarded anywhere
and everywhere. It was at the end of an overtime
game in Oklahoma City on February twenty seven. After the break,
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we hear from Mike Breen himself on what may be
the most memorable single shot in Steph Curry's career and
the origin of the double bang. Klay Thompson had already
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scored thirty two, Draymond Green had fourteen assists, six steals,
and four block shots, and yet the Warriors in thunder
wearin overtime and tied at one eighteen. Russell Westbrook missed
a jumper with eight seconds remaining, which Andre Iguidala rebounded
and kicked over to Curry. Having already nailed eleven three
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pointers in this game, Curry casually brought the ball up
the left side of the court, and when he was
parallel to the r in the thunder logo mere steps
past half court, Curry launched one of the gutsiest regular
season shots, a thirty seven foot bomb that had everyone shot.
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He heard this call at the top of the episode,
but it's well worth hearing again. They do have a
time out decide.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Not to use of Curry quite on.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
A step of.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Curry what six steps of a second remating but probably
a choice of stuff.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
But continues.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
If Andre Rogerson, the defender on that play, who recognized
the situation a smidge too late, was the most shot
by Steph's launch, then Mike Breen was clearly second. Breen
had already coined the term bangon for whenever a player
would hit a big shot. This shot by Curry was
the first double bang of Breen's career. There would be
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a handful of others over the years, but this was
the double bang origin moment.
Speaker 13 (26:54):
That was the epitome of the self confidence that he
has and has always had. And you know, and so
he'll tell you all the time, his self confidence is
from all the work put into getting to that point.
But there was nobody in the building but Steph Curry,
who thought he was going to put off the shot
when he did, he had a little extra time. The
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thunder didn't think he was going to shoot it there.
I certainly didn't think he was going to shoot it there.
I had to play catch up on the call because
I didn't expect it, and just again's that's the ultimate
self confident shot by the greatest shooter who's ever played.
It's a complete out of body experience. I don't plan it.
It just was so shocking and it happened so quickly
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that I kind of lost my mind, and I remember
thinking after like, did I go over the top there?
Because I felt like I that's as much as I
ever lost it on a call. But it the moment
deserved it because of who he was, what they were doing,
and what he just did.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
This was already four months into STEP's unanimous MVP season,
and the surprise were still coming. Defenses didn't know what
to do with him, and the wins were piling up.
Entering April of that season, the Warriors were sixty eight
and seven. That meant they could afford to lose two
of the final seven games and still break the Chicago
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Bulls record of seventy two and ten. That seemed like
a guarantee. This team hadn't lost more than two games
in any month of the season. Surely going five and
two would be a cakewalk to end it. Not so fast.
On April first, the Warriors, in what seemed like a prank,
suffered their first home loss of the season to the
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Boston Celtics. It was April and Golden State had been
undefeated at.
Speaker 12 (28:47):
Home, no home losses this season. Golden State's gonna need
a miracle to keep that. Going down three to eight
point three to go, it is living stint to trigger
two players down, no timeouts, has to get it in
three at the top, to Curry.
Speaker 21 (29:06):
Step fix free for the time to go, Timpson to
barn stepp back free for the time. And the Boston
Celtics have stopped the record run at home of the
Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Then, after a recovery win against the Blazers, the Warriors
lost another home game, this one feeling even more like
a joke because it was to the lowly Minnesota Timberwolves
behind a career best thirty five points from Shabbaz Mohammad,
Remember him, It's okay if you don't.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Bosma, I mean ol has fed off fire. He has
thirty ports.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
That meant Golden State needed to win its final four
games to break the record. For context, seventy to ten
is one of those sports numbers that people just knew,
especially NBA fans. It was Michael Jordan's nineteen ninety six
Bulls team, the first full season after he came back
from retirement. They went on to dominate the postseason and
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were widely considered the best team ever.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
By five lighty shirts are trampis show that choke.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Before it six year as like a three bust products, eighty.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Shot shot, bar shoring wild one day shot.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Nike even released a seventy too to ten pair of
Jordan eleven's that were all the rage I had a pair,
truly cementing that season as one that will live in
the minds of basketball fans forever.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
And the first time in the history of the NBA
that one player has won the regular season Most Valuable Player,
All Star, Most Valuable Flier, and NBA Finals, a tremendous
accomplishment by Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So for the Warriors to best that, it would not
only mean they'd be in the conversation at the best
team ever, but it would mean anything short of a championship.
Would be wildly disappointed that come playoffs, everyone's record starts O.
And oh, so, what does the regular season wins record
really mean if it didn't get you any extra advantages
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in the postseason. Yes, the Spurs were giving chase and
finished with sixty seven wins, but there was still a
six game gap between the two teams at season's end.
In fact, when the Spurs and Warriors played on April tenth,
the game was meaningless in the standings and only mattered
because the Warriors were chasing that record. In the second
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to last game of the season, the Warriors needed overtime
to beat a thunder team that sat both Kevin Durant
and Russell Westbrook. So the road to seventy three wins
most turbulent at the end when the games didn't actually
mean that much. In the regular season finale, Golden State
faced a Memphis team that still had something to play for,
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jockeying for playoff position with the Rockets and Mavericks. The
game was such a big deal as they chased the record.
ESPN broadcast the game simultaneous to Kobe Bryant's final game
on ESPN two. The Warriors looked like they'd coast to
the record win, going up by fourteen points in the
first quarter, So most of the viewing audience stuck with
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the Kobe game after that, and those folks were rewarded
by watching Kobe drop sixty in his final game.
Speaker 12 (32:42):
Well, Kobe, give them one last gamer. Bryant ti the
move with the jumper.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Ye I have sneakers for that game also. But the
greater historical accomplishment was happening in Golden State. The Warriors,
behind a player who'd soon be named the first unanimous MVP,
would finish the best regular season in NBA history.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
That's official number seventy three.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
The greatness regular season.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
In NBA history now belongs to the twenty sixteen gold
and State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Steph talked with Doris Burke on the court after the game.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
What kind of.
Speaker 14 (33:24):
Character has been required from your guys in the pursuit
of this historic marks?
Speaker 15 (33:30):
That's everything for us. We have There's so many guys
that sacrifice that. Everybody has a role in this team,
and you can say they come in every night with
that focus of playing a run the best of ability
and just knowing that's gonna be the best way for
rest of win games. So practice days, travel days, Dana
days fifty all being locked in and tider together, that's
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gonna take me.
Speaker 14 (33:51):
Yeah, in what way did the pursuit of this mark
help you? And what will ultimately be your goal, which
is a championship? How did this pursuit help that?
Speaker 15 (34:00):
I mean, it just keeps us focus down the stretch.
We don't have any room for er. You know, we're
getting everything's best shot, and for us to keep that
playoff kind of mentality and that playoff focus for our
ultimate goals, obvious championship. These last two weeks have been
mentally and physical challenges, So I think it's made us
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better and we'll be fresh with this wecaus.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
At the time, no one would publicly question the decision
to attempt to set the record despite not needing it
to claim the number one overall seat. That's probably because
at the time no one could envision this Warrior's team
losing in the postseason. But in the Warriors' locker room,
there were private discussions about how to approach the final
few games. Andrew Boget sounds regretful when he talks about
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this team decision, the.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
Plays in that locker room that wanted to go for
seventy three and nine. There were plays that will like,
let's just be healthy, and I get it, like we're
going to create history seventy three and nine. But the
argument from the guys that were like let's just be
healthy is seventy three and nine doesn't mean I don't
win the championship. So we as a group, the majority,
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were like, Okay, let's just we're going to roll the
dice and go for it. We probably could have risted
guys towards the end of that season, made sure that
we're fine for the playoffs. So whatever is in the playoffs,
we'll go guys banged up.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Right, Injuries can happen in the postseason also, and one
injury in particular did happen in these twenty sixteen playoffs.
Steph Curry didn't suffer the most serious of setbacks, but
it was easily the most significant of this postseason, and frankly,
it probably would have happened even if the Warriors had
rested Steph down the stretch of the regular season. In
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the first round against the Rockets. Just before halftime of
Game four, Golden State had its worst scare possible. Curry
had already missed the previous two games of this series
with a sprained ankle he suffered in Game one, and
he wasn't playing like his usual As the final seconds
were ticking off the second quarter clock and Trevor Ariza
was dribbling up the floor for one last shot, James
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Harden and Dinazis Mantiunis clipped feet as they were heading
up court. That sent Mantiunis sliding on his back for
about ten feet, leaving a streak of sweat on the
floor behind him. As Curry was trying to get in
defensive position in front of Arisa, he slid on that
fresh Montiuna sweat, sending his feet spraying in opposite directions.
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The inside of Curry's right knee hit the court and
he immediately grabbed at it, writhing in pain. As the
halftime buzzer sounded, he not up.
Speaker 13 (36:42):
Yet, still time remaining, Orisa trying to find some room.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Curry falls down and grabs his right leg.
Speaker 13 (36:49):
Curry asking for help to get up.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
He fell awkwardly and immediately grabbed his right leg and
you see him hobbling.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Right now, Curry suffered that great one mcl spring on
April twenty four. He didn't play again until May ninth,
and probably would have sat out longer if it was
the regular season. Now, Steph did have forty points off
the bench in that comeback game, leading the Warriors to
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an overtime win and hitting the crowd with an I'm
back after one of his five May threes.
Speaker 13 (37:24):
Warriors could add to their lead.
Speaker 22 (37:26):
Now Curry left wide open right between the eyes and
then on the bench and details the fans I am back.
I am back for he is in a big way too.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
But for the rest of these playoffs, the playoffs where
Golden State needed a championship to complete a dream season,
Curry would look slightly off. Steph would need his splash
brother to step up. After the break we learn how
Game six, Clay was born. Steph Curry would hit five
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threes to close out the Blazers in five games and
reach the conference finals. But against the Thunder step would
have two of his worst playoff games, Games one and four,
and the record setting Warriors suddenly found themselves down three
games to one to Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
That is the first time first season a Warrior for them,
after having the possible seven FIA Hive Thunder or conference
last seasons under the eight finals that they lost showing
it all at out there flashing Game five about a
possible close out so nice.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
The next few games would spark discussion around Curry. Was
he actually physically limited by the knee injury or was
a nation full of Steph Curry fans creating excuses for
a player who we wanted to see succeed. In the
Game one loss at home, Steph shot forty percent with
seven turnovers. In a crucial Game four, he shot it
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even worse, for just nineteen points with six turnovers. Whether
or not Curry was physically capable of carrying Golden State
was unclear. What was clear he wouldn't have to do
it alone. The Warriors won Game five with the Splash
Brothers combining for fifty eight. Then in Game six, Clay
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Thompson managed to take all the attention away from Steph's
knee with a season saving Game six performance that earned
him the simple but fitting nickname Game six Clay.
Speaker 8 (39:56):
Eight point lead for a fog.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Chris Thompson a.
Speaker 16 (40:01):
Just checked by it pops out of.
Speaker 8 (40:02):
Play now roll those fed a final twelve at of
the season.
Speaker 16 (40:10):
Right Mada.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Top shot a rate fall of three top way.
Speaker 8 (40:18):
Topsho Roveros has three quarter by off reapond the times made.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
In what was his signature playoff game in a career
filled with them, Thompson scored nineteen of his forty one
points in the fourth quarter. It was a fourth quarter
that began with the Warriors trailing by eighth and their
season on the brink.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Over Give him alive for up Topson, time of shooting,
water shot, fight play Chompson.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
He is putting off a top difficult three point shot exhibition.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
That's all the heart and will. He's challenging itself. He
doesn't want to go home unless it's.
Speaker 6 (40:59):
The play game seven.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
The fourth quarter started with three threes from Clay to
keep his team close. After Steph played his part and
tied the game at ninety nine with his sixth and
final three of the game, Thompson would hit his eleventh
three moments later, giving the Warriors the lead for good.
Then Clay hit two free throws to close out the
game and send the series to a game seven. In open.
Speaker 22 (41:25):
Again.
Speaker 8 (41:25):
It was Equidado Thompson fires for three, Yes, Golden State
one three.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
The Warriors went on to win a nervy game seven
behind thirty six from Steph and another six threes from Clay,
reaching their second straight NBA Finals. They'd prepare to face
Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers again.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
Right, we'll cut it out, Lash, We'll shall here.
Speaker 8 (42:00):
Oh Colorida, Lania sto coming over the tenth two out
of two hundred twenty three to win a Rush threw
twel We were getting still walk now.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Had the Thunder went on to win that Western Conference finals,
a matchup between Kevin Durant and Lebron James would have
been a welcome sight for the NBA. Durant had been
trying to reach James's level of winning, and it would
have been his second chance at Lebron in the finals,
having lost to the Miami Heat in twenty twelve. But
there was something about a rematch between Lebron and Steph
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that felt like it was the best possible option, even
if they had just based off the previous year. Deep down,
it was only right there we got an opportunity to
play Colden State after lap and last year me personally,
I wanted to see Gold State again the force of
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James and the Big three Caves versus the grace of
the Splash Brothers, or simply could Lebron v. Kerry be
the modern day Magic b Birth. It would be a
matchup that would spoil there happen for four straight fights.
But NBA fans weren't tired of this matchup just yet.
Mike Breen called all of those fins and he certainly
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didn't mind the rematch.
Speaker 9 (43:22):
And you can't.
Speaker 13 (43:23):
You can't think that way because every season is so different,
and just from the standpoint, if they brought back the
exact same rosters the next season, it's so different. Then
you throw in injuries, you throw in contract situations, and
can you stay together, So there's no guarantee even if
you're the best team by far, even if you come
back home the next year, there's so many things that
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can go differently, and that's the hard way to predict,
both with those two teams, and probably the fans of
twenty eight other franchises will completely disagree with me. Both
with those two teams. If it did happen, you knew
you had something special because not only were they great teams,
but you're looking at two of the greatest players to
ever play at their particular positions and overall in the NBA,
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and the fact that it could lead to a rivalry
and one of them is going for a dynasty. It's
the stuff that makes history and what makes the game
so great.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
The problem for the Warriors at the moment was health.
Curry's injuries were already noted, but there was another key
thing the last year's Finals MVP that was also working
through some knack and pink. It was exactly the vision
Boge didn't want to see after his team made the
choice to go for seventy three wins.
Speaker 9 (44:36):
Andre Udala was dealing with a bunch of stuff. Steph
was dealing with stuff. The Goodala thing was big because
he was the guy that limited Lebrondi before. He's back
couldn't moved. He's back was meant up the whole final series.
We start well, we blow him out in the first
two games. It's obviously three to one, and then then
the Draymond thing happens.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
Ah, Yes, the Draymond thing. The Golden State Warriors had
the most versatile defender in the Lee League and Draymond Green.
If they had one of the best communicators in the
league in Draymond Green, they have the perfect compliment to
the Splash Brothers and Draymond, But they also have one
of the louder voices in NBA history, one of the
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most demonstrative players in NBA history, and a player who
often needs to play with unbridled emotion just to get
the best out of himself, especially in the biggest games.
In Game four of the twenty sixteen Finals, with his
team potentially on the verge of winning a second straight
championship and after the record setting regular season preparing to
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hold the fictional but meaningful title of best team ever Green,
lets some of those qualities get the worst of them,
and with one angry swipe of an arm, he changed
the course.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
At sports history, greated James, joying at each other, We'll
play the tenures like a dollar, the full off that
goal and a couple of fouls gonna be called on.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
The next dub dynasty. I wanted to see it, man,
I wanted to see the royal rumble. And I was
so excited when we got eight in the Finals of
twenty sixteen, because that's what it felt like when we
were going over the Bay Bridge.
Speaker 6 (46:17):
I just remember being on the back of the bus
with all our guys and you know, Lebron speaking that
you know this, it's already written. Man.
Speaker 18 (46:25):
They opened up the door sometimes that that anger comes out,
and in some ways we're similar in that regula.
Speaker 13 (46:33):
You just knew that that was one of the most
spectacular plays in the heat of the moment, at the
most critical moment that I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
They do have a time out, decide not to use
a Curry wait on top with six steps of second
the morning, we'll polly join a touchdowns, beat the.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Clock from midport, Curry Hey back home, no file speaking
for Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I had to Curry.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Curry sets fire, puts up back, Steph Curry home way.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Down from mid courtway.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Those were some of the moments that transformed Steph Curry
from most valuable to mostly magical. I'm Israel Utierres and
this is dubbed Dynasty. Curry shots often start from so
far out the ball could use a roadmap to find
the basket. The shots begin from such a distance you
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could hold a short conversation about it between release and swish.
It's just one ingredient of Curry magic. It just so
happens to be his most mesmerizing trick.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Curl will just dribble it out and the friends, who
are also obviously aware of Paul George there one.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Tool ware whoa job by half Paul point five seconds
for Curry at three D three, The basketball like a
laser cutting through the atmosphere, regardless of the elements finds
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its way to the rip, whether it's coming from seventy
feet away in a game that counts, or from well
off the court when they don't count. As part of
his pregame shooting routine at home, Curry seems to have
full control of the basketball even after it leaves his hands.
Only it's not an illusion. Shot clock winding down.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Rry's gonna have to put it up.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Launches it up.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Shot clock Wow, Steph Curry with the shock clock expiring.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Step Warriors assistant coach and Curry's shooting coach on the team,
Bruce Frasier, better known by the team as Q, has
watched Curry hit one long, ridiculous shot after another in
practice settings. He knows the secret to all of Curry's trips.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Somehow has a genetic gift with hand eye coordination. That's
his genetic gift and as far as superior than to
any human I've ever seen and in anything. So you
give him a bowling ball, you give him a tennis racket.
You know he's not professional, but he's elite at anything
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that you hand him and say, this is the game.
So it's kind of the ball and stick. You do
this and we're going to and he's going to be
elite at it. Right. I can't imagine being able to
flip balls with my left hand the same as my
right hand, to shoot it from the here, to shoot
it from here. But this guy, it's not just in
these big games, but it's also just when he's messing
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around in the gym. So I have seen these shots,
you know, throughout the years, over and over again. So
in that moment, you know, Steph has practiced these shots,
and he loves big moments. He loves the show. He
loves the moment. No moment's too big for him. That's
what he wants.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Two seconds to work with Curry from Midcorn.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
If you were going to say, what's the mechanical brilliance,
He's able to generate power in a physics form like
I wouldn't know. But when you start a shot, there's
there's kind of a momentum that goes into it. Along
with a finely tuned skill, it's the kinetic chain that
you have to generate that power. Because if you look
at Stef's arms, he's got some you know, genetic beast Like.
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He's not a superhero, he's a self made MVP. He's
a common man with thin arms and thin body and
six three, but he's able to generate that force where
that ball finishes right at the right moment. It's like
a golfer and he's got people. It's like that force
is generated and he's able to let it go right
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at the right moment, and he's perfected that so he
shoots normal shots from range that most people aren't able
to generate that kind of power, no matter how strong
they are. That's one of his brilliances. It's the hand
eye and the ability to generate that connectic force as
you say to about ball, to release right at the
right time, and then to fine tune at the end.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
If you ever get access to a hot tub time
machine and wanted to watch one of the most electric,
satisfying and transformative seasons ever, set that hot tub for
the twenty fifteen to sixteen NBA season and focus in
on Curry.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
He was coming off.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
His first NBA Most Valuable Player award and was on
the defending champion team that was effectively running it back.
Steph was twenty seven years old, at the peak of
his prime, and had overcome the ankle injuries and the
doubt he had helped Warriors Basketball go from a fun
brand to a franchise, lifting the NBA in a time
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when peak of his powers Lebron and end of career
Kobe Bryant were still giving the NBA some life, Curry
and the Warriors were providing the energy and the electricity somehow.
Despite a surprise season that brought the Warriors their first
championship in forty years, it felt like Golden State still
had more to give, and Curry what's the best example
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of that. His confidence shot through the roof this season,
and his play demonstrated as much. As Fraser explains, Curry
was prepared for even more of a breakthrough because his
initial point to believe under Steve Kerr was such a success.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
I was lucky to be good friends with Steve and
former teammates, so I had a lot of insight into
what we may want to do offensively, but it was uncertain,
and Steve had a vision, but you know, we had
He had questioned, He had he had considered a lot
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of the things that his former coaches that he really
liked did and he wanted to implement some of those things.
But Steph was the question marking it because and the
rest of the team, you know, like, do you put
in the triangle offense? Because he loved the triangle from
Phil and what they did in Chicago, and he loved
the movement and the re based actions of it. But
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it might take the ball out of Steph's hands. That
was a question. And Steph with the ball in his
hands was brilliant. And then you know, with the other
pieces move in harmony with that. And you know, even
some of the stuff that Papovich did with the Horns
action in the Strong and Weeks, So he wanted to
include some of that. And ironically, he really loved some
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of the kind of the split action that Sloan did.
And so there was Lennie Wilkins, there was some there
was some influence from some of his former coaches that
he was considering piecing together. But how would this all
work with Steph Curry and Klay Thompson. And so the
the take on it was a hybrid of that of
those things, knowing that Steph still had to have the
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ball in his hands. And as we grew with Steph
and that team, the reality was is that we couldn't
take Steph's kind of Mustang spirit away. From him. So
he was going to make mistakes, he was going to
throw the ball around a little bit, and he was
going to shoot from wherever we wanted. And that was
good because if we started to talk about shot selection
or this is a good shot, there was a bad shot,
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we felt like that would take away his spirit and
we wanted that spirit because it was it was a
brilliant spirit. So he sort of showed us what he
was capable of, and I think Steve, without contradicting myself,
bridled that enough to you know, to make it click
with all with all the others. So we had to
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live through some of those crazy shots, but some of
those crazy shots went in. So is that a crazy
shot or is that a brilliance of this player? And
so we we learned that that was one of the stuff,
you know, strengths, and.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
It really changed the game with the range he had
and the ability to shoot early in the shot clot
where he maybe you're going to get something better if
you run in and play, but we let stuff and Clay
both go.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
With Curry as free and confident as ever, the small
details of his game began to improve, making him something
the game had never seen before. A mix of grace,
skill and killer instinct that could get his buckets from
anywhere on the floor. Somehow, he was better than the
previous season, an MVP season, because he read the game
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so much better. According to Fraser, he.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Learned how to move without the ball. That was something
that he hadn't done much of prior to that time.
I've mentioned this about the Memphis series. He learned how
to relocate a similar he learned how to set screens
for others. He's a brilliant screamer. And then he became
a much better passer. He was always a capable passer,
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but he learned how to pass. So the evolution of
stuff Curry as a player and the skill set evolved,
and the evolution of stuff.
Speaker 11 (10:08):
Is as kind of the maturity of his game started
to grow too. And that's where it is now that
that was those were growing years for him to start
to see the game in different ways and then to
utilize it to his skill set. And so the championship
was proof that this is the way he could be elite,
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not just in a high ball screen or not just
in a one.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
On one action. He could be elite by using all
of these tools to perfect his game, and he had
the people around him Andre Rudala, Andrew Boget, brilliant passer,
Sean Livingston. He had these guys that could get him
the ball in places that he was unstoppable, and he
moved those places and they cater tuned. So I think
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I think the mindset for him was I can evolve
in this way.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Steph wasted no time showing off the new, finer details
of his game in the fifteen to sixteen season. Chef Curtain,
as Drake first called him in a twenty thirteen song
zero to one hundred, was cooking with the sauce from
the jump, scoring forty in his first game, then fifty
three in his third game, both coming against the poor
New Orleans Pelicans.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Got babit switched out on a hurry for three and
fifty one.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Fuck, he makes believers out of it, but they still
don't get.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Up any closer.
Speaker 12 (11:40):
Hurry, He's going to go to the line.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
He hits New Orleans for forty opening night.
Speaker 13 (11:48):
And sitting on fifty two right now fifty three.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Step talked to Warriors sideline with Porter ros Goold on
Blue Day after the game about his ever lengthening range.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
So hard this season.
Speaker 14 (12:02):
It looks like you are getting very comfortable taking deep, deep,
deep deep threes.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Are you working on that? I mean, what is your range?
Is there anywhere that you hesitate?
Speaker 15 (12:12):
I mean, with that reason, bruh, I hope that I
keep making him. It gives me that much more confidence.
Is if you mess a couple in a row, No,
I get a little bit close if we keep shooting.
But I mean, as long as I'm making him, I'll
keep taking them.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Within those but then rhythm.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
That fifty three point game would already be, by advanced
statistical measure, his best complete game of the season, but
it was just the beginning of jaw dropping shooting performances.
He was in such a comfort zone to start this season,
Curry put on some of the more efficient shows of
his career, like the time he visited his hometown of
Charlotte on December second, with his father Dell watching, as
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he normally does in these contests because he's the color
analyst on the Hornets TV broadcast. Curry dropped forth, but
he did so on just eighteen shots with four free throws.
It sounds like a mathematical riddle, but he managed forty
points because he hit fourteen of his eighteen shots for
a seventy eight percent clip, including eight of his eleven
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three point attempts.
Speaker 16 (13:21):
Curry just incredible, Hope, That's what he does. He is
the best shooter on the planet today and he knows it.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
He delivered. Now, I can totally understand if you're confused
given the reaction of that crap. But yes, that game
was in sharp. It was a road game. Until it
was After that game, the Warriors twentieth of the season,
Curry's team still hadn't lost. They were undefeated and stayed
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so for another four games after that. It would immediately
spark the question of whether this team could break the
Chicago Bulls nineteen ninety six mark of seventy two to
ten as the greatest regular season ever, and the twenty
four wins to open the campaign broke the record for
the longest win streak to start a season by nine games.
It was a magical run in the midst of a
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magical run, two ninety one Boston by one Curry.
Speaker 16 (14:27):
Wow, I want to tell you if that is one
of the best huts I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Anybody think I'm ne'.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
A minute to go in the game, Green they want,
you know, they want Curry handling the ball and Harry coups.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
There it goes, ooh, you didn't be that wasn't just
another roadkie. That was teeny Garden in Boston.
Speaker 17 (14:50):
Don't think we didn't hear a good amount of cheers
mixed in with those groans. The Warriors were becoming a
phenomenon everywhere, but it was missing something someone.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
To be more precise, Steve Kerr had not been a
part of it. Two days into training camp, the Warriors
coach decided to take time off to address complications from
what was supposed to be a simple back procedure to
repair a ruptured disc.
Speaker 18 (15:18):
So you know, when you when you have a surgery,
you asked, you know, what are the what are the risks?
And so I, my, my, my surgery was the least
risky of any vacks. You know, it's the most basic
micro diskected me where there you have a ruptured disc
and they're just taking the pieces of the discount. And
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so I asked about what the risks were, and I said, well, okay,
well what are the chances of that? And I'm not
going to get into all the you know, the medical
detail of what happened, but basically the chances were incredibly
slim that anything would go wrong, but they did.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
What had been considered routine far as back surgeries go
turned into a nightmare. During the operation in twenty fifteen,
Kerr's dura, the membrane surrounding the spinal cord was accidentally cut,
allowing some cerebro spinal fluid to leak. The leak caused
severe headaches and fatigue, and by September of twenty fifteen,
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Kerr needed another surgery to address it. He was still
recovering from said surgery when training camp started, so the
riggers that come with coaching were impossible for him, and
the recovery would last far longer than the forty three
games he missed.
Speaker 18 (16:37):
So it was pretty rough and life changing and changed
everything in my life in terms of how how I
had to approach things, how I had to work to
get my body right, how I had to work to
manage the chronic pain that ensued headaches. It was a
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challenge of a lifetime and remains that. You know, that
was the biggest thing that I will ever face because
health trump's all, you know, the other stuff is all
all dependent on good health, you know, enjoying your life
and family and your work and it all is dependent
on health. So it was a tough, tough time.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It was terrible.
Speaker 18 (17:22):
It was terrible. I mean I was I was thrilled for.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
The team, but I felt left out.
Speaker 18 (17:26):
You know, I'm laying at home on my bed and
watching this dominant team win night after night, and I'm
not there to enjoy being part of it. Yeah, it was.
It was rough.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Rick Welts, Warriors, team president at the time, compared this
extended stretch to the time Curry was battling ankle injuries.
There was uncertainty surrounding the future of one of the
key and most treasured figures of the organization.
Speaker 19 (17:57):
Here's Wells one of my scariest times, you know, in
terms of the people that you're around and you see,
you know, the challenges that they face. And just as
you described, I mean just his face was a different color,
like he just wasn't uh, you know, you could just
see what he was battling and heroically but but still,
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you know, pain is pain, and there's just no way
to completely avoid it or basket and you know, stepping
away in the midst of you know, an amazing run
playoff run right, and not knowing again if you're going
to be healthy enough to come back. For the same
reasons we talked about with Steph, just at that point
it was such a beloved part of the organization that
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it was it was much more a personal thing than
it was like value to the team thing, because he
really wanted for him to recover in a way that
he could enjoy life the way that he always enjoyed life,
because that that that life joy he shared with everybody
around him and continues to to this day.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The warriors near spotless play for half that season didn't
mask the pain for Kerk, but it did take attention
away from the fact he was out. In fact, as
memory serves, there wasn't that much national sympathy for Kerr
because we really didn't know how bad the complications were.
There were, however, raging debates about whether Kerr deserved credit
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for the wins. Those thirty nine wins and four losses
where the Warriors were coached by assistant Luke Walton, those
were credited to Steve Kerr. It was a technicality that
stirred so much debate it even reached Kerr directly before
he came back to the side, well maybe not directly.
Speaker 18 (19:49):
The last few weeks before I came back, I was
traveling with the team before I started coaching, and we
were in Portland and Luke Walton and I went to
dinner with a couple of the other coaches and he
jumped in an uber and Luke's in the front seat.
I'm behind the driver and the driver says, hey, you're
Luke Walton and he goes yeah. He goes, man, it's
it's it's bull that coach Kerr is getting credit for
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all your wins. I mean, you're like thirty nine and
two and they and I read the other day they're
given the given the credit to coach Kerr. He gets
the wins on his record, and we just it was
it was so fun.
Speaker 20 (20:24):
We ran with it, you know. We all started chirping
away like yeah, it's such cool like and he's too
like that guy, you know, and he's taking credit for
and he's not even here.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Fraser was one of the coaches in that uber. He
remembers Walton nailing the dismount. At the end of the
car ride.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
We get to the restaurant, we got out of the
car and Luth looks at the driver, said, Hey, what
your name? Guy's mad. He's like came out meet Steve Kerr. Guy,
guy who turned like ghostly white. It's funny that you know,
and Steve's got a good sense of Umisoda's luke.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So Kerr would struggle with back pain and headaches even
after returning, still occasionally taking time away from the team,
including during the twenty sixteen playoffs. As a sideline reporter,
I'd get access to Kerr before games along with the
rest of the broadcast team, and around this time he
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often looked and sounded miserable. He tried to be as
pleasant as he'd always been and share stories like he
always had, but you can tell he was grinning through pain.
He couldn't sit properly in his chair. His face was
some combination of gray and pale green. His smile was
certainly forced, and this was after he'd been back for
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some time. Needless to say, Kerr absolutely needed those forty
three games off. And while Walton's part in this usually
just restarts the debate about who deserves the wins, the
assistant coach who's now with the Detroit Pistons deserves a
ton of credit for nurturing this dynasty at a key period.
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Bruce Fraser noticed Kerr's condition at the start of training
camp and notified Welton of what might come.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
I don't want to sound like some whisper or some
of here, but I went to Luke and I said,
you you should be ready to coach this team. And
he's like, what I said, I don't know if he's
going to be able to do it, and he looked
at me like I was crazy. I said, you better
start preparing. And to credit to Luke, you know, Luke
prepared and was had the respect of the players in
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a good way where he was he was a relevant
former player and capable, very very bright basketball mind. You
don't always get that through just talking to him because
he's pretty laid back, you know, California draws, but he's
very very bright mind and the player is Actually our
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team was so such a well oiled machine at that
point after that first year and all the patterns that
we had rehearsed and gotten better at with what we
were doing. That credit to those guys. They they not
only were really good at, you know, the things we
had put in, but they gave Luke a lot of
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rope and wanted to do well for him too, so
he had the respect of the players. I think they
knew that they gave him rope with some of our
you know ato's, and they came execution me. Luke and
I had a kind of a running joke. We had
a play called dive roll, which was just sort of
fake ball screen into a high ball screen for Steph.
And anytime we weren't certain of what we may want
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to do, Luke would looked at me and say dive
roll and start laughing because we knew that that was
going to be the ball into STEP's hands and there's
a good chance something good was going to happen.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Behind Steph. The Warriors dived and rolled to a thirty
nine and four record on pace to break the record
for the best season ever. The difference in Curry was evident.
His three point attempts jumped from eight point one in
his first MVP season to eleven point two to a
game in the fifteen to sixteen season, yet he shot
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those with even better efficiency. His scoring increased by more
than six points to a league leading thirty point one
a game, the largest leap ever for an MVP. Steph
finished fourth in the Most Improved voting that year also
but lost in a landslide to Portland CJ. McCullum. Just
like Rookie of the Year back in OH nine, Steph
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probably should have won this award too. If there was
one moment where you could identify how confident Curry felt
in what would be his second MVP season, and the
moment the entire NBA realized Curry must be guarded anywhere
and everywhere. It was at the end of an overtime
game in Oklahoma City on February twenty seven. After the break,
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we hear from Mike Breen himself on what may be
the most memorable single shot in Steph Curry's career and
the origin of the double bang. Klay Thompson had already
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scored thirty two, Draymond Green had fourteen assists, six steals,
and four block shots, and yet the Warriors in thunder
wearin overtime and tied at one eighteen. Russell Westbrook missed
a jumper with eight seconds remaining, which Andre Iguidala rebounded
and kicked over to Curry. Having already nailed eleven three
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pointers in this game, Curry casually brought the ball up
the left side of the court, and when he was
parallel to the r in the thunder logo mere steps
past half court, Curry launched one of the gutsiest regular
season shots, a thirty seven foot bomb that had everyone shot.
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He heard this call at the top of the episode,
but it's well worth hearing again. They do have a
time out decide.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Not to use of Curry quite on.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
A step of.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Curry what six steps of a second remating but probably
a choice of stuff.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
But continues.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
If Andre Rogerson, the defender on that play, who recognized
the situation a smidge too late, was the most shot
by Steph's launch, then Mike Breen was clearly second. Breen
had already coined the term bangon for whenever a player
would hit a big shot. This shot by Curry was
the first double bang of Breen's career. There would be
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a handful of others over the years, but this was
the double bang origin moment.
Speaker 13 (26:54):
That was the epitome of the self confidence that he
has and has always had. And you know, and so
he'll tell you all the time, his self confidence is
from all the work put into getting to that point.
But there was nobody in the building but Steph Curry,
who thought he was going to put off the shot
when he did, he had a little extra time. The
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thunder didn't think he was going to shoot it there.
I certainly didn't think he was going to shoot it there.
I had to play catch up on the call because
I didn't expect it, and just again's that's the ultimate
self confident shot by the greatest shooter who's ever played.
It's a complete out of body experience. I don't plan it.
It just was so shocking and it happened so quickly
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that I kind of lost my mind, and I remember
thinking after like, did I go over the top there?
Because I felt like I that's as much as I
ever lost it on a call. But it the moment
deserved it because of who he was, what they were doing,
and what he just did.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
This was already four months into STEP's unanimous MVP season,
and the surprise were still coming. Defenses didn't know what
to do with him, and the wins were piling up.
Entering April of that season, the Warriors were sixty eight
and seven. That meant they could afford to lose two
of the final seven games and still break the Chicago
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Bulls record of seventy two and ten. That seemed like
a guarantee. This team hadn't lost more than two games
in any month of the season. Surely going five and
two would be a cakewalk to end it. Not so fast.
On April first, the Warriors, in what seemed like a prank,
suffered their first home loss of the season to the
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Boston Celtics. It was April and Golden State had been
undefeated at.
Speaker 12 (28:47):
Home, no home losses this season. Golden State's gonna need
a miracle to keep that. Going down three to eight
point three to go, it is living stint to trigger
two players down, no timeouts, has to get it in
three at the top, to Curry.
Speaker 21 (29:06):
Step fix free for the time to go, Timpson to
barn stepp back free for the time. And the Boston
Celtics have stopped the record run at home of the
Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Then, after a recovery win against the Blazers, the Warriors
lost another home game, this one feeling even more like
a joke because it was to the lowly Minnesota Timberwolves
behind a career best thirty five points from Shabbaz Mohammad,
Remember him, It's okay if you don't.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Bosma, I mean ol has fed off fire. He has
thirty ports.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
That meant Golden State needed to win its final four
games to break the record. For context, seventy to ten
is one of those sports numbers that people just knew,
especially NBA fans. It was Michael Jordan's nineteen ninety six
Bulls team, the first full season after he came back
from retirement. They went on to dominate the postseason and
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were widely considered the best team ever.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
By five lighty shirts are trampis show that choke.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Before it six year as like a three bust products, eighty.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Shot shot, bar shoring wild one day shot.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Nike even released a seventy too to ten pair of
Jordan eleven's that were all the rage I had a pair,
truly cementing that season as one that will live in
the minds of basketball fans forever.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
And the first time in the history of the NBA
that one player has won the regular season Most Valuable Player,
All Star, Most Valuable Flier, and NBA Finals, a tremendous
accomplishment by Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So for the Warriors to best that, it would not
only mean they'd be in the conversation at the best
team ever, but it would mean anything short of a championship.
Would be wildly disappointed that come playoffs, everyone's record starts O.
And oh, so, what does the regular season wins record
really mean if it didn't get you any extra advantages
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in the postseason. Yes, the Spurs were giving chase and
finished with sixty seven wins, but there was still a
six game gap between the two teams at season's end.
In fact, when the Spurs and Warriors played on April tenth,
the game was meaningless in the standings and only mattered
because the Warriors were chasing that record. In the second
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to last game of the season, the Warriors needed overtime
to beat a thunder team that sat both Kevin Durant
and Russell Westbrook. So the road to seventy three wins
most turbulent at the end when the games didn't actually
mean that much. In the regular season finale, Golden State
faced a Memphis team that still had something to play for,
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jockeying for playoff position with the Rockets and Mavericks. The
game was such a big deal as they chased the record.
ESPN broadcast the game simultaneous to Kobe Bryant's final game
on ESPN two. The Warriors looked like they'd coast to
the record win, going up by fourteen points in the
first quarter, So most of the viewing audience stuck with
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the Kobe game after that, and those folks were rewarded
by watching Kobe drop sixty in his final game.
Speaker 12 (32:42):
Well, Kobe, give them one last gamer. Bryant ti the
move with the jumper.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Ye I have sneakers for that game also. But the
greater historical accomplishment was happening in Golden State. The Warriors,
behind a player who'd soon be named the first unanimous MVP,
would finish the best regular season in NBA history.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
That's official number seventy three.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
The greatness regular season.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
In NBA history now belongs to the twenty sixteen gold
and State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Steph talked with Doris Burke on the court after the game.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
What kind of.
Speaker 14 (33:24):
Character has been required from your guys in the pursuit
of this historic marks?
Speaker 15 (33:30):
That's everything for us. We have There's so many guys
that sacrifice that. Everybody has a role in this team,
and you can say they come in every night with
that focus of playing a run the best of ability
and just knowing that's gonna be the best way for
rest of win games. So practice days, travel days, Dana
days fifty all being locked in and tider together, that's
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gonna take me.
Speaker 14 (33:51):
Yeah, in what way did the pursuit of this mark
help you? And what will ultimately be your goal, which
is a championship? How did this pursuit help that?
Speaker 15 (34:00):
I mean, it just keeps us focus down the stretch.
We don't have any room for er. You know, we're
getting everything's best shot, and for us to keep that
playoff kind of mentality and that playoff focus for our
ultimate goals, obvious championship. These last two weeks have been
mentally and physical challenges, So I think it's made us
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better and we'll be fresh with this wecaus.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
At the time, no one would publicly question the decision
to attempt to set the record despite not needing it
to claim the number one overall seat. That's probably because
at the time no one could envision this Warrior's team
losing in the postseason. But in the Warriors' locker room,
there were private discussions about how to approach the final
few games. Andrew Boget sounds regretful when he talks about
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this team decision, the.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
Plays in that locker room that wanted to go for
seventy three and nine. There were plays that will like,
let's just be healthy, and I get it, like we're
going to create history seventy three and nine. But the
argument from the guys that were like let's just be
healthy is seventy three and nine doesn't mean I don't
win the championship. So we as a group, the majority,
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were like, Okay, let's just we're going to roll the
dice and go for it. We probably could have risted
guys towards the end of that season, made sure that
we're fine for the playoffs. So whatever is in the playoffs,
we'll go guys banged up.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Right, Injuries can happen in the postseason also, and one
injury in particular did happen in these twenty sixteen playoffs.
Steph Curry didn't suffer the most serious of setbacks, but
it was easily the most significant of this postseason, and frankly,
it probably would have happened even if the Warriors had
rested Steph down the stretch of the regular season. In
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the first round against the Rockets. Just before halftime of
Game four, Golden State had its worst scare possible. Curry
had already missed the previous two games of this series
with a sprained ankle he suffered in Game one, and
he wasn't playing like his usual As the final seconds
were ticking off the second quarter clock and Trevor Ariza
was dribbling up the floor for one last shot, James
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Harden and Dinazis Mantiunis clipped feet as they were heading
up court. That sent Mantiunis sliding on his back for
about ten feet, leaving a streak of sweat on the
floor behind him. As Curry was trying to get in
defensive position in front of Arisa, he slid on that
fresh Montiuna sweat, sending his feet spraying in opposite directions.
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The inside of Curry's right knee hit the court and
he immediately grabbed at it, writhing in pain. As the
halftime buzzer sounded, he not up.
Speaker 13 (36:42):
Yet, still time remaining, Orisa trying to find some room.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Curry falls down and grabs his right leg.
Speaker 13 (36:49):
Curry asking for help to get up.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
He fell awkwardly and immediately grabbed his right leg and
you see him hobbling.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Right now, Curry suffered that great one mcl spring on
April twenty four. He didn't play again until May ninth,
and probably would have sat out longer if it was
the regular season. Now, Steph did have forty points off
the bench in that comeback game, leading the Warriors to
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an overtime win and hitting the crowd with an I'm
back after one of his five May threes.
Speaker 13 (37:24):
Warriors could add to their lead.
Speaker 22 (37:26):
Now Curry left wide open right between the eyes and
then on the bench and details the fans I am back.
I am back for he is in a big way too.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
But for the rest of these playoffs, the playoffs where
Golden State needed a championship to complete a dream season,
Curry would look slightly off. Steph would need his splash
brother to step up. After the break we learn how
Game six, Clay was born. Steph Curry would hit five
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threes to close out the Blazers in five games and
reach the conference finals. But against the Thunder step would
have two of his worst playoff games, Games one and four,
and the record setting Warriors suddenly found themselves down three
games to one to Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
That is the first time first season a Warrior for them,
after having the possible seven FIA Hive Thunder or conference
last seasons under the eight finals that they lost showing
it all at out there flashing Game five about a
possible close out so nice.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
The next few games would spark discussion around Curry. Was
he actually physically limited by the knee injury or was
a nation full of Steph Curry fans creating excuses for
a player who we wanted to see succeed. In the
Game one loss at home, Steph shot forty percent with
seven turnovers. In a crucial Game four, he shot it
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even worse, for just nineteen points with six turnovers. Whether
or not Curry was physically capable of carrying Golden State
was unclear. What was clear he wouldn't have to do
it alone. The Warriors won Game five with the Splash
Brothers combining for fifty eight. Then in Game six, Clay
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Thompson managed to take all the attention away from Steph's
knee with a season saving Game six performance that earned
him the simple but fitting nickname Game six Clay.
Speaker 8 (39:56):
Eight point lead for a fog.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Chris Thompson a.
Speaker 16 (40:01):
Just checked by it pops out of.
Speaker 8 (40:02):
Play now roll those fed a final twelve at of
the season.
Speaker 16 (40:10):
Right Mada.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Top shot a rate fall of three top way.
Speaker 8 (40:18):
Topsho Roveros has three quarter by off reapond the times made.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
In what was his signature playoff game in a career
filled with them, Thompson scored nineteen of his forty one
points in the fourth quarter. It was a fourth quarter
that began with the Warriors trailing by eighth and their
season on the brink.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Over Give him alive for up Topson, time of shooting,
water shot, fight play Chompson.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
He is putting off a top difficult three point shot exhibition.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
That's all the heart and will. He's challenging itself. He
doesn't want to go home unless it's.
Speaker 6 (40:59):
The play game seven.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
The fourth quarter started with three threes from Clay to
keep his team close. After Steph played his part and
tied the game at ninety nine with his sixth and
final three of the game, Thompson would hit his eleventh
three moments later, giving the Warriors the lead for good.
Then Clay hit two free throws to close out the
game and send the series to a game seven. In open.
Speaker 22 (41:25):
Again.
Speaker 8 (41:25):
It was Equidado Thompson fires for three, Yes, Golden State
one three.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
The Warriors went on to win a nervy game seven
behind thirty six from Steph and another six threes from Clay,
reaching their second straight NBA Finals. They'd prepare to face
Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers again.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
Right, we'll cut it out, Lash, We'll shall here.
Speaker 8 (42:00):
Oh Colorida, Lania sto coming over the tenth two out
of two hundred twenty three to win a Rush threw
twel We were getting still walk now.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Had the Thunder went on to win that Western Conference finals,
a matchup between Kevin Durant and Lebron James would have
been a welcome sight for the NBA. Durant had been
trying to reach James's level of winning, and it would
have been his second chance at Lebron in the finals,
having lost to the Miami Heat in twenty twelve. But
there was something about a rematch between Lebron and Steph
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that felt like it was the best possible option, even
if they had just based off the previous year. Deep down,
it was only right there we got an opportunity to
play Colden State after lap and last year me personally,
I wanted to see Gold State again the force of
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James and the Big three Caves versus the grace of
the Splash Brothers, or simply could Lebron v. Kerry be
the modern day Magic b Birth. It would be a
matchup that would spoil there happen for four straight fights.
But NBA fans weren't tired of this matchup just yet.
Mike Breen called all of those fins and he certainly
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didn't mind the rematch.
Speaker 9 (43:22):
And you can't.
Speaker 13 (43:23):
You can't think that way because every season is so different,
and just from the standpoint, if they brought back the
exact same rosters the next season, it's so different. Then
you throw in injuries, you throw in contract situations, and
can you stay together, So there's no guarantee even if
you're the best team by far, even if you come
back home the next year, there's so many things that
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can go differently, and that's the hard way to predict,
both with those two teams, and probably the fans of
twenty eight other franchises will completely disagree with me. Both
with those two teams. If it did happen, you knew
you had something special because not only were they great teams,
but you're looking at two of the greatest players to
ever play at their particular positions and overall in the NBA,
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and the fact that it could lead to a rivalry
and one of them is going for a dynasty. It's
the stuff that makes history and what makes the game
so great.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
The problem for the Warriors at the moment was health.
Curry's injuries were already noted, but there was another key
thing the last year's Finals MVP that was also working
through some knack and pink. It was exactly the vision
Boge didn't want to see after his team made the
choice to go for seventy three wins.
Speaker 9 (44:36):
Andre Udala was dealing with a bunch of stuff. Steph
was dealing with stuff. The Goodala thing was big because
he was the guy that limited Lebrondi before. He's back
couldn't moved. He's back was meant up the whole final series.
We start well, we blow him out in the first
two games. It's obviously three to one, and then then
the Draymond thing happens.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
Ah, Yes, the Draymond thing. The Golden State Warriors had
the most versatile defender in the Lee League and Draymond Green.
If they had one of the best communicators in the
league in Draymond Green, they have the perfect compliment to
the Splash Brothers and Draymond, But they also have one
of the louder voices in NBA history, one of the
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most demonstrative players in NBA history, and a player who
often needs to play with unbridled emotion just to get
the best out of himself, especially in the biggest games.
In Game four of the twenty sixteen Finals, with his
team potentially on the verge of winning a second straight
championship and after the record setting regular season preparing to
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hold the fictional but meaningful title of best team ever Green,
lets some of those qualities get the worst of them,
and with one angry swipe of an arm, he changed
the course.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
At sports history, greated James, joying at each other, We'll
play the tenures like a dollar, the full off that
goal and a couple of fouls gonna be called on.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
The next dub dynasty. I wanted to see it, man,
I wanted to see the royal rumble. And I was
so excited when we got eight in the Finals of
twenty sixteen, because that's what it felt like when we
were going over the Bay Bridge.
Speaker 6 (46:17):
I just remember being on the back of the bus
with all our guys and you know, Lebron speaking that
you know this, it's already written. Man.
Speaker 18 (46:25):
They opened up the door sometimes that that anger comes out,
and in some ways we're similar in that regula.
Speaker 13 (46:33):
You just knew that that was one of the most
spectacular plays in the heat of the moment, at the
most critical moment that I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
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