Can Steph Curry Save the Warriors One More Time?

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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When Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors won 12 of their first 15 games this season, it seemed they might have solved what's ailed them the past few years. But in the ensuing weeks and months, wins have been exceedingly hard to come by, and with Curry playing fewer minutes than ever. Warriors fans are growing increasingly restless. So with Golden State taking the national TV stage against the Timberwolves Wednesday night, Tim Keown shares what he learned from a sit down with Curry and explores whether this team is doing right by him. And don’t forget the playlist, featuring our favorite stories of 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tim Kewan, you've been watching Stephen Curry play for years.
0:05.4	When you watch and play now in this 2025 version, tell us what you see.
0:10.5	David, I think what I see first off is at 36 years old, the way Steph Curry has, in a way, perfected a certain style of playing.
0:23.1	And no fouls is Curry.
0:25.1	Lines it up and knocks it down.
0:27.2	Five three-pointers for Curry.
0:29.2	The game is tied.
0:30.7	Lakers need time out.
0:32.3	The way he moves and how every small movement on the court engenders a response from everyone else on the court.
0:40.5	Curry gets it back in the corner. Heads up a three.
0:43.0	Oh, he put it in.
0:45.0	Steph Perry knocks it down. One point game.
0:49.0	He's always been the focus of everything that takes place out there on the floor. But now that that focus
0:57.8	seems heightened as he is more of a solo act on this on this Warriors team. Looking, looking,
1:06.5	Curry gets free. Curry puts up a three. Man! He ties the game!
1:13.6	This is a team that needs vintage Steph Curry more than ever.
1:19.4	And yet, at the same time, there's this paradox at work that they're using him less than ever
1:26.0	at a time when they need him more than ever.
1:29.4	He openly admits that he can't do what he used to be able to do every single night.
1:35.0	It's more of a measured approach now.
1:36.5	It's like taking and choosing your spots and understanding how to manage an 82 game schedule
1:41.8	and all you do to play else you're fresh.
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