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🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Today's episode of The Old Man and The Three is a bucket list episode for us. Our guest is Golden State Warriors guard and greatest shooter of all time, Stephen Curry. Steph was gracious enough to give us almost 90 minutes of stories, insight and so much more. Topics include: the immediate importance of Klay Thompson's personal success as it relates to the team's success, Steph's thoughts on JJ "hating" on him on First Take, dissecting Steph's various forms of trash talking moves and the origin of his look-away three pointers, how he developed his confidence at an early age, what his recruiting process was like and how he ended up at Davidson, idolizing LeBron James in college, Steph almost getting traded to The Phoenix Suns on draft night, his rookie year struggles, JJ's favorite Steph moves, the time JJ made Steph fall on the court, The Golden State Warriors first NBA Finals and whether or not he feels he should've won Finals MVP over Andre Iguodala, what it meant to him to win Finals MVP last season, that legendary 2016 Warriors season and winning 73 games, getting beat by LeBron James and Kyrie Irving in The NBA Finals, how he, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and The Warriors stayed motivated during the first dynasty, the dominance of The Kevin Durant era of The Golden State Warriors, a great story about Drake not remembering Klay Thompson's name at a concert in San Francisco, how he is able to reach the 'flow state' of basketball, why The 2022 NBA Finals against The Boston Celtics meant so much to him, breaking down the emotions of Game 4 of The 2022 NBA Finals and MUCH more.
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0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on One Dree Plus. |
0:04.5 | Welcome to the Old Men of the Three with JJ Reddick and Tommy Alter presented by Cash App and brought to you by three, four, two productions. |
0:10.7 | This is episode 135, Steph Curry. Steph will be joining us in a little bit here in Houston, Texas. Tommy. |
0:21.0 | When you do the Mount Rushmore of the Old Men of the Three Podcasts, |
0:26.4 | this has to be on the Mount Rushmore. |
0:28.8 | I would say so. |
0:30.5 | I would say when we started this show, this was one that was on the bucket list, as our first or second cast. |
0:43.0 | I think the term is called White Whales. Is that right? White Whales, like something you're chasing, something you dream about. |
0:49.6 | And I've got a list of three people that are like my bucket list. |
0:55.7 | And I have been since I started podcasting seven years ago, Steph has been on that the whole time. |
1:02.4 | Happy to have sat down with him a night in between games here in Houston, Texas. |
1:07.2 | I called the Warriors game last night, took the red eye after the game, got to Houston. |
1:11.7 | You flew in last night. Jason came in from Oklahoma. We're here. We're getting this done. |
1:17.6 | It's going to be awesome. So you called the game last night, you mentioned. What do you think? |
1:22.1 | I was really happy because Clay had a good game and so much has been made about his struggles |
1:28.0 | going into last night, but he was solid, shot around 50% from the field, got off to a great start. |
1:33.2 | It was interesting. Early in that game, Steph, I think, made a point to look for Clay to get everyone |
1:41.9 | involved in the offense. We had the audio from Steve Kerr during different time outs and |
1:48.4 | Kerr kept stressing one more pass, one more pass, one more pass. And if you look at their like a |
1:53.3 | cis percentage last night, it was amazing. Steph, of course, ended up with tennisists. |
1:58.0 | This is in a game coming off of 50 ball where maybe he comes out on a Friday ESPN game and tries |
2:03.6 | to go ballistic, but he recognizes how important Clay playing well is to that team. |
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