Stephen Curry (Part 1)
Mind the Game
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a very special episode of Mind the Game. Today LeBron James and Steve Nash are thrilled to welcome in one of the all-time greats, Stephen Curry. In this episode, the 3 hall-of-famers do a deep dive into how Steph found his iconic shot and how he became so effective as a pick-and-roll and off-ball player. We also get into overcoming his early ankle problems through his conditioning. Steve reveals a hilarious story about how Steph was a major figure in his retirement story. And finally, a treat for all NBA fans, LeBron and Steph break down plays from their epic NBA Finals run. Thanks for watching Mind the Game. Part 2 drops in a couple week. See you there!
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| 0:00.0 | He might know this, but you deserve a little bit of putting me out to pasture, a little bit of my retirement story. |
| 0:06.1 | He sent you all back. |
| 0:08.8 | Oh, yeah, look at what I do. |
| 0:10.3 | Yeah, he sent you all back on. |
| 0:12.0 | Go ahead and put him on down. |
| 0:13.3 | It's not something I like to talk about in public, in public a lot. |
| 0:19.0 | We got to have an exclusive. |
| 0:56.8 | We got an exclusive. When he came in the league, I still felt like the big brother. I still feel like, you know, I got the upper hand. You know, then he started becoming who he is, and the pendulum shifted. And so my last two years were the Lakers. My second game of the Lakers, I bumped knees in Dame's first game with Dame and broke my tib-fib joint on the inside where it's way-bearing, it's a problem. And it's where the nerve goes. I already had nerve stuff, and I was never the same. I spent two years working out twice a day just to try to overcome it. So I come back my 18th training camp, and I'm like, I've been going so hard trying to get there. |
| 0:55.0 | I had a pretty good first precede. just to try to overcome it. So I come back my 18th training camp and I'm like, I've been going so hard trying to get there. |
| 0:57.0 | I had a pretty good first preseason game. |
| 0:59.0 | Like, I can't remember how I'm. |
| 1:01.0 | I think we drove home San Diego to back spasm the next morning. |
| 1:04.0 | I was just like, oh. |
| 1:05.0 | Then like, I don't know, I was doing all right. |
| 1:08.0 | And then I was like another flare up. |
| 1:10.0 | And it's just like my nerves were messed up. |
| 1:11.7 | I couldn't recover. |
| 1:12.7 | And I was like, well, I got to find out. |
| 1:14.6 | So, like, I had a week since I'd last play. And I was like, we're playing them in preseason. I'm like, I got to find out. Like, I have to play her. Can I play hurt? Or else, what's the point, right? |
| 1:24.7 | And so we went to play these guys preseason, like, Ontario, California or somewhere. |
| 1:28.7 | I don't even remember this. |
| 1:29.7 | I don't remember the point, right? And so we went to play these guys preseason like Ontario, California or somewhere. |
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