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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Stephen Curry

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Willie sits down with one of the greatest athletes of all time, Stephen Curry. He is out with a new documentary called "Underrated" that charts his rise from skinny college kid to basketball legend who has revolutionized the game.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of The Sunday Sit Down Podcast by thanks

0:10.4

as always for clicking and listening along.

0:13.2

Man, oh man, am I excited to bring you my conversation today with one of the greatest athletes

0:18.5

on the planet and one of the greatest basketball players to ever live.

0:22.6

He is the four-time world champion, two-time NBA MVP, and really at this point the undisputed

0:29.7

greatest shooter in the history of the game, Stephen Curry.

0:33.9

Steph is out with a new documentary, a really fascinating look at his own life.

0:39.2

It's called Stephen Curry underrated.

0:41.1

It's on Apple TV Plus and tells the story of his being perpetually well underrated.

0:47.1

Since he was a skinny little kid growing up in Charlotte, trying to live out his basketball

0:52.1

dream, but he was always too small, he was too thin, he was very skilled, his dad played

0:56.2

in the NBA del Curry, a great shooter in his own right, his brother Seth Curry, by the

1:00.6

way, played at Duke and now plays in the NBA as well.

1:05.0

Steph perpetually trying to prove himself since he was a tiny little kid and eventually

1:11.1

getting to do that at the college level at Davidson, which is just outside of Charlotte,

1:16.2

but that wasn't where he wanted to play.

1:17.7

He wanted growing up around Charlotte, wanted to play at Carolina or Duke or Wake Forest

1:22.1

or one of those big ACC schools, even his dad and his mother's alma mater Virginia

1:27.0

tech didn't offer him a scholarship.

1:29.1

So he went to Davidson and the basketball fans will remember in the 2008 NCAA tournament

1:34.4

led them to a magical run almost to the final four.

1:38.5

They lost by two points in the elite eight, but he became a national star during that incredible

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