Stephen Curry: ‘I want to do this for as long as I can, but the clock’s ticking’

Curry is 16 seasons into this and 36 years on Earth, and they’re still there, one generation seeping into the next, making him fight for every inch. Nobody else, not Luka or Kyrie or Tatum or LeBron, puts up with this much aggravation. There’s pressure from baseline to baseline, that’s a given, with double-teams routinely starting at half court, from a bunch of guys either trying to make their name or keep it. “It’s fatiguing, but I love it,” Curry says. “It’s the game within the game, and you have to find some lightheartedness in it to deal with the pressure.” There are times when he’ll see the second half of that double-team — always taller, always heavier, always younger — storming toward him at half court and laugh to himself. Are we really doing this tonight? -via ESPN / January 7, 2025

Anthony Slater: Steph Curry is out tomorrow against the Grizzlies. Managing that knee tendinitis. Front side of a weekend back-to-back. That should clear him for Sunday vs the Kings. Brandin Podziemski remains out. -via Twitter @anthonyVslater / January 3, 2025

The Warriors snapped a 22-game streak in which they failed to shoot 50% from the field. That is why Curry said he wanted to celebrate his first 3, which opened the game, to get his teammates going. “Sometimes when you have a little injury or something that’s random, it kind of forces you to focus a little bit,” Curry said. “And just be free. [I was] just happy that I got to play. I was kind of unsure going into the day. I didn’t get many attempts in the first half, but all four of them are really good in-rhythm shots and then from there you’re kind of just flowing off of the joy of things going our way and having a day where Dennis [Schroder] hit three in the first half, JK [Jonathan Kuminga] came in and hit some big shots, Moses [Moody], everybody was kind of just feeling the rhythm of the night.” -via ESPN / January 3, 2025