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The Mind the Game podcast with LeBron James and Steve Nash just released part two of the Steph Curry interview, and they had a great conversation about the 2024 Olympics. But there's one moment from it that Steph Curry still laughs about.
"You know what's funny? We'd be at practice and and Debook would be like, 'And you hear, Aunt. All right, now we waiting on one of them Steph games. We waiting on one of them Steph games.' And Book would be like, 'Oh, it's it's coming. It's coming. It's coming.' And I'll be like, 'Oh, yeah.' And it's I can see it. You remember when I was doing the interview against uh is that Brazil? No, u Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico. Yeah. And they asked me that question like, 'Yo, your numbers, you know, your shots. You feel like uh you know, one of your marquee games is coming.' I was like, 'Yeah, I'm just staying patient.' I think it's And he was just walking by white when I said it. Hell yeah, it is." [laughter]
"The closing was insane. Like you carried over obviously that kind of you felt now, okay, now I'm here and I'm rolling. But like what's it like in those moments when you're just you're like, you know what, I'm not going to mess around. I'm just going to pull I'm just going to pull from like 28."
"There was no thought to it. I remember the conversation we had. Um they had just cut it to three. Mhm. Maybe hit the putback and I'm like, 'Yo, you get the ball, I'm coming to set a screen for you.' I actually wanted him go downhill, maybe get to the freezer line, like at least settle us down cuz I know us. He's great at that, you know, just from the killing of momentum for a second."
"When he threw that pass, like muscle memory just took over. Like I couldn't even tell you what I was thinking. No, I saw Yabaselli like bite on it on the left jab and once you see that, it's just reactionary and you make it like to the point I'm just you're just living with it. And then from there, we had uh we had intentionality on the possession. Didn't mean I was going to get every shot, but it just like we would get organized and, you know, settle the uh the uh the tempo down. And obviously, they all have to go in, but um I still laughing at the picture, [laughter] you and Katie over there, which you talking about when you was quadruple team. I can't believe you froze us out like that. Just shot that crazy I still you had the ball. There was two on you and he was you looked at him and he was like he threw it back and then I just like I gotta get something going. And oh my god. And I just saw this right. [laughter] We both over there like oh my goodness. NBA jam, bro. [laughter] NBA jam. We all play NBA Jam."
"In your mind, like I'm serious cuz I I I love to understand if you can express this. Like in those moments, what do you feel like? Are you are you now not even thinking now? You instinctively playing basketball."
"Yeah, the last three you see the rim. The the first the first one was again the conversation like I'm going to set a screen for you. He made the play. I reacted whatever. The second one uh Batum he he hesitated for a half a second. Half a second. Y and I got quick pump. Y and the third one's that was great basketball. The third one uh I got trapped. Swing swing the book baseline draw. That's like practice. And then it just happens that that's like the the follow through of like really good possessions after three minutes of horrible possessions."
"Like it was just everybody is just in flow state and I obviously the one you know finishing the play but it was it was just great basketball. The last one whatever that was he didn't you know he didn't see the rim on the last [laughter] one."
"What night time [snorts] everybody it's time to go to bed. I forgot about the rest of the time. I lost my mind. Yeah, I lost my mind. Play defense the next two possessions. [laughter] No, by the way, he thought they he thought a timeout happened last. [laughter] He ran down the whole right side, went around the base, looked at the looked at our teammates on the bench. I'm like, yo, yo, yo, we got a guard shield, bro. Like, we all [laughter] got the rebound. Then he passed it. Yeah. Live passed the book and then I was like, 'Yeah, we [snorts] good. We good.' [laughter] You almost tricked it off with the I went all I covered some ground. Yeah, he covered some [laughter] ground, bro."
"Tell us one of the best experience. Like it was everything. People like ask me all the time like, you know, finally got an opportunity to play with Steph. Like what was it? I was like everything and more. Like it was it was perfect. First person I text. I was just about to say that. The first person I text when we I was trying to assemble the team, whatever. First person I text, I said, 'Bro,' he said, 'Good willing injuries. I'm good injurywise. That's the plan.' I said, 'Say no more.'"
"Mhm. Say no more. That's amazing. That's how That's how it started."
"What do you think? This is How old are you guys now? You're 40 37. I'll be 41 in a month. 41. month and a half. Yeah, bro. You think you got an LA Olympics in? When is that? Is that next? The next one. 28. You already know my answer. So, [laughter] you don't even know. I will be watching it in comments. You did plenty of Olympics. Yes, man. You think you might? [snorts] It is the uh the opposite answer what I told him last year. is like, God willing, I still have the choice and the the physical option to be like, I could actually impact the team. I never say never, but I highly doubt it. I highly doubt it. Love to be a part of the movement. We can't top what we just top those last two games. That's the top. And just the moment like just we can't top those last two games, man. Like we those last two we literally played France and Paris for the final. the finals, you know, like that it would have been like in '08 like during the redeem team would be [laughter] to play China in the final, right? And and playing you guys especially the place must have been oh it's great. They had all the chance they had the songs going you know they had beat they had beat they had beat Canada they you know they was excited to play them but they was it was conversation like oh Canada going to be in the final four you know and they went in there and and beat up on Canada. They did. They needed you, man. [laughter] Shaved that nerve down. They did not need [laughter] the 50 51y old PG playing zone. [laughter] I got the corner. I got the corner, man."