Yahoo Sports activities senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill sat down with the famous person guard at USA Basketball males’s nationwide workforce camp in Las Vegas to debate his first run with the Olympic workforce and what it’ll imply to be on the identical squad as his longtime rival LeBron James. Watch the entire interview on Yahoo Sports activities’ YouTube web page.
Video Transcript
Right here had been first time Olympian Stephen, Curry Steph, for somebody your age, you realize, at this stage of your profession, what does being within the Olympics for the primary time imply to you, it means every part.
That is why, you realize, I used to be so excited and honored to have the chance to do it.
Conversations simply kinda began final fall.
Um You recognize, after the struggles for the, you realize, world championship workforce, which it occurs, the, the world’s getting higher, um we began speaking about, you realize, who would wanna decide to, you realize, this journey and the celebs needed to align, clearly, like there’s been two years, nicely, perhaps not simply the one 12 months in 2016 the place I wasn’t bodily proper to go play.
After which 21 I am unable to actually bear in mind why I did not, however simply to have this chance, such as you stated, the primary time, it is a type of issues that having a primary to get you, you realize, you’re feeling like a child once more and you realize, get the jitters earlier than the primary observe and I am positive I will have it earlier than the primary sport and having the total Olympic expertise.
So it means the world and I am excited to be right here.
What’s gonna be extra awkward having lebron as a teammate for an prolonged time frame or not having Klay Thompson as a teammate, you realize, have Ron as a teammate is like surreal as a result of you might have so many battles forwards and backwards.
You admire his sport, you realize what he is about and to see the work up shut and private day-after-day to see how, you realize, he prepares, uh how he talks and observe.
Like, I’ve by no means had that vantage level of him.
So simply excited to see how our video games complement one another and, and, you realize, construct that chemistry that is gonna assist lead this workforce.