Watching Steph Curry play basketball can be a spiritual experience. When he gets in the zone, he does feats that nobody else in the world can do. It was just over a year ago that he transcended this mortal plane to beat France in the Olympics. But that’s just one of the more recent examples of his capabilities.
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Watching Steph do his thing on TV is one thing. Watching him live and in person is another. That’s why so many people show up as early as possible to Warriors games to see him warm up. For some, that’s the main attraction.
Now imagine playing against Steph and being helpless as he puts you in the proverbial blender again and again. That’s what Moses Moody experienced when he first joined the Warriors as a rookie in 2021. On the latest episode of The Young Man and The Three, Moody described his ‘Welcome to the NBA’ moment that Steph was all too happy to give him.
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“One of my first times, I ripped him, and I’m a rookie. I’m just coming in, so I’m feeling good about it,” Moody said. “I just felt everybody in the room like, ‘Ohhhh,’ like, ‘He don’t know.'”
Stealing it from Steph was the worst thing Moody could have done. You know the part in a movie where the underdog hero punches the villain, and all it does is make the villain mad?
Steph has spent his career being viewed as the underdog due to his smaller stature and unlikely path to stardom. But in this case, he was the big baddie, and he definitely got even.
“Then Steph do what Steph do,” Moody said with a helpless laugh. “He goes crazy and all that. I’m like, ‘OK, that feeling was right!’ I knew what I felt. Everybody knew what was about to go down.”
Steph is so singular that even his trash talk is unique. “He’s not loud. He don’t talk crazy, but he’s so good that when he’s talking, it’s like he’s helping you almost. He’s just playing. He don’t talk a lot. It’s not in a conniving type of way. It’s genuine,” Moody said.
Steph and Moody have been teammate for four seasons. So he got to see a lot more of what Curry can do. Thankfully for him, it’s mostly to other people.
Steph already had three rings by the time Moody came around. And he got another one in 2022. Plans for another championship were short-circuited this past postseason when Steph pulled his hamstring in Game 1 of the Western Conference semis against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Curry never returned in that series, and the Warriors lost four straight without him.
Golden State will try to go on another run this year with a healthy Steph and a full year of Jimmy Butler. Moody will also be counted on to step up, especially if Jonathan Kuminga is dealt before the season begins.
