Steph Curry is one of the most famous basketball players on the planet, but he’s still pinching himself every chance he gets, even in his 17th NBA season.
Curry has an Olympic gold medal, is a 11-time NBA All-Star, 11-time All-NBA member, two-time scoring champ, four-time NBA champion, and two-time league MVP, but he tries to stay as humble as possible.
“It’s kind of interesting from my perspective because, and this sounds cheesy as hell, but it’s still surreal,” Curry said, via NBC Sports. “It doesn’t necessarily make sense what this journey has been like. And to your point, I can go back to different moments where you knew you were crossing a different threshold, but you didn’t really give yourself enough time to really settle into whatever was happening, because that just raised the expectations of like now what’re you going to do? From a fan perspective, fans showed up at road arenas, or wearing your All-Star jersey. Just the idea that we were raising the profile of the franchise in terms of individual success on top of team success.
“It’s kind of like a blur to me when I think about it. But when you brought up the question, I could vividly go back to that moment for sure. And I can go back to coming back to the hotel after the 54-piece at MSG. The TV was on SportsCenter and I got wrapped up in the vortex of watching the 60-minute loop, and it came back on and they were still talking about it. And we had lost that game. All those moments, you get a little taste of it. Like, alright, now what’re you going to do next? So for any competitor, it’s kind of hard to, until you’re really done, it’s hard to reminisce if you will because you’re never really comfortable in the success.”
He later added, “…Obviously, you’re blessed with everything you’ve been given, the platform, the notoriety, because so much good has come out in terms of things you want to do on and off the court. It is different, for sure. But I grew up in the league watching my dad in Charlotte, so I kind of knew what stardom and, I hate using the word, fame, is. But you never let it change who you are, but you got to appreciate the appreciation of others.”
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