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The superstar guard explains why his team's recent championship, where they beat the Boston Celtics in 6 games, means a lot to him that the back-to-back championships won with Kevin Durant was playing for the Warriors.
Stephen Curry recently had a conversation with Sports Illustrated's Ashley Nicole Moss in which he was asked several questions and given a pair of choices.
The superstar guard was asked if he agreed with teammate Draymond Green's remarks that the 2022 championship for the Warriors was the most meaningful of the four championships since 2015.
Curry said, "Absolutely."
"You don't find me ugly crying on the court for no reason. That raw emotion that came out after Game 6 kind of signaled how much this meant to me, how much this meant to our team," said one of the basketball's all-time greatest shooters, as reported by CBS Sports.
He went on to explain that the first championship by the Golden State Warriors was a great achievement. "The next two were a kind of validation for trying to remain champions. But after these last three years, winning that one [2022], definitely the most special."
Moss then put Curry to the test by asking if he would prefer to keep the title he won in 2022 or the two he won in 2017 and 2018 with Kevin Durant.
Curry replied, "I want this one [2022]. "Give me this one, all day every day."
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Warriors With Durant Was a Superteam
Apparently, Stephen Curry knows the 2017 and 2018 championships were won with a team loaded with exceptional talents, led by Curry and Durant were perhaps the finest in basketball history.
However, the 2021-22 Warriors weren't outstanding by championship standards. Curry needed to play on a higher level for his team to triumph. Not because he wasn't great in his first three titles. He was. He could have won the Finals MVP award in 2015. In the Finals of 2017 and 2018, Curry averaged 27 points, nine assists, and eight rebounds each game.
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What four-time champ Stephen Curry achieved in June against a terrific Celtics defense that was trying to stop him, with Andrew Wiggins as his sole All-Star teammate, shattered the ludicrous idea that he can't win without a superteam.
The three years leading up to this victory were challenging for the Warriors, and successes are worth more when they are the result of a sincere struggle. After rupturing his Achilles, Klay Thompson tore his ACL. Stephen Curry's hand was broken.
The Warriors had the lowest victory total in the league during the 2019-20 season. They missed the 2021 playoffs, as per a report from NBC Sports. Steph has entertained trading with the 2017 and 2018 championships before.
Sweet Finals MVP Trophy
Curry was questioned before about whether he would have preferred to win the 2016 NBA Finals, the year the Warriors had the best regular season record in NBA history but lost the championship, when chatting with Green in April before the Warriors won this year's NBA championship. That time, the 34-year-old didn't provide a direct response. Steph Curry finally said that he still finds the events of 2016 funny, per Sports Illustrated.
One of the few remaining gaps on his CV was filled when Curry won the MVP award for the first time in his career during the 2022 NBA Finals. In the final seconds of Game 6, when the Warriors beat the Boston Celtics and were crowned as NBA champions, his reaction says how much that victory means to him.
When the Warriors' training camp opens on September 24, Curry, Green, and Klay Thompson will formally start their quest for championship ring No. 5.
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