NBA: Stephen Curry loose on LeBron James
Published on July 23, 2023 at 10:35 p.m.
Four times in a row, between 2015 and 2018, LeBron James and Stephen Curry met and faced each other in the NBA Finals. Confrontations that have turned three times in favor of the leader of the Warriors. The latter also returned to his relationship with the King, in an interview with Sports Illustrated.
For four consecutive seasons, the Warriors and the Cavaliers gave us one of the biggest rivalries in NBA history. It all started in 2015, when the first title of Stephen Curry and company with Golden Stateagainst a team of Cleveland who had just recorded the return of LeBron James, after four seasons at the Miami Heat. These are then the Cavaliers who won in 2016, making a historic comeback after being down 3-1 in the series, before the Warriors did not win the last two confrontations in the NBA Finals (2017, 2018).
“It will go down in history as four extraordinary years”
“It will be very difficult to find two teams that meet four years in a row in the Finals, given the way the NBA evolves. It will go down in history as four extraordinary years,” said Stephen Curry, in an interview with Sports Illustrated. The star leader of Warriors also returned to his relationship with LeBron James, which he considers “complex”. Before facing each other four times in a row in the NBA Finals, the King had gone to attend a game of Stephen Curry in 2008, who was still at the University of Davidsonduring the Sweet Sixteen, bringing together the 16 best NCAA teams.
“He’s a great guy, a great friend, a great competitor”
“It’s complex, because it goes from me playing in the tournament, to him coming to watch, to me coming in as a young rookie in the league and giving me advice on how to overcome some of the early struggles I was going to encounter as a player, all the way to the four consecutive finals,” continued Stephen Curry. Despite their multiple confrontations and their rivalry, the leader of the Warriors et LeBron James still maintain a very good relationship: “He’s a great guy, a great friend, a great competitor. It’s amazing to go back and see where it all started at Ford Field during a Sweet Sixteen game. »
2023-07-23 20:35:00
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