STEPH CURRY on trade deadline; DURANT on trash-talking Gary Payton, Sr.: “too small”; NICK RICHARDS
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00:00 Do you expect it to be even tenser than normal for a trade deadline week over the next week considering this moment for you guys and where you sit right now in the standing?
00:12 STEPH CURRY: Only real difference is you're another year away from the '22 year. So it's a little less of a — like, every — I think every trade deadline since has been a little uneasy. But the further you get away from winning, it becomes a little bit more of a sense of urgency. So it's the NBA, nothing different than guys have experienced before. You have to be able to play through it, keep confidence, understand there's so many things you can control, so just play basketball.
00:42 Steve made a comment pregame that just considering where you are and so on, like, it's unwise to at least just stay pat. Obviously, Mike (Dunleavy, Jr.)'s gonna make the choices. We've had these conversations, but are you hoping that something happens?
00:55 It's not for me to make those decisions. I mean, I want to win. So whatever it means to do that.
01:03 Your second shot attempt had nothing to do with off-ball. It was kind of just you having the ball at the top of the arc, got to the rim, lay up. With the way that defenses can adjust to off-ball, is there ever a sense of, in that first quarter, more urgency just get you the ball and kind of get away from the off-ball a little bit?
01:18 That's — it should have been that a little earlier, but also, you know that there's gonna be attention on the ball and try to go pick-and-roll, try to create, get in the seams, try to create looks off of that. Obviously, our struggle, that's our, mine included, in the paint when we get an advantage trying to capitalize and make teams have to honor that, that's been a struggle. And then when that's not going, then you can kind of err on being more aggressive to take away clean looks on the perimeter or send more attention my way, so when we have nights like tonight, everything seems to be kind of bogged down, but 48 hours ago, it was kind of opposite. So it's kind of, it's hard to really pinpoint why it happens like that.
02:15 Stars of your stature can apply pressure and ask for specific things. Would you ever consider trying to put more pressure on the front office, influence them more?
02:28 Y'all will never know about that. We have conversations all the time. I want to win. Again, that's not my job. I'm not a coach. I'm not a GM. It's pretty clear where I stand on trying to make whatever necessary adjustments are to win.
02:47 Thank you.
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02:48 KEVIN DURANT: What were the kind of success you guys had tonight?
02:51 Moving the ball. I think we were mucking up the game plan defensively, so I think that got us some easy buckets in transition, too, which led to a lot of assists. So that's fun. We play defense, get rebounds, and get out, really be dangerous in the open court. That was the name of the game for us tonight, but if we play defense, I think we can open up our offense even more. Curious
03:14 when you see Devin going off, like, in that first quarter, I said it looked like, to Coach, looked like he was trying to set the scoring record in the first half, the way he started. Maybe just speak to what you saw with working with him tonight…
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FROM JAN 31, 2025, postgame after Phoenix Suns at Golden State Warriors, held at Chase Center in San Francisco, CA.
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