Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry (2026) Movie Script
(LENS CLICKING)
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
STEPHEN CURRY: I've been around
basketball my whole life.
It's always been part
of who I am.
But the more I played,
the more I started
to see it differently.
There's a freedom to it,
sense that it can become
whatever you make it.
A way to express yourself.
For me, it's never
just been a game.
It's always felt
more like an art.
STEVE KERR: Great artists
make you think differently.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
They take what came before them
and then expand on it.
Whether it's painting, or music,
or architecture.
It's taking what other people
have created
and creating something
of your own.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN:
When you're starting out,
you have to do something
that really excites you.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
And whatever's different
about that,
it's the things that you can
bring to what you're doing
that maybe not everybody else
is doing,
maybe not everybody else can do
or has thought to do.
That's what's gonna distinguish
the thing.
RICK RUBIN: The more yours
is personal,
the more it's not like hers,
or his, or theirs.
It's yours.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG:
Be you. Be unique.
You can follow
everybody else's stuff,
but then you're not you.
KERR: Every great artist has
that something.
The thing that sets them apart.
A signature where the world
kind of stops and says,
"Yeah, that's them."
For Steph,
it's the three-point shot.
("OH MY GOD" BY JAY-Z PLAYS)
JAY-Z: Let's go get 'em again,
Just.
Oh my god
Come on
BOB FITZGERALD: Curry for three.
Yes, sir!
MIKE BREEN: Crossover.
Fires away. Wow!
FITZGERALD: Curry!
BREEN: Curry splits the defense.
Behind the back! Fires a three!
Oh! He puts it in!
KERR: There's such a beauty
to the shot itself.
The way it comes off his hand,
the way it floats
through the air,
the backspin on the ball.
It really does feel like
you're watching a movie.
(CROWD CHEERING)
It's like the ball almost slows
down in midair.
BREEN: Curry sets, fires,
puts it up.
Bang!
KEVIN HARLAN: Got by Rivers.
Good if it goes.
FITZGERALD: Curry flings it
the other way!
And he got it!
JAY-Z: Iron, iron
HARLAN: The igniter
of the three-point revolution
of the NBA.
The man who changed the game.
BREEN: Bang! Oh, what a shot!
REGGIE MILLER: How all 30 teams
approach the game
is because of number 30.
HARLAN: Curry for the lead.
BREEN: Good!
(BUZZER)
ERIC COLLINS: That guy's
incredible!
HARLAN: Here's Curry
for the record!
It's good! There it is!
Stephen Curry!
The all-time three-point king
of the NBA!
(SONG ENDS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Yeah, QP, get them reps in.
Get them reps in.
-There he is.
-Good to see you. You good?
STEPHEN: Yes, sir, Andy.
Good to see you.
Thank you, sir.
Hey! Oh!
Way to look out for me, dawg.
Appreciate that.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Ooh, you.
-STEPHEN: Switch spots.
-TEAMMATE: H--- no.
Ohh!
(TEAMMATES BOOING, LAUGHING)
On two!
(LAUGHS)
(SCATTERED APPLAUSE)
Just us! One, two, three!
ALL: Just us!
STEPHEN: The more I've played,
the more I've learned.
You know, everybody's got
their own path.
Different directions,
different struggles.
The specific details change.
But the journey usually
begins the same.
CHUCK D: The initial thought
of making the art
is not
for somebody else.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
I feel you have to start
from within.
The thing that makes
your heart beat.
It's something
that will make you say,
"Hmm, I gotta go and do
that thing that gives me me."
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
HRISHIKESH HIRWAY: Every single
artistic success story
relies on so much aligning
in someone's life
outside of their life,
being in the right place
at the right time,
and maybe just somebody
putting a guitar in their hands
or a basketball
in their hands or,
you know, sitting them down
in front of the piano
at the exact moment
they need to do that.
WAYNE LARRIVEE:
Dell Curry fakes.
Toni Kuko runs at him.
Dell Curry hits a long two.
STEPHEN: For me,
that spark came early.
You know, with my dad being
in the league,
the game was around me
from day one.
BILL WALKER: Curry,
his wife Sonya,
and nine-month-old son Stephen,
now make their home
in South Charlotte.
Young Stephen
may not know it now,
basketball may be
his future.
DELL CURRY: Come on, make it.
You gotta make your first shot.
STEPHEN: I don't remember
my first basket.
DELL: Yay!
STEPHEN: I just remember
the feeling
of getting the ball
through the hoop.
Whoa! Yeah!
That little rush, you know.
SONYA CURRY: Steph,
shoot three points.
Come on, Steph.
STEPHEN: At first,
you don't even understand it.
(PARENTS CHEERING)
You're like, you know,
what was that?
What's this feeling?
Defense, man. Defense.
STEPHEN: I was just falling
in love with it,
and I wanted
to keep doing it.
And before I knew it...
-SONYA: Shoot it!
-...it was the only thing
I wanted to do.
That was out!
It went from a curiosity
to almost, like,
um, an obsession.
HARLAN: Good evening, everyone,
from San Francisco,
with NBA history
center stage tonight,
as Steph Curry aims for a
never-before-achieved milestone
of 4,000 made three-point shots.
No player has ever knocked down
that many threes
in the history of the NBA.
(CLOCK TICKS)
CJ, what up?
INTERVIEWER: Hey, what are you
chasing tonight, Steph?
Pretty cool milestone,
that clean 4,000 number, so...
Two, two away, hopefully get it,
whenever we get it,
but definitely special.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ALLIE LAFORCE: The breaking
the record was a big deal,
and then a couple weeks later,
you got 3,000,
and for some reason, those even
big numbers sound amazing.
Um, when did you start thinking
that 4,000 was a possibility?
-At 3,500.
-Okay.
STEPHEN: Yeah,
it's like every time you...
You get lost in the flow
of the season just knowing...
I mean, that's not
what I'm gunning for because...
LAFORCE: You're not going home
and playing the shot.
Yeah. Exactly.
Having a running tally.
But there was clean milestones,
'cause everything...
Every shot I make is a first...
-Yeah.
-...which is kind of cool.
STEPHEN: I've been blessed to be
in this game for a long time.
You know, every shot I make,
I still get that same rush I did
as a kid.
Yes!
But milestones like this
don't come around often.
There's something
a little more special about it.
-LAFORCE: Happy birthday, early.
-STEPHEN: Thank you very much.
LAFORCE: What are you turning,
40...? 37?
-Thirty... You say 40?
-37, yeah.
-Yeah, do you feel 37?
Yeah, and no at the same time,
like...
LAFORCE: Once you
get warmed up--
STEPHEN: Young in life,
but old out here in basketball,
it just does take you
a little longer to get...
yeah, loose and warm,
but I can still get there.
The older you get,
the more you realize
the door is not open forever.
And you never really know
when it's gonna be over.
Oh, yeah,
just loosening up a little bit.
-Huh?
-Just loosening up a little bit.
It's like a little nerve that...
It's annoying.
It's not getting worse.
It just woke me up a little bit.
-(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
-Yeah.
So, you know, I just appreciate
every moment out there.
I'm blessed to still be here,
be part of this.
Doing the thing I love.
You know, carrying forward
what my heroes once carried.
STEVEN SPIELBERG: My whole love
for this media...
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
...comes from paying attention
to the past.
All the geniuses
that all of us are learning from
and upon whose shoulders
we stand.
STEPHEN: I was fortunate to,
you know,
witness greatness up close
on a nightly basis.
My dad, his release,
the confidence he played with.
MARTIN: Curry with 27.
STEPHEN: That was the first
picture I had of the game.
Then it was guys like Reggie,
Ray, the shooters I studied
every night.
You know, Reggie,
constant motion,
always finding space.
BREEN: Miller, a three!
Bang!
STEPHEN: Ray, same form,
same stroke, every single time.
MIKE GORMAN: Ray Allen
for the game.
NEWSCASTER: Hey, you might think
this is Reggie Miller's son,
but it isn't.
It's actually Dell Curry's son,
Stephen.
And he looks like a future
point guard for the Hornets.
STEPHEN: Every day
I'd be out there,
you know, launching shots,
trying to emulate my heroes.
Paying attention
to all those little things
that make the difference.
(SCATTERED CHEERS)
RUBIN: It's the obsessive nature
of being really into something
that once you start down
a thread,
you just keep pulling forever.
Many of the artists
that are great at what they do
are great at what they do
for that very reason.
They fall in love
with this thing,
and then they just want
to know everything
they could possibly learn
about it.
STEPHEN: The more I started
to understand,
the more I saw that, you know,
everyone had their own voice.
And as I got older, I started
wondering more and more,
you know, what my version
of the game might sound like.
STEVE SCOTT: Good evening,
everybody,
and welcome to Chase Center!
For tonight's matchup featuring
the visiting Sacramento Kings
versus your
Golden State Warriors!
-STEPHEN: Come on!
-Aah!
Whoo!
Here we go.
Thank you for this day.
Thank you for bringing us here.
We ask you bless
our performance tonight.
Keep us safe,
free from injury.
Play the best to our ability.
Do it together and have fun.
Keep building.
Tonight we pray.
-Amen.
-PLAYERS: Amen.
Come on, fellas, from the jump.
Let's go.
Just us, one, two, three.
PLAYERS: Just us!
STEPHEN: Let's go!
CHILDREN:
O say can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly...
(SINGING FADES OUT)
...of the free
And the home of the brave
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)
SCOTT: Thank you.
STEPHEN: You tell yourself
it's just another game.
But when you're standing
on the edge
of something this big,
you definitely feel
the weight of it.
SCOTT: Playing his first
NBA season
out of Boston College.
Number 21.
Quentin Po-Po-Po-Post!
(PYROTECHNICS BOOMING)
Playing in his 13th year.
From Michigan State.
STEPHEN: Yes, sir!
SCOTT: Number 23.
Draymond Green!
Playing his 14th year.
From Tomball, Texas.
Number 10.
Jimmy But-But-But-Butler III.
And now, in his 16th NBA season,
out of Davidson!
Number 30, Stephen Curry!
(CROWD CHEERS)
STEPHEN: When everything starts
to build, you know,
the noise,
the weight of the moment,
I just try and stay present,
stay grounded,
and, you know, trust the thing
that got me here
in the first place.
ALAN WATTS: We all
admire artists.
(CAMERA SHUTTER
CLICKS)
They seem to dance
or paint
or play the piano
so effortlessly.
Of course a lot of work
has gone into it.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
RUBIN: I think there's
a mythology...
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
...that the people
who make things that we love
are special people.
We think that they're these
magic people on Mount Olympus
who are geniuses,
and then there's the rest of us.
And that's not the case.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
MALCOLM GLADWELL:
There's clearly this thing
called talent.
It's the magic dust.
I think a lot of what
we call talent
is the desire to persist.
It's that you love something
so much
you want to do a lot of it.
WATTS: If you are
a great artist,
your so-called periods
of practice,
when you sit for hours
and study your technique,
you will not do that effectively
unless it is a pleasure for you.
You have to come to the point
where going over it
again and again...
...is a dance.
(CROWD CHEERS)
Straight out the game, boy!
Let's get another win up!
HARLAN: 17 games to go
after tonight
and everything is
tightly packed in there.
STAN VAN GUNDY: Absolutely.
You're fighting for every spot
because Sacramento
more than likely
is gonna end up in the play-in.
But every spot you move up there
gives you a better chance
-to advance.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
And Golden State fighting
like heck
to get into those top six.
(CLOCK TICKING)
TIM ROYE: Opening tip
controlled by Golden State.
Draymond Green
with a pass over to Steph Curry.
Curry minus-two threes
from 4,000.
Here's Draymond Green.
Takes Valanciunas down low.
Throws it back up to Butler.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER, SHOUTS)
Butler off of Curry's screen...
TERRY STOTTS: Three, two, boom!
Boom!
STEPHEN: Square! Square!
JONAS Valanciunas: Shot!
(PLAYERS SPEAKING INDISTINCLTY)
DRAYMOND GREEN:
Yeah, go, get QP.
KERR: All right, Steph!
Go back. Go back. That's it.
That's it.
HARLAN: Butler fakes a three.
Draymond from the corner.
STOTTS: Boom!
HARLAN: That's a pretty good way
to start the game.
STEPHEN: Every game you play is
a chance to make something new.
But each one has
its own challenges.
Go, go, go.
VAN GUNDY: Do you see how
they're playing Curry?
HARLAN: Yeah.
VAN GUNDY: Keegan Murray is just
staying glued to Steph Curry.
HARLAN: Are there Curry rules?
VAN GUNDY: Well, there are
for some teams for sure.
And there certainly is tonight.
STEPHEN: Some days
it comes easy.
Most days it doesn't.
-(SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)
-Come on!
STEPHEN: And you can figure out
pretty quickly
what kind of night
it's gonna be.
ROYE: Curry being
top-blocked by Murray.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
-And Draymond drives
and draws a foul.
TOM TOLBERT: Top-blocking,
in essence,
is just kind of taking
a defender
and putting him
on top of the guy
instead of your
natural position.
So it's harder for him
to get those threes off.
STEPHEN: You got to fight
for every inch out there.
And that fight always starts
with yourself.
(LIGHTS CLUNKING)
Most days it's not exciting.
(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
You know, it's quiet,
repetitive.
Sometimes boring.
Frustrating.
(EXHALES, GRUNTS)
You know, it's hours, days,
years in the gym.
Running the same read.
Constantly drilling movement.
That's kind of like a dance,
you know.
There's a rhythm to it.
You drill the timing.
You feel out the space.
You tweak one step
just to maybe get a clean look.
Hey!
SCOTT: Stephen Curry!
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
-(BUZZER)
See what I'm saying?
I'm gonna tell you
to just move up the floor
'cause they're crazy
top-blocked.
I ain't ever seen it.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
KERR: Great job, Dray.
Way to go, Jimmy.
Good stuff, Mo.
Every time they score,
Murray is all over Steph.
So one of you guys, give Steph
a screen without the ball.
Be ready for this,
all this junk they're throwing.
They're just top-blocking
Steph everywhere.
Wouldn't surprise me
if they play zone.
STEPHEN: Nothing's ever
come easy.
People see the shots fall.
But they don't see the work
it took to get there.
(CROWD SHOUTING)
DELL: Come on, Steph.
STEPHEN: I've been blessed
to have my dad
kind of lead the way.
And I felt I had this
God-given opportunity.
But that only takes you so far.
You know, nobody's born
with great technique.
My so-called natural shot
was trash.
Had to rebuild the whole thing
from scratch.
Quicker, higher release.
But the whole process
was brutal.
Three months
of missing everything.
It kind of felt like
a punishment.
And one, two, go.
STEPHEN: It was so bad
that I almost quit the game
altogether.
Uh, but my mom kept me
steady through that.
SONYA: That's it! That's it!
Unh!
Defense! Hustle!
STEPHEN: She had been there
before as an athlete.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
She knew what it took
and she made sure
I found that in myself.
(BUZZER BLARING)
SPORTSCASTER: Stephen Curry
this year has put a stamp
on this team.
This is his team.
Over the summer, he's worked
on his game tremendously.
STEPHEN: When it finally clicked
and I saw all that work
paying off...
that's when I began
to understand
what the process is.
(CLOCK TICKING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
FAN: Come on, defense!
Let's go, baby!
STEPHEN: You're good!
You're good! Flip it!
(BOOM ECHOES)
But you have to be patient.
Come up for it!
(PLAYERS CHATTER INDISTINCTLY)
-(CROWD CHEERING)
-(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT)
ROYE: 17-6.
Valanciunas handoff DeRozan.
DeRozan rotates up top.
Keon Ellis on the floor.
-ROYE: Bad pass Ellis.
-TOLBERT: Yikes.
ROYE: It goes
out of bounds.
And turnover on Sacramento.
STEPHEN: At some point
you realize the real growth
isn't just putting in the time.
It's how that work starts
forming who you are out there.
ROYE: Curry handling.
Flipped it to Draymond.
Back cut Kuminga.
Down the lane over Valanciunas.
No good, as Valanciunas
defended it well.
Outlet to the frontcourt
to Ellis.
Throws it back to LaVine.
Stepback off the dribble.
Jumper good...
STEPHEN: Shoot that.
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
(CROWD GROANS)
KERR: Let's go. Hey!
ROYE: DeRozan at midcourt.
Driving on Moody.
Pass blocked by Moody.
Taken by Kuminga.
STEPHEN: And when you're trying
to find your identity
out there...
there's always people trying
to tell you what you're not.
ANNOUNCER: Stephen Curry!
STEPHEN: When it was time
to make that jump,
you know, the bigger schools
already had their minds made up.
"He's too small."
"Can't defend."
"You know, won't hold up
against bigger guys."
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
But then, one school saw
something in me.
Davidson gave me a shot.
Told me they'd take me
just as I am.
And I decided right then I was
gonna double down on the work.
You know, trust the process.
And become the best version
of myself possible.
SPORTSCASTER:
Looks like a young pup.
Looks just like he could be
still playing in high school.
SPORTSCASTER 2:
And as we said,
he played
his high school ball nearby.
Curry!
STEPHEN: I was in the gym
every day
just putting the work in.
Lifting, shooting, studying,
getting stronger, sharper,
more locked in.
Really starting
to hone my craft.
SPORTSCASTER 3: He's only
a freshman, so you know
he's gonna be in the weight room
in the offseason.
A couple years down the road,
he's gonna be something.
STEPHEN: I started to experiment
with the game.
Test the limits
of what I could do.
I wanted to know every angle,
every cut,
every inch of space
that mattered.
No stone left unturned.
Just really starting
to hone my craft and, you know,
fall in love with the grind.
VIRGIL ABLOH: The idea is
to work hard.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
Do the 10,000 hours.
I mean like actually
working hard.
You have to love the pain of not
having everything so easy.
Anyone's name
that you can reference--
Warhol, Lagerfeld, Jobs--
the reason why
those one-word names
reference a whole body
of work
is that they
tirelessly dedicated their life
to that work.
GUS JOHNSON: Ohh!
SPORTSCASTER 5: Everybody
might think this is Dell Curry,
great NBA star,
and his lovely wife Sonya.
This isn't.
Tonight, this is Stephen's dad
and Stephen's mom.
JIM NANTZ: America had heard
about him,
and now we know about him.
Stephen Curry leads Davidson
into the second round.
(GRUNTS)
STEPHEN: It's really the
obsession with the small stuff.
You know, where your hand is
when you come off the catch.
Finding your defender
to create separation.
Keep your balance
as you shift your weight.
Square up your shoulders
to the basket.
Roll the ball off your fingers
for that perfect release
and that perfect arc.
(NET SWISHES)
You do it every day.
Hundreds of thousands of reps.
Over and over and over.
Until it's automatic.
(HEARTBEAT THUMPS)
I stopped looking for a lane...
...and started building my own.
HARLAN: 3,999 threes!
(CROWD CHEERING, WHISTLING)
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
One more to 4,000.
(CLOCK TICKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Dribble.
HARLAN: Down low, Steph.
A lot of traffic.
Payton aims, fires. Got it.
(CROWD CHEERS)
ROYE: 23-9.
Warriors in control here early.
Handoff to Murray.
Murray Euro-steps in.
Ball stripped. Gets it back.
Over to DeRozan. Baseline drive.
Pass inside Valanciunas.
Layup good.
Curry takes the pass.
Spins away from Murray.
Sees Ellis...
STEPHEN: I earned my spot.
You know, put in the work
and proved
I could hold my own
against anybody.
But when the stage
gets bigger...
you know, those lights
definitely get hotter.
DAVID STERN: The Golden State
Warriors select...
Stephen Curry
from Davidson College.
STEPHEN: Being drafted is
the dream, man.
But you realize real quick
how big this thing is.
STEVE LAVIN: Is he gonna be
strong enough
against NBA defenders
over the course
of an 82-game schedule
to get the ball
in the operational area?
Is he gonna understand time,
score, and situations?
STEPHEN: In college, you know,
it's family in the stands.
In the league,
it's millions of eyes.
And every move you make gets put
under a microscope.
Hit me hard
DOUG GOTTLIEB:
You had Steph,
who's a spectacular shooter,
but not a true point.
SPORTSCASTER:
He didn't play point guard
until he was a junior.
As a sophomore,
he was the off guard.
SPORTSCASTER 2: And he's trying
to find his way in the NBA.
STEPHEN: Everything's on tape.
Everything gets analyzed.
And everyone's got an opinion.
PATTI SMITH: Any artist
can't expect to be embraced.
You just keep doing your work
because you have to.
Because it's your calling.
ROYE: ...jumper. Good!
Kick out Curry.
Another three... good!
STEPHEN: It's easy to get
distracted by everything
that comes
with the spotlight.
ROYE: And throw the lob!
STEPHEN: You know, you just have
to continue to trust the process
and stick to the vision.
ROYE: Curry.
A teardrop!
What a shot!
PATTI: Be concerned
with doing good work
and make the right choices.
And if you build a good name,
that name will be
its own currency.
-HARLAN: Curry with a three.
-SPORTSCASTER 3: Stephen Curry.
ROYE: Curry!
A career high!
Curry takes the pass.
Spins away from Murray.
Sees Ellis.
Right up on him
on the left wing.
STEPHEN: I've learned
to appreciate the stage.
The tension, the noise,
it all means
you've done something right.
But this journey always finds
new ways to test you.
(CROWD GROANS)
ROYE: The crowd was
starting to rise to their feet.
They want to be part
of a celebration.
(CLOCK TICKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
LaRavia now is the one
top-blocking Curry,
not even looking
for any sort of help.
Up top, Hield,
dribbles down with three,
with two, takes a contested two.
It's a back rim miss
and Looney, the rebound.
Time-out to be charged
to Golden State.
2:40 to go in the first quarter.
25-13, Warriors on top.
QUINTEN POST: Need to get
to that counter.
STEPHEN: No, no, no. It's...
FAN: Steph, Steph, Steph!
STEPHEN: No, we're good.
It's not gonna be
with this group
'cause they're gonna switch
their whole defense.
But if we get stalled,
it's always gonna be me
over here.
A top-block.
This whole space
-is gonna be open.
-Backdoor.
As long as we can get the ball
right here,
we're proper spacing.
That's only if we get stuck.
That's a get-out-of-jail card.
We gotta just play basketball
though.
But just know,
I'm always trying to set him up
'cause he's all the way
on the top side.
This whole space is wide open.
Drop down. No.
That's a--
We got to run though...
We're good.
ARI WALLER: Whoever gets it
is gonna be our winner
for two tickets...
KERR: Welcome back, JK.
ARI: I know I'm ready.
Fans, let's cheer 'em on.
STEPHEN: That's not even a play.
It's not even a play.
It's just hittin' the ball
on one side.
I'm in the other corner
and as long as we have
somebody on that wing,
-I got the whole...
-STOTTS: Yeah.
They're not even considering
the basketball.
Hey, we're trying to run
that little flip...
we're trying to run
the flip play
to get Monk and LaVine back
to their right hands. Right?
So, we're shading them this way.
They kick it.
They're walking down.
They're coming and setting it.
Now they get back
to their right hand, right?
We can switch it. All right?
You guys feel that?
STEPHEN: You got some heat?
STEPHEN:
This game is gonna test you.
Physically and mentally,
your body starts feeling things
it used to shake off.
(PAINED EXHALE)
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
Little stuff that lingers.
Things that used to take a day,
now it's a week.
Ankle, knees, back, shoulders.
You know, it all adds up.
You start kind of questioning
the tools that got you here.
You know, can I still
move the same?
React the same?
How much more time
is my body gonna give me?
HARLAN: Steph Curry
is still out of the game.
We saw him holding his back
moments ago.
STEPHEN: It messes
with your mind.
BRANDIN PODZIEMSKI:
You want a pad?
STEPHEN: Yeah.
VIOLA DAVIS: I know the language
of the artist.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
And the language
of the artist is,
someone's gonna find me out.
I may not be as great
as people think I am.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
KRIS BOWERS: The craft part
is actually the easy part.
The thing that can be
challenging
is navigating
that internal critic,
not being good enough,
being on the brink of failure,
dissatisfaction and frustration
and doubt.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
MICHAEL:
It's the imposter syndrome.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
It's the blessings that you
can't really accept fully.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
And the worst part is the--
the loneliness
that comes with that.
You know, the responsibility
that you have...
is isolating.
-(CROWD GROANS)
-FITZGERALD: Steph is hurt.
Steph Curry is hurt.
He went straight down
and never moved.
AZUBUIKE: Oh, man.
STEPHEN: At first it just feels
like bad luck.
A slip here, a mistake there.
You try and pull yourself
together, fight through.
But it keeps happening.
SPORTSCASTER 8: Spraining
and re-spraining
that right ankle again.
FITZGERALD: Curry
behind his back
and he's pulled to the ground.
-Oh, no.
-Holy...
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
(CHEERING)
STEPHEN: Just kind of getting
fed up with having to deal with
the same thing
over and over again.
My main goal right now
is just try to get healthy,
and what that means,
I'm not sure yet.
I'm sure we'll have
a better idea
of what we're gonna do
going forward.
And then one day, it's not just
a setback, it's a full stop.
-...off his leg and...
-Oh, my goodness.
-Steph Curry hurt himself again.
-Steph Curry turned his ankle.
HARLAN: Steph Curry
sprained his ankle
five different times this year.
Should Golden State
be worried about
what Curry's going through?
GREG ANTHONY: Yes.
STEPHEN: You're stuck
watching from the outside,
trying to figure out
where you fit in the picture.
Then out of nowhere,
the whole picture shifts.
DENNIS O'DONNELL:
Well, the Monta Ellis era
in Oakland is over.
BROADCASTER: A lot of
Warrior fans walking around
with a bewildered look
on their face after that one.
O'DONNELL:
Moving Ellis means
this is Stephen Curry's
team to run.
STEPHEN: You want to rise
to the moment,
and you want
to prove people right.
But inside, that doubt
is louder than ever.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
Your mind starts going
to some dark places, man.
What if I'm not strong enough,
big enough, good enough?
You know, what if this
isn't what I was meant to be?
You know, that's when you lean
on the people closest to you.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
The ones who have been there
since the start.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
The ones in your corner
every day.
Remember why you're here,
why you started
in the first place.
And have faith that you're
only given the setbacks
you were built to handle.
BROADCASTER: Steph Curry,
who missed extensive time,
40 games last year,
finalized that extension
with the team.
BROADCASTER 2:
The deal is for four years
and $44 million.
STEPHEN: Dub Nation,
let 'em hear you.
Warriors!
Even with all the doubts
around my health,
that contract showed
the team believed in me.
And I wanted to show
that I believed in them, too.
-GREEN: Boom!
-STEPHEN: Boom!
And not just with the rehab,
but how I carried myself.
You know, how I showed up
for the team.
(CROWD CHEERS)
Yeah, Mo!
I was gonna prove to the owners,
the fans, my teammates.
-STOTTS: Hey, get in there.
-Go, Steph.
STEPHEN: And most importantly,
myself,
that this is what
I was meant to do.
HARLAN: When Curry began
his career,
there were a lot of questions
about his health.
He was having,
and he eventually had,
four surgeries on each ankle.
VAN GUNDY: Yeah, no question.
His health. His size.
He was not
a "can't miss" prospect.
So, give the Warriors credit.
BREEN: Jarrett Jack,
what a pass!
Putting it up and in!
STEPHEN: You know, you go
to those dark places, but...
those are the moments
that build you.
And when you push through
the doubt,
stay true to your vision,
you come out
the other side stronger.
KERR: Behind you.
Get there.
STEPHEN: Pieces start
falling into place.
(NET SWISHES)
And, you know,
people you weren't expecting
show up right when
they're supposed to.
KERR: So they're top-blocking
everything.
GREEN: I can go rifle.
I think we go angle small
next time.
Rifle.
Let's have you handle,
-and then we'll put...
-QP?
You want to put QP or Jimmy
in that strong side corner?
Jimmy's gotta handle.
Draymond on the weak side.
GREEN: I'll go corner
and Jimmy handle.
I know, but if Valanciunas is
on you, I'd like you to handle.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW:
Find your community.
Find the people to work with
that are gonna let you thrive.
That are gonna allow you
to express yourself creatively.
That trust you,
and trust that you're doing
the right thing for them.
STEPHEN: When Coach Kerr
came in,
there was a trust from day one.
You know, we were aligned
in how we saw the game.
FITZGERALD: I want to thank
all of you for coming.
It's a special day
for the Warriors,
the day we announce Steve Kerr
as the head coach.
STEPHEN: He had forged
his own path,
established his own style,
and came in
with nothing but support.
KERR: There's some
wonderful players on this roster
who are committed to each other
and committed
to the organization,
and I'm excited to become
a part of that.
Right next to Gui,
go back to Gui.
Gui, Gui, Gui! Gui!
Sub, sub, sub!
STEPHEN: You know,
we share the same vision,
and he helped bring
the best out of me.
BREEN: Curry splits the defense.
Behind the back!
Fires a three! He puts it in!
STEPHEN: There's nothing
more valuable than, you know,
having someone encourage you
to be yourself...
and has your back
when things get tough.
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
JOSH TIVEN: No, no. Offensive.
KERR: No! Are you kidding me?
He's not allowed
to hold him, Josh.
TIVEN: No. Dray ran
right up his back.
KERR: He's standing right there.
TIVEN: I didn't call it on--
I couldn't call it on Steph.
Dray runs right up his back.
I know, but he's holding Steph
the whole time.
-Let's go. Okay, all right.
-All right.
STEPHEN: When everybody starts
seeing it the same way,
that's when it becomes
more like a collaboration.
VAN GUNDY: Steph Curry's
actually at his most dangerous
when he gives the ball up.
You see it here.
Steph Curry's screen.
The threes show up
on the stats sheet,
but he does a lot of things
that will never show up
on the stats.
STEPHEN: You're bouncing ideas
off each other in real time.
You know, reads, rhythm, tempo.
KERR: You know, if basketball
were music, it would be jazz.
There's a five-person beat
and harmony,
but there's individual
brilliance that emerges
that's often not choreographed.
-(NET SWISHES)
-(CROWD CHEERS)
BUDDY RICH: Unless there's
a complete understanding
between trumpets, trombones,
and saxophones
and the rhythm section,
you just have 15 guys
playing music.
Everyone must have
the same emotional feeling
about what they're playing.
KERR: The best teams
are the ones
that really recognize
who they are,
find their style,
their identity,
and then they have
their own kind of lead artist,
pushing the boundaries
of what your team can be
and how it sort of evolves
from that lead guy.
BREEN: At five,
Curry for the lead.
Good!
ADAM SILVER: First player
in 55 years
as a Warrior to win the MVP.
STEPHEN: When you trust
the people around you
and you have faith in yourself,
all that doubt starts to fade,
and you just...
play.
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT ECHOES)
WATTS: There is a principle
called Wu Wei.
Wu Wei is the principle
of not forcing
in anything that you do.
When we watch any performance
of an artist,
be it a dancer or a musician,
we know immediately
when the performance is forced.
And we say it doesn't ring true,
it's too artificial,
it doesn't seem to be natural.
Shakespeare knew perfectly well,
"there is a tide
in the affairs of men which,
taken at its flood,
leads on to fortune."
And so Wu Wei is based
on knowledge of the tide,
the drift of things,
get with it.
Wu Wei is the art of sailing
rather than the art of rowing.
MIKE SUGERMAN: 28 years old,
and he is well on his way
to becoming the Bay Area's
most popular athlete ever.
BLOOM DE WILDE: You know,
when you are playing music,
and it just...
there's no thoughts.
You are just being,
and everything is right.
You know that feeling.
I think all musicians
know that feeling.
That's why we want
to make music,
because that's the best feeling
in the world.
STEPHEN: It feels like
you're floating.
Everything kind of disappears.
Noise gets muffled.
Your vision gets narrow.
But the thing is,
you can't force it.
You can't chase it.
Hey! (GRUNTS)
The harder you try to grab
ahold of it,
the more it kind of slips away.
HARLAN: And here's Curry.
He's hit one three
and he's one away from 4,000.
Here it is. Curry! No.
Rebound. Fought for. Deflected.
Monk. Downcourt.
-Ellis is there.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
And he slams it in.
Time-out Golden State.
ROYE: 59-39.
20-point lead for the Dubs.
They're just playing
a nasty game.
So, we like,
don't worry about me
'cause it's gonna open up
in transition or something.
You're gonna make
your f------ three.
No, no, no.
I'm not worried about--
I'm talking about--
just the idea that...
I'm going to dribble this b----
at you every play...
(BOTH LAUGH)
until you move and get the ball.
(STEPHEN LAUGHING)
STEPHEN: All right, bet.
All right, bet it.
I got 2:40 to get one in.
(CLOCK TICKING)
Square! Square! Square! Square!
ROYE: DeMar DeRozan
dribbles right side.
Rotates over to Monk.
Run off the line by Curry.
Up top to Ellis.
He'll take a three and nailed it
above the break left side.
And the Warriors
had better be careful.
20-point leads aren't
what they used to be.
TOLBERT: No,
not with the threes.
ROYE: Curry doubled.
To Post.
Out to Draymond.
Bounce pass through traffic.
And it hit Ellis in the leg.
He picks it up.
GREEN: Take him! Take him!
ROYE: The play had
zero chance of getting through.
Square! Square! Square! Go!
ROYE: And the Warriors
have their lead down to 12.
It was 23 at one point.
And they were rolling.
They kind of lost
some momentum here.
15-4 Sacramento run.
Final 48 seconds in the half.
Butler to Curry.
Throws a bad pass in traffic.
Off his hand, Monk the steal...
(CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)
Two seconds. One second.
Post fires it from backcourt.
On the way!
-It's off the glass.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
The 23-point lead
is down to 10.
61-51.
A 17-4 Kings push
to end the half right here.
Waiting for Curry to see if he
can get to 4,000 threes tonight.
YOUNG FAN: Curry, Curry, Curry!
STEPHEN: When you're standing
at the edge of something
that could stand
the test of time,
you know, everyone's here
hoping to see it happen.
Sometimes barriers come up.
Obstacles that you might not
be able to overcome
in that particular moment.
And you have to sit
with the reality
that you might not
be able to do it.
KERR: Here we go, fellas.
Lock back in.
We're gonna go angle small.
All right?
I want Jimmy to handle.
Swing to Dray
and then you guys exchange.
So, Moses will be here.
Jimmy, you'll be
on the baseline.
And we're setting
the angle small for Dray.
You got rifle action
if you want it, Dray.
-STEPHEN: Come on, just us.
-KERR: Here we go, fellas.
-KERR: Come on.
-STEPHEN: Get a stop.
GREEN: Here we go, here we go.
ROYE: Game on
here in San Francisco.
TOLBERT: The Warriors kind of
let their foot off the gas,
and Kings are right back
in this thing.
ROYE: Murray continues
to top-block Curry.
Pass in traffic.
Moody somehow gets it.
-Knocked away.
-(BUZZER)
It'll be a shot clock
violation...
KERR: Swing! Swing!
ROYE: Posting up LaVine.
Draws a crowd. Finds Curry.
Over to Moody.
He's wide open above the break
right side swing.
SCOTT: Moses Moody!
-STEPHEN: Hey, man!
-ROYE: 74-67.
Warriors up seven.
Here goes Moody.
Dribble drive.
On the way.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
-Got pushed by Monk.
STEPHEN: Hey.
Square, square, square!
ROYE: DeRozan spinning
on Curry at the foul line.
Turns and shoots.
The shot's up. It's good.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
-And a foul on Steph Curry.
TIVEN: Landing on the foot,
Steph.
(CROWD BOOING)
Thirty. Thirty.
ROYE: That shouldn't be
a foul on Steph at all.
TOLBERT: Really shouldn't. No.
He jumped forward.
I didn't even come
into his landing.
I'm going this way.
KERR: What did he do, Josh?
He kicked his foot out.
The only reason
he stepped on him
is 'cause he kicked
his foot out.
-Help him.
-KERR: Nothing there.
Steph's getting held every play,
and there's not a single call,
and you're gonna call that?
I agree on a physical game,
but he kicks his foot out.
There's nothing.
(INAUDIBLE)
-HARLAN: LaVine knocks it in.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
And it's a six-point game
in San Francisco.
That's not open deny.
Open deny is here,
and we dribble at,
and we go there, right?
We can't execute open deny
on the fly.
STEPHEN: When you're wrapped up
in outcomes,
you start overthinking.
(CLOCK TICKING)
Worrying about the makes,
the misses, how it all adds up.
That's when the game starts
to feel heavy.
You second guess, hesitate.
Lose the rhythm that got you
here in the first place.
(MUFFLED CHATTER)
Sometimes you just need
to make a conscious decision.
KERR: You gotta lock back in.
All right? Here we go.
STEPHEN: Stop forcing it,
stop chasing it,
stop trying to control it.
Here we go!
Square! Square! Square!
You know, trust yourself.
Trust the hours.
And, you know,
just get out there
and do what you love doing.
Hey, come on.
Gotta give me the ball.
JON BATISTE: If you
don't live it,
and it's not a part of you,
it's not gonna come out
of the instrument.
What we play is life.
What we create is life.
It's channeled to you
for everyone in that moment
never to happen again.
BREEN: The Golden State Warriors
are the 2015 NBA Champions,
their first title in 40 years.
STEPHEN: When you finally start
to slip into that flow state,
it's just movement,
instinct, creativity.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
DAVID BOWIE: Always go
a little further into the water
than you feel you're capable
of being in.
Go a little bit out
of your depth,
and when you don't feel
that your feet
are quite touching
the bottom...
you're just about
in the right place
to do something exciting.
VERN GLENN: 402 three-pointers,
record.
BROADCASTER 2: ...by becoming
the first unanimous winner
of the Kia NBA MVP Award.
STEPHEN: When the whole group
is moving as one,
it becomes bigger than yourself.
CIARA: No matter
what adversity,
no matter what
you've gone through,
when you're in your element,
fully in that moment,
dance and just vibe to
the record like you feel free.
ROYE: The Warriors are
NBA Champions again.
HARLAN: Got by Rivers.
Good if it goes.
BREEN: The Golden State Warriors
champions once again.
Back-to-back titles,
three in four years.
And the latest with a sweep.
STEPHEN: Your body just
kind of takes over,
moving quicker than your mind.
(YELLS)
You stop thinking and the game
starts to just fall into place.
NINA SIMONE: I'll tell you
what freedom is to me.
No fear.
I've had a couple of times on
stage when I really felt free.
And that's something else.
That's really something else!
(INDISTINCT COMMENTARY)
FITZGERALD: For the win!
Yes, sir!
BREEN: Their fourth title
in eight years.
The Dubs dynasty is still
very much alive.
STEPHEN: You stop trying
to force things.
And, you know,
just surrender to the moment.
You know, trust everything
that got you here.
DELL: Come on, make it--
you gotta make your first shot.
ANNOUNCER: Stephen Curry!
STEPHEN: You just let
the craft take over.
The instincts,
the rhythm, the feel.
STERN: The Golden State Warriors
select...
Stephen Curry
from Davidson College.
STEPHEN: All those years
shaping the thing you love...
shows up in that one shot.
-(CROWD ERUPTS)
-HARLAN: There it is!
Number 4,000!
A shot for the ages
from a player for the ages.
Truly the portrait of an artist.
Unbelievable.
And on an night where
he's not a hundred percent,
the standing ovation here.
They are not gonna stop
the game,
but 4,000 threes by Curry.
Unimaginable not too long ago,
but here he's achieved it.
One day shy
of his 37th birthday.
Put in Kuminga...
SCOTT: Dub Nation!
With the last three-pointer
by Stephen Curry,
he becomes the only player
in NBA history
to have reached
4,000 career three-pointers!
(CROWD CHEERING)
By reaching this milestone,
Curry increases his margin
on the all-time three-pointers
main leaderboard
by nearly 900 three-pointers!
-Way to go, Steph.
-SCOTT: Chase Center,
make some noise
and congratulate number 30,
Stephen Curry!
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)
Hey, Steph, what's going on?
It's Andris.
Just wanted to say
congratulations
on reaching
4,000 career threes.
Just in case you forgot,
I assisted you
on your first career three
in 2009 in Phoenix.
STEPHEN: I don't think anyone
really starts out,
you know,
thinking about legacy.
On the verge of crossing
4,000 three-pointers.
It's just a testament
to who he is, his hard work,
the type of person he is.
STEPHEN: Milestones are
reminders of the blessings,
but, you know,
they're not the whole story.
GUI SANTOS: ...already saw
in my life.
KERR: One of the great artists
ever
in the history of mankind,
and we're blessed to be able
to watch you.
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)
Let's blitz!
They set the screen with you.
STEPHEN: Each one is just
kind of like a snapshot.
And as you get closer to the end
than the beginning,
you start to wonder
what they all add up to mean.
BRIAN ENO:
It's an interesting question
for any artist
to ask themselves.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
I've been asking this question
pretty much continuously
since I was 17 years old...
"Why am I doing this?
And what difference
does it make to the world?"
KERR: So you're gonna be
on either LaVine or Monk,
whoever's out there.
They'll probably set it
with him.
So let's blitz.
Everybody be ready to rotate.
You got it, Loon?
We're blitzing with Steph
and that's one with, uh...
-Congratulations, my brother.
-Appreciate you, brother.
-Yes, sir.
-KERR: ...DeMar when they try
to bring him in to him.
-Yes, sir. Let's get it.
-Just us. One, two, three!
Yes, sir.
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
No, I'm Ellis.
-DEMAR DEROZAN: Good job.
-Appreciate you, dawg. Yes, sir.
ROYE: And I know what
Steph's thinking right now.
"Hey, let's get this win,
then we can celebrate."
Nothing worse than getting
a milestone in a loss.
STEPHEN: At first,
it's just a thing you do.
You know, something you love,
trying to get better at it.
(YELLS INDISTINCTLY)
But after a while,
you start to see how...
doing what you do
has an effect on people.
HARLAN: Oh, Kuminga!
Muscling in
and throwing it down.
STEPHEN: You start to realize
it's more than just
the scoreboard,
the records.
You know,
there's something deeper to it.
HARLAN: He does have
pedestrian numbers tonight,
on this historic night,
where he goes by 4,000 threes.
Kuminga got it!
And it is turning into...
STEPHEN: It becomes something
that you all get
to share together.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
VIOLA: Artists,
you see life different, right?
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
That's why you came
into this profession.
The gift.
To be healers.
To be alchemists.
To buck the system.
Because your purpose
is not what you do.
It's what happens to people
when you do what you do.
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)
STEPHEN: Square! Square! Square!
-Oh, yeah!
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
Oh! Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
You know,
it's like a deep connection
between you and the fans,
you and the city.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
They give you everything
they've got,
and all you can do is
try to give something back.
HARLAN: Taps it out
to Kuminga.
Curry, the other way.
Curry tonight, 11 points,
2 of 5 from three.
Another one right here.
Rebound Moody, pushed, shot.
Rebound Monk.
Three and a half to go.
LaVine-- Stolen by Curry!
And he'll take it.
A lot of white jerseys
around him.
DeRozan deflects it
out of bounds.
VAN GUNDY: I think
we've probably gonna--
seen the last
of Steph Curry here.
As you said,
his back's been bothering him.
ROYE: And now,
walking slowly over
to the bench...
(CROWD CHEERS)
Mr. 4,000, Stephen Curry.
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)
-Congratulations, Steph.
-Appreciate it, Coach.
KERR: Way to go, Moses.
Great night again.
I thought you'd
have six steals today.
STEPHEN: All right, d---.
You gotta let me play defense.
I'm trying to be like you.
Welcome back.
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE CONTINUES)
AYESHA CURRY: Yeah!
STEPHEN: Thank you.
Thank you.
Appreciate you, man.
It's frickin' crazy.
-Frickin' crazy.
-Show me something too!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
KRIS WEEMS: 4,000 blicks.
4,000 blickies, Steve.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
KERR: Curl pin.
Four thousand blickies, Steve.
-Speaking of a blicky!
-WEEMS: Bow, bow, bow!
-There's a blicky!
-Bow, bow, bow!
(CLOCK TICKING)
ROYE: And McDermott
will throw it in.
Fultz doesn't even attempt
the shot.
-(BUZZER)
-And that's it. Buzzer sounds.
Final score, 130-104.
The Warriors get the win
over Sacramento.
Stephen Curry gets to
the 4,000 three-point plateau
on the same night where
Steve Kerr gets win number 557.
-Congrats again, brother.
-Thank you, brother.
S---, every day is congrats.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
It's a special milestone.
Appreciate you, dawg.
LAFORCE: Well, Steph, I know
there was a lot of anticipation
the last couple days
leading up to this moment.
But what was it like when you
finally saw it go through?
It was a special moment,
obviously, to do it at home.
Uh, the--
The 2974 record in New York
was great,
because it was an unbelievable
environment at Madison Square,
but to do it in front
of my home fans,
and, uh, you know...
It was a weird game because
I didn't get many attempts up,
but to finally get it
in the third.
I felt the energy,
it was special.
Have you thought
about 5,000 yet?
-I'm in the moment.
-(LAUGHS)
I'm blessed to keep doing
this thing.
2974 felt like an eternity ago.
So to be now here with this
fresh milestone is pretty cool.
Who knows? I never limit God
or never limit the blessings
of my life, that--
I'm gonna stay in the present
right now.
Thanks for your time
and happy early birthday.
Thank you very much.
HARLAN: Big night
for Steph Curry.
History and the ball
in his grasp.
4,000 made threes.
VAN GUNDY: This guy's career
has been-- He changed the NBA.
He's really changed the NBA
and led to this
three-point revolution.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
MILLER: Stephen Curry
has taken shooting
and the art form of it
to a different level.
I have a nine-year-old
and I go to all these games.
The first thing they do
is start hoisting up threes
to try and be like their hero,
Stephen Curry.
KERR: You got teams shooting
50, 60, 70 threes.
Multiple players shooting
from five feet beyond the arc.
Whole generation of players,
young people,
are watching Steph
and emulating his every move.
But it's not just that he is
making these incredible shots.
It's the way he moves people.
He has an incredible ability
to connect with people...
because they see
his humanity, his kindness,
and his compassion
in this package
that happens to include
the greatest skill in basketball
that anyone has ever known.
That's pretty special,
and people recognize that
all the time about him.
STEPHEN: It's never just been
about numbers for me.
It's always just been
the thing I love to do.
You know, you hope to be able
to push the game forward,
leave something behind
that makes an impression.
So, to see I've had
a small hand in that,
it's a huge honor, and it's not
something I take lightly.
(FANS SHOUTING)
-Hold that for me.
-AYESHA: I will.
Hold that for me.
AYESHA: I will.
STEPHEN: I'm coming back
to take a shot in a minute.
AYESHA: Okay, Boo.
Hi!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
That's beautiful,
congratulations.
Hit it on the number, man.
It was a really cool milestone.
See how far we can push
this thing,
but it definitely is special.
REPORTER: Was there
a little anxiety
to try to get him that 4,000th,
and what was it like
when it happened?
You see that last turnover I had
in the second quarter?
A lot of anxiety.
Yeah!
GREEN: But it couldn't have
happened to a better person.
Just what he's done for the NBA
and the league as a whole.
Happy to be here to see it,
be a small part of it,
uh, but more importantly
just witness greatness
on a nightly basis.
TEAMMATE: Yes, sir.
(ALL SHOUTING)
(CHEERING, INDISTINCT SHOUTS)
TEAMMATE: Happy birthday!
Bow!
Bow-bow-bow-bow-bow!
(LAUGHTER, CHEERING)
That's cold as h---.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Whoo!
I don't need a cold tub now.
-Congrats, Steph.
-GREEN: Yes, sir.
STEPHEN: Appreciate y'all, man.
-Just us! One, two, three!
-ALL: Just us!
(APPLAUSE)
-KERR: Congratulations.
-You too. Thank you, Coach.
-KERR: Oh, yeah, yeah.
-Hold! Yo, did y'all know?
-Oh, no, no, no.
-Did y'all know?
Coach Kerr now has the most wins
in Warrior history.
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)
Where's the game ball?
Where's the game ball?
Where's the game ball?
Go ahead. Go ahead.
I'm right here.
(ALL SHOUTING, CHEERING)
Congratulations.
(INAUDIBLE)
(INAUDIBLE)
REPORTER: Now that we've
reached 4,000,
if he can stay healthy,
how far can he take this?
8,000?
(LAUGHTER)
Yeah, who knows? Who knows?
-Curry.
-Ohh!
KERR: It just seems like it was
not too long ago
that he broke the record,
and he just keeps going the way
he, uh, keeps himself in shape
and conditioned, um, in rhythm,
he's gonna, you know...
He's going to make
another thousand for sure.
I mean, that's what I would
guess, but who knows?
BARTENDER: Hey, cheers, man,
cheers.
STEPHEN: Yes, cheers to 4,000.
I appreciate y'all.
(CHEERING)
-BAR PATRON: 4K.
-I know.
This is probably
the cleanest milestone.
I ain't going to be around
for five, but...
(LAUGHTER)
BAR PATRON: Don't say that, man.
Each one, yeah, each one
we're gonna enjoy... (CHUCKLES)
past this, see how far
I can push it,
but 4K sounds real nice.
So I appreciate you.
(CHEERING)
Thank you.
REPORTER 3: Big milestone
tonight.
I'm just curious,
do you celebrate at all?
Do you hit the golf course
tomorrow or anything like that?
STEPHEN: No, we got practice.
I'll enjoy some time
with the family,
come in, get our work in...
Played golf earlier in the week,
so that was
the birthday round and--
and then a nice little shot
of Gentlemen's Cut tonight.
That's about it.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
All right, I'll be back.
I gotta go lift.
REPORTER: Steve Kerr joked
that 8,000 is,
you know, not too far off...
I don't think he wants
to coach that long,
so don't put
that pressure on me.
-REPORTER: Okay. Thank you.
-'Cause I like a challenge.
REPORTER 2: Tonight, Steve ties
the franchise record for...
HIRWAY: If the only reason
why people were driven to create
was because
of some specific goal...
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
...it kind of ignores
the whole point
of where this thing
comes from.
That instinct and that drive to
make something never goes away.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
PAUL MCCARTNEY: I look
at my whole career,
and luckily I've done a lot.
But I still want to outdo
"Yesterday" myself, certainly.
I'm still looking
to write my best song.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
CHUCK D: The art journey
never ends.
There is no retirement.
As long as you have a heartbeat,
the beat goes on
because it keeps beating.
STEPHEN: You hit these
milestones along the way.
You know, you take time
to appreciate the moment...
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
...and then it's right back
to work.
You know,
there's something in me
that keeps pushing forward.
You don't do it
for the big moments.
It's always just
the love of the craft,
love of the game.
But truthfully...
5,000 sounds pretty nice,
too.
(NET SWISHES)
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
STEPHEN CURRY: I've been around
basketball my whole life.
It's always been part
of who I am.
But the more I played,
the more I started
to see it differently.
There's a freedom to it,
sense that it can become
whatever you make it.
A way to express yourself.
For me, it's never
just been a game.
It's always felt
more like an art.
STEVE KERR: Great artists
make you think differently.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
They take what came before them
and then expand on it.
Whether it's painting, or music,
or architecture.
It's taking what other people
have created
and creating something
of your own.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN:
When you're starting out,
you have to do something
that really excites you.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
And whatever's different
about that,
it's the things that you can
bring to what you're doing
that maybe not everybody else
is doing,
maybe not everybody else can do
or has thought to do.
That's what's gonna distinguish
the thing.
RICK RUBIN: The more yours
is personal,
the more it's not like hers,
or his, or theirs.
It's yours.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG:
Be you. Be unique.
You can follow
everybody else's stuff,
but then you're not you.
KERR: Every great artist has
that something.
The thing that sets them apart.
A signature where the world
kind of stops and says,
"Yeah, that's them."
For Steph,
it's the three-point shot.
("OH MY GOD" BY JAY-Z PLAYS)
JAY-Z: Let's go get 'em again,
Just.
Oh my god
Come on
BOB FITZGERALD: Curry for three.
Yes, sir!
MIKE BREEN: Crossover.
Fires away. Wow!
FITZGERALD: Curry!
BREEN: Curry splits the defense.
Behind the back! Fires a three!
Oh! He puts it in!
KERR: There's such a beauty
to the shot itself.
The way it comes off his hand,
the way it floats
through the air,
the backspin on the ball.
It really does feel like
you're watching a movie.
(CROWD CHEERING)
It's like the ball almost slows
down in midair.
BREEN: Curry sets, fires,
puts it up.
Bang!
KEVIN HARLAN: Got by Rivers.
Good if it goes.
FITZGERALD: Curry flings it
the other way!
And he got it!
JAY-Z: Iron, iron
HARLAN: The igniter
of the three-point revolution
of the NBA.
The man who changed the game.
BREEN: Bang! Oh, what a shot!
REGGIE MILLER: How all 30 teams
approach the game
is because of number 30.
HARLAN: Curry for the lead.
BREEN: Good!
(BUZZER)
ERIC COLLINS: That guy's
incredible!
HARLAN: Here's Curry
for the record!
It's good! There it is!
Stephen Curry!
The all-time three-point king
of the NBA!
(SONG ENDS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Yeah, QP, get them reps in.
Get them reps in.
-There he is.
-Good to see you. You good?
STEPHEN: Yes, sir, Andy.
Good to see you.
Thank you, sir.
Hey! Oh!
Way to look out for me, dawg.
Appreciate that.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Ooh, you.
-STEPHEN: Switch spots.
-TEAMMATE: H--- no.
Ohh!
(TEAMMATES BOOING, LAUGHING)
On two!
(LAUGHS)
(SCATTERED APPLAUSE)
Just us! One, two, three!
ALL: Just us!
STEPHEN: The more I've played,
the more I've learned.
You know, everybody's got
their own path.
Different directions,
different struggles.
The specific details change.
But the journey usually
begins the same.
CHUCK D: The initial thought
of making the art
is not
for somebody else.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
I feel you have to start
from within.
The thing that makes
your heart beat.
It's something
that will make you say,
"Hmm, I gotta go and do
that thing that gives me me."
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
HRISHIKESH HIRWAY: Every single
artistic success story
relies on so much aligning
in someone's life
outside of their life,
being in the right place
at the right time,
and maybe just somebody
putting a guitar in their hands
or a basketball
in their hands or,
you know, sitting them down
in front of the piano
at the exact moment
they need to do that.
WAYNE LARRIVEE:
Dell Curry fakes.
Toni Kuko runs at him.
Dell Curry hits a long two.
STEPHEN: For me,
that spark came early.
You know, with my dad being
in the league,
the game was around me
from day one.
BILL WALKER: Curry,
his wife Sonya,
and nine-month-old son Stephen,
now make their home
in South Charlotte.
Young Stephen
may not know it now,
basketball may be
his future.
DELL CURRY: Come on, make it.
You gotta make your first shot.
STEPHEN: I don't remember
my first basket.
DELL: Yay!
STEPHEN: I just remember
the feeling
of getting the ball
through the hoop.
Whoa! Yeah!
That little rush, you know.
SONYA CURRY: Steph,
shoot three points.
Come on, Steph.
STEPHEN: At first,
you don't even understand it.
(PARENTS CHEERING)
You're like, you know,
what was that?
What's this feeling?
Defense, man. Defense.
STEPHEN: I was just falling
in love with it,
and I wanted
to keep doing it.
And before I knew it...
-SONYA: Shoot it!
-...it was the only thing
I wanted to do.
That was out!
It went from a curiosity
to almost, like,
um, an obsession.
HARLAN: Good evening, everyone,
from San Francisco,
with NBA history
center stage tonight,
as Steph Curry aims for a
never-before-achieved milestone
of 4,000 made three-point shots.
No player has ever knocked down
that many threes
in the history of the NBA.
(CLOCK TICKS)
CJ, what up?
INTERVIEWER: Hey, what are you
chasing tonight, Steph?
Pretty cool milestone,
that clean 4,000 number, so...
Two, two away, hopefully get it,
whenever we get it,
but definitely special.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ALLIE LAFORCE: The breaking
the record was a big deal,
and then a couple weeks later,
you got 3,000,
and for some reason, those even
big numbers sound amazing.
Um, when did you start thinking
that 4,000 was a possibility?
-At 3,500.
-Okay.
STEPHEN: Yeah,
it's like every time you...
You get lost in the flow
of the season just knowing...
I mean, that's not
what I'm gunning for because...
LAFORCE: You're not going home
and playing the shot.
Yeah. Exactly.
Having a running tally.
But there was clean milestones,
'cause everything...
Every shot I make is a first...
-Yeah.
-...which is kind of cool.
STEPHEN: I've been blessed to be
in this game for a long time.
You know, every shot I make,
I still get that same rush I did
as a kid.
Yes!
But milestones like this
don't come around often.
There's something
a little more special about it.
-LAFORCE: Happy birthday, early.
-STEPHEN: Thank you very much.
LAFORCE: What are you turning,
40...? 37?
-Thirty... You say 40?
-37, yeah.
-Yeah, do you feel 37?
Yeah, and no at the same time,
like...
LAFORCE: Once you
get warmed up--
STEPHEN: Young in life,
but old out here in basketball,
it just does take you
a little longer to get...
yeah, loose and warm,
but I can still get there.
The older you get,
the more you realize
the door is not open forever.
And you never really know
when it's gonna be over.
Oh, yeah,
just loosening up a little bit.
-Huh?
-Just loosening up a little bit.
It's like a little nerve that...
It's annoying.
It's not getting worse.
It just woke me up a little bit.
-(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
-Yeah.
So, you know, I just appreciate
every moment out there.
I'm blessed to still be here,
be part of this.
Doing the thing I love.
You know, carrying forward
what my heroes once carried.
STEVEN SPIELBERG: My whole love
for this media...
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
...comes from paying attention
to the past.
All the geniuses
that all of us are learning from
and upon whose shoulders
we stand.
STEPHEN: I was fortunate to,
you know,
witness greatness up close
on a nightly basis.
My dad, his release,
the confidence he played with.
MARTIN: Curry with 27.
STEPHEN: That was the first
picture I had of the game.
Then it was guys like Reggie,
Ray, the shooters I studied
every night.
You know, Reggie,
constant motion,
always finding space.
BREEN: Miller, a three!
Bang!
STEPHEN: Ray, same form,
same stroke, every single time.
MIKE GORMAN: Ray Allen
for the game.
NEWSCASTER: Hey, you might think
this is Reggie Miller's son,
but it isn't.
It's actually Dell Curry's son,
Stephen.
And he looks like a future
point guard for the Hornets.
STEPHEN: Every day
I'd be out there,
you know, launching shots,
trying to emulate my heroes.
Paying attention
to all those little things
that make the difference.
(SCATTERED CHEERS)
RUBIN: It's the obsessive nature
of being really into something
that once you start down
a thread,
you just keep pulling forever.
Many of the artists
that are great at what they do
are great at what they do
for that very reason.
They fall in love
with this thing,
and then they just want
to know everything
they could possibly learn
about it.
STEPHEN: The more I started
to understand,
the more I saw that, you know,
everyone had their own voice.
And as I got older, I started
wondering more and more,
you know, what my version
of the game might sound like.
STEVE SCOTT: Good evening,
everybody,
and welcome to Chase Center!
For tonight's matchup featuring
the visiting Sacramento Kings
versus your
Golden State Warriors!
-STEPHEN: Come on!
-Aah!
Whoo!
Here we go.
Thank you for this day.
Thank you for bringing us here.
We ask you bless
our performance tonight.
Keep us safe,
free from injury.
Play the best to our ability.
Do it together and have fun.
Keep building.
Tonight we pray.
-Amen.
-PLAYERS: Amen.
Come on, fellas, from the jump.
Let's go.
Just us, one, two, three.
PLAYERS: Just us!
STEPHEN: Let's go!
CHILDREN:
O say can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly...
(SINGING FADES OUT)
...of the free
And the home of the brave
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)
SCOTT: Thank you.
STEPHEN: You tell yourself
it's just another game.
But when you're standing
on the edge
of something this big,
you definitely feel
the weight of it.
SCOTT: Playing his first
NBA season
out of Boston College.
Number 21.
Quentin Po-Po-Po-Post!
(PYROTECHNICS BOOMING)
Playing in his 13th year.
From Michigan State.
STEPHEN: Yes, sir!
SCOTT: Number 23.
Draymond Green!
Playing his 14th year.
From Tomball, Texas.
Number 10.
Jimmy But-But-But-Butler III.
And now, in his 16th NBA season,
out of Davidson!
Number 30, Stephen Curry!
(CROWD CHEERS)
STEPHEN: When everything starts
to build, you know,
the noise,
the weight of the moment,
I just try and stay present,
stay grounded,
and, you know, trust the thing
that got me here
in the first place.
ALAN WATTS: We all
admire artists.
(CAMERA SHUTTER
CLICKS)
They seem to dance
or paint
or play the piano
so effortlessly.
Of course a lot of work
has gone into it.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
RUBIN: I think there's
a mythology...
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
...that the people
who make things that we love
are special people.
We think that they're these
magic people on Mount Olympus
who are geniuses,
and then there's the rest of us.
And that's not the case.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
MALCOLM GLADWELL:
There's clearly this thing
called talent.
It's the magic dust.
I think a lot of what
we call talent
is the desire to persist.
It's that you love something
so much
you want to do a lot of it.
WATTS: If you are
a great artist,
your so-called periods
of practice,
when you sit for hours
and study your technique,
you will not do that effectively
unless it is a pleasure for you.
You have to come to the point
where going over it
again and again...
...is a dance.
(CROWD CHEERS)
Straight out the game, boy!
Let's get another win up!
HARLAN: 17 games to go
after tonight
and everything is
tightly packed in there.
STAN VAN GUNDY: Absolutely.
You're fighting for every spot
because Sacramento
more than likely
is gonna end up in the play-in.
But every spot you move up there
gives you a better chance
-to advance.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
And Golden State fighting
like heck
to get into those top six.
(CLOCK TICKING)
TIM ROYE: Opening tip
controlled by Golden State.
Draymond Green
with a pass over to Steph Curry.
Curry minus-two threes
from 4,000.
Here's Draymond Green.
Takes Valanciunas down low.
Throws it back up to Butler.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER, SHOUTS)
Butler off of Curry's screen...
TERRY STOTTS: Three, two, boom!
Boom!
STEPHEN: Square! Square!
JONAS Valanciunas: Shot!
(PLAYERS SPEAKING INDISTINCLTY)
DRAYMOND GREEN:
Yeah, go, get QP.
KERR: All right, Steph!
Go back. Go back. That's it.
That's it.
HARLAN: Butler fakes a three.
Draymond from the corner.
STOTTS: Boom!
HARLAN: That's a pretty good way
to start the game.
STEPHEN: Every game you play is
a chance to make something new.
But each one has
its own challenges.
Go, go, go.
VAN GUNDY: Do you see how
they're playing Curry?
HARLAN: Yeah.
VAN GUNDY: Keegan Murray is just
staying glued to Steph Curry.
HARLAN: Are there Curry rules?
VAN GUNDY: Well, there are
for some teams for sure.
And there certainly is tonight.
STEPHEN: Some days
it comes easy.
Most days it doesn't.
-(SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)
-Come on!
STEPHEN: And you can figure out
pretty quickly
what kind of night
it's gonna be.
ROYE: Curry being
top-blocked by Murray.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
-And Draymond drives
and draws a foul.
TOM TOLBERT: Top-blocking,
in essence,
is just kind of taking
a defender
and putting him
on top of the guy
instead of your
natural position.
So it's harder for him
to get those threes off.
STEPHEN: You got to fight
for every inch out there.
And that fight always starts
with yourself.
(LIGHTS CLUNKING)
Most days it's not exciting.
(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
You know, it's quiet,
repetitive.
Sometimes boring.
Frustrating.
(EXHALES, GRUNTS)
You know, it's hours, days,
years in the gym.
Running the same read.
Constantly drilling movement.
That's kind of like a dance,
you know.
There's a rhythm to it.
You drill the timing.
You feel out the space.
You tweak one step
just to maybe get a clean look.
Hey!
SCOTT: Stephen Curry!
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
-(BUZZER)
See what I'm saying?
I'm gonna tell you
to just move up the floor
'cause they're crazy
top-blocked.
I ain't ever seen it.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
KERR: Great job, Dray.
Way to go, Jimmy.
Good stuff, Mo.
Every time they score,
Murray is all over Steph.
So one of you guys, give Steph
a screen without the ball.
Be ready for this,
all this junk they're throwing.
They're just top-blocking
Steph everywhere.
Wouldn't surprise me
if they play zone.
STEPHEN: Nothing's ever
come easy.
People see the shots fall.
But they don't see the work
it took to get there.
(CROWD SHOUTING)
DELL: Come on, Steph.
STEPHEN: I've been blessed
to have my dad
kind of lead the way.
And I felt I had this
God-given opportunity.
But that only takes you so far.
You know, nobody's born
with great technique.
My so-called natural shot
was trash.
Had to rebuild the whole thing
from scratch.
Quicker, higher release.
But the whole process
was brutal.
Three months
of missing everything.
It kind of felt like
a punishment.
And one, two, go.
STEPHEN: It was so bad
that I almost quit the game
altogether.
Uh, but my mom kept me
steady through that.
SONYA: That's it! That's it!
Unh!
Defense! Hustle!
STEPHEN: She had been there
before as an athlete.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
She knew what it took
and she made sure
I found that in myself.
(BUZZER BLARING)
SPORTSCASTER: Stephen Curry
this year has put a stamp
on this team.
This is his team.
Over the summer, he's worked
on his game tremendously.
STEPHEN: When it finally clicked
and I saw all that work
paying off...
that's when I began
to understand
what the process is.
(CLOCK TICKING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
FAN: Come on, defense!
Let's go, baby!
STEPHEN: You're good!
You're good! Flip it!
(BOOM ECHOES)
But you have to be patient.
Come up for it!
(PLAYERS CHATTER INDISTINCTLY)
-(CROWD CHEERING)
-(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT)
ROYE: 17-6.
Valanciunas handoff DeRozan.
DeRozan rotates up top.
Keon Ellis on the floor.
-ROYE: Bad pass Ellis.
-TOLBERT: Yikes.
ROYE: It goes
out of bounds.
And turnover on Sacramento.
STEPHEN: At some point
you realize the real growth
isn't just putting in the time.
It's how that work starts
forming who you are out there.
ROYE: Curry handling.
Flipped it to Draymond.
Back cut Kuminga.
Down the lane over Valanciunas.
No good, as Valanciunas
defended it well.
Outlet to the frontcourt
to Ellis.
Throws it back to LaVine.
Stepback off the dribble.
Jumper good...
STEPHEN: Shoot that.
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
(CROWD GROANS)
KERR: Let's go. Hey!
ROYE: DeRozan at midcourt.
Driving on Moody.
Pass blocked by Moody.
Taken by Kuminga.
STEPHEN: And when you're trying
to find your identity
out there...
there's always people trying
to tell you what you're not.
ANNOUNCER: Stephen Curry!
STEPHEN: When it was time
to make that jump,
you know, the bigger schools
already had their minds made up.
"He's too small."
"Can't defend."
"You know, won't hold up
against bigger guys."
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
But then, one school saw
something in me.
Davidson gave me a shot.
Told me they'd take me
just as I am.
And I decided right then I was
gonna double down on the work.
You know, trust the process.
And become the best version
of myself possible.
SPORTSCASTER:
Looks like a young pup.
Looks just like he could be
still playing in high school.
SPORTSCASTER 2:
And as we said,
he played
his high school ball nearby.
Curry!
STEPHEN: I was in the gym
every day
just putting the work in.
Lifting, shooting, studying,
getting stronger, sharper,
more locked in.
Really starting
to hone my craft.
SPORTSCASTER 3: He's only
a freshman, so you know
he's gonna be in the weight room
in the offseason.
A couple years down the road,
he's gonna be something.
STEPHEN: I started to experiment
with the game.
Test the limits
of what I could do.
I wanted to know every angle,
every cut,
every inch of space
that mattered.
No stone left unturned.
Just really starting
to hone my craft and, you know,
fall in love with the grind.
VIRGIL ABLOH: The idea is
to work hard.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
Do the 10,000 hours.
I mean like actually
working hard.
You have to love the pain of not
having everything so easy.
Anyone's name
that you can reference--
Warhol, Lagerfeld, Jobs--
the reason why
those one-word names
reference a whole body
of work
is that they
tirelessly dedicated their life
to that work.
GUS JOHNSON: Ohh!
SPORTSCASTER 5: Everybody
might think this is Dell Curry,
great NBA star,
and his lovely wife Sonya.
This isn't.
Tonight, this is Stephen's dad
and Stephen's mom.
JIM NANTZ: America had heard
about him,
and now we know about him.
Stephen Curry leads Davidson
into the second round.
(GRUNTS)
STEPHEN: It's really the
obsession with the small stuff.
You know, where your hand is
when you come off the catch.
Finding your defender
to create separation.
Keep your balance
as you shift your weight.
Square up your shoulders
to the basket.
Roll the ball off your fingers
for that perfect release
and that perfect arc.
(NET SWISHES)
You do it every day.
Hundreds of thousands of reps.
Over and over and over.
Until it's automatic.
(HEARTBEAT THUMPS)
I stopped looking for a lane...
...and started building my own.
HARLAN: 3,999 threes!
(CROWD CHEERING, WHISTLING)
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
One more to 4,000.
(CLOCK TICKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Dribble.
HARLAN: Down low, Steph.
A lot of traffic.
Payton aims, fires. Got it.
(CROWD CHEERS)
ROYE: 23-9.
Warriors in control here early.
Handoff to Murray.
Murray Euro-steps in.
Ball stripped. Gets it back.
Over to DeRozan. Baseline drive.
Pass inside Valanciunas.
Layup good.
Curry takes the pass.
Spins away from Murray.
Sees Ellis...
STEPHEN: I earned my spot.
You know, put in the work
and proved
I could hold my own
against anybody.
But when the stage
gets bigger...
you know, those lights
definitely get hotter.
DAVID STERN: The Golden State
Warriors select...
Stephen Curry
from Davidson College.
STEPHEN: Being drafted is
the dream, man.
But you realize real quick
how big this thing is.
STEVE LAVIN: Is he gonna be
strong enough
against NBA defenders
over the course
of an 82-game schedule
to get the ball
in the operational area?
Is he gonna understand time,
score, and situations?
STEPHEN: In college, you know,
it's family in the stands.
In the league,
it's millions of eyes.
And every move you make gets put
under a microscope.
Hit me hard
DOUG GOTTLIEB:
You had Steph,
who's a spectacular shooter,
but not a true point.
SPORTSCASTER:
He didn't play point guard
until he was a junior.
As a sophomore,
he was the off guard.
SPORTSCASTER 2: And he's trying
to find his way in the NBA.
STEPHEN: Everything's on tape.
Everything gets analyzed.
And everyone's got an opinion.
PATTI SMITH: Any artist
can't expect to be embraced.
You just keep doing your work
because you have to.
Because it's your calling.
ROYE: ...jumper. Good!
Kick out Curry.
Another three... good!
STEPHEN: It's easy to get
distracted by everything
that comes
with the spotlight.
ROYE: And throw the lob!
STEPHEN: You know, you just have
to continue to trust the process
and stick to the vision.
ROYE: Curry.
A teardrop!
What a shot!
PATTI: Be concerned
with doing good work
and make the right choices.
And if you build a good name,
that name will be
its own currency.
-HARLAN: Curry with a three.
-SPORTSCASTER 3: Stephen Curry.
ROYE: Curry!
A career high!
Curry takes the pass.
Spins away from Murray.
Sees Ellis.
Right up on him
on the left wing.
STEPHEN: I've learned
to appreciate the stage.
The tension, the noise,
it all means
you've done something right.
But this journey always finds
new ways to test you.
(CROWD GROANS)
ROYE: The crowd was
starting to rise to their feet.
They want to be part
of a celebration.
(CLOCK TICKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
LaRavia now is the one
top-blocking Curry,
not even looking
for any sort of help.
Up top, Hield,
dribbles down with three,
with two, takes a contested two.
It's a back rim miss
and Looney, the rebound.
Time-out to be charged
to Golden State.
2:40 to go in the first quarter.
25-13, Warriors on top.
QUINTEN POST: Need to get
to that counter.
STEPHEN: No, no, no. It's...
FAN: Steph, Steph, Steph!
STEPHEN: No, we're good.
It's not gonna be
with this group
'cause they're gonna switch
their whole defense.
But if we get stalled,
it's always gonna be me
over here.
A top-block.
This whole space
-is gonna be open.
-Backdoor.
As long as we can get the ball
right here,
we're proper spacing.
That's only if we get stuck.
That's a get-out-of-jail card.
We gotta just play basketball
though.
But just know,
I'm always trying to set him up
'cause he's all the way
on the top side.
This whole space is wide open.
Drop down. No.
That's a--
We got to run though...
We're good.
ARI WALLER: Whoever gets it
is gonna be our winner
for two tickets...
KERR: Welcome back, JK.
ARI: I know I'm ready.
Fans, let's cheer 'em on.
STEPHEN: That's not even a play.
It's not even a play.
It's just hittin' the ball
on one side.
I'm in the other corner
and as long as we have
somebody on that wing,
-I got the whole...
-STOTTS: Yeah.
They're not even considering
the basketball.
Hey, we're trying to run
that little flip...
we're trying to run
the flip play
to get Monk and LaVine back
to their right hands. Right?
So, we're shading them this way.
They kick it.
They're walking down.
They're coming and setting it.
Now they get back
to their right hand, right?
We can switch it. All right?
You guys feel that?
STEPHEN: You got some heat?
STEPHEN:
This game is gonna test you.
Physically and mentally,
your body starts feeling things
it used to shake off.
(PAINED EXHALE)
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
Little stuff that lingers.
Things that used to take a day,
now it's a week.
Ankle, knees, back, shoulders.
You know, it all adds up.
You start kind of questioning
the tools that got you here.
You know, can I still
move the same?
React the same?
How much more time
is my body gonna give me?
HARLAN: Steph Curry
is still out of the game.
We saw him holding his back
moments ago.
STEPHEN: It messes
with your mind.
BRANDIN PODZIEMSKI:
You want a pad?
STEPHEN: Yeah.
VIOLA DAVIS: I know the language
of the artist.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
And the language
of the artist is,
someone's gonna find me out.
I may not be as great
as people think I am.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
KRIS BOWERS: The craft part
is actually the easy part.
The thing that can be
challenging
is navigating
that internal critic,
not being good enough,
being on the brink of failure,
dissatisfaction and frustration
and doubt.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
MICHAEL:
It's the imposter syndrome.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
It's the blessings that you
can't really accept fully.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
And the worst part is the--
the loneliness
that comes with that.
You know, the responsibility
that you have...
is isolating.
-(CROWD GROANS)
-FITZGERALD: Steph is hurt.
Steph Curry is hurt.
He went straight down
and never moved.
AZUBUIKE: Oh, man.
STEPHEN: At first it just feels
like bad luck.
A slip here, a mistake there.
You try and pull yourself
together, fight through.
But it keeps happening.
SPORTSCASTER 8: Spraining
and re-spraining
that right ankle again.
FITZGERALD: Curry
behind his back
and he's pulled to the ground.
-Oh, no.
-Holy...
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
(CHEERING)
STEPHEN: Just kind of getting
fed up with having to deal with
the same thing
over and over again.
My main goal right now
is just try to get healthy,
and what that means,
I'm not sure yet.
I'm sure we'll have
a better idea
of what we're gonna do
going forward.
And then one day, it's not just
a setback, it's a full stop.
-...off his leg and...
-Oh, my goodness.
-Steph Curry hurt himself again.
-Steph Curry turned his ankle.
HARLAN: Steph Curry
sprained his ankle
five different times this year.
Should Golden State
be worried about
what Curry's going through?
GREG ANTHONY: Yes.
STEPHEN: You're stuck
watching from the outside,
trying to figure out
where you fit in the picture.
Then out of nowhere,
the whole picture shifts.
DENNIS O'DONNELL:
Well, the Monta Ellis era
in Oakland is over.
BROADCASTER: A lot of
Warrior fans walking around
with a bewildered look
on their face after that one.
O'DONNELL:
Moving Ellis means
this is Stephen Curry's
team to run.
STEPHEN: You want to rise
to the moment,
and you want
to prove people right.
But inside, that doubt
is louder than ever.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
Your mind starts going
to some dark places, man.
What if I'm not strong enough,
big enough, good enough?
You know, what if this
isn't what I was meant to be?
You know, that's when you lean
on the people closest to you.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
The ones who have been there
since the start.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
The ones in your corner
every day.
Remember why you're here,
why you started
in the first place.
And have faith that you're
only given the setbacks
you were built to handle.
BROADCASTER: Steph Curry,
who missed extensive time,
40 games last year,
finalized that extension
with the team.
BROADCASTER 2:
The deal is for four years
and $44 million.
STEPHEN: Dub Nation,
let 'em hear you.
Warriors!
Even with all the doubts
around my health,
that contract showed
the team believed in me.
And I wanted to show
that I believed in them, too.
-GREEN: Boom!
-STEPHEN: Boom!
And not just with the rehab,
but how I carried myself.
You know, how I showed up
for the team.
(CROWD CHEERS)
Yeah, Mo!
I was gonna prove to the owners,
the fans, my teammates.
-STOTTS: Hey, get in there.
-Go, Steph.
STEPHEN: And most importantly,
myself,
that this is what
I was meant to do.
HARLAN: When Curry began
his career,
there were a lot of questions
about his health.
He was having,
and he eventually had,
four surgeries on each ankle.
VAN GUNDY: Yeah, no question.
His health. His size.
He was not
a "can't miss" prospect.
So, give the Warriors credit.
BREEN: Jarrett Jack,
what a pass!
Putting it up and in!
STEPHEN: You know, you go
to those dark places, but...
those are the moments
that build you.
And when you push through
the doubt,
stay true to your vision,
you come out
the other side stronger.
KERR: Behind you.
Get there.
STEPHEN: Pieces start
falling into place.
(NET SWISHES)
And, you know,
people you weren't expecting
show up right when
they're supposed to.
KERR: So they're top-blocking
everything.
GREEN: I can go rifle.
I think we go angle small
next time.
Rifle.
Let's have you handle,
-and then we'll put...
-QP?
You want to put QP or Jimmy
in that strong side corner?
Jimmy's gotta handle.
Draymond on the weak side.
GREEN: I'll go corner
and Jimmy handle.
I know, but if Valanciunas is
on you, I'd like you to handle.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW:
Find your community.
Find the people to work with
that are gonna let you thrive.
That are gonna allow you
to express yourself creatively.
That trust you,
and trust that you're doing
the right thing for them.
STEPHEN: When Coach Kerr
came in,
there was a trust from day one.
You know, we were aligned
in how we saw the game.
FITZGERALD: I want to thank
all of you for coming.
It's a special day
for the Warriors,
the day we announce Steve Kerr
as the head coach.
STEPHEN: He had forged
his own path,
established his own style,
and came in
with nothing but support.
KERR: There's some
wonderful players on this roster
who are committed to each other
and committed
to the organization,
and I'm excited to become
a part of that.
Right next to Gui,
go back to Gui.
Gui, Gui, Gui! Gui!
Sub, sub, sub!
STEPHEN: You know,
we share the same vision,
and he helped bring
the best out of me.
BREEN: Curry splits the defense.
Behind the back!
Fires a three! He puts it in!
STEPHEN: There's nothing
more valuable than, you know,
having someone encourage you
to be yourself...
and has your back
when things get tough.
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
JOSH TIVEN: No, no. Offensive.
KERR: No! Are you kidding me?
He's not allowed
to hold him, Josh.
TIVEN: No. Dray ran
right up his back.
KERR: He's standing right there.
TIVEN: I didn't call it on--
I couldn't call it on Steph.
Dray runs right up his back.
I know, but he's holding Steph
the whole time.
-Let's go. Okay, all right.
-All right.
STEPHEN: When everybody starts
seeing it the same way,
that's when it becomes
more like a collaboration.
VAN GUNDY: Steph Curry's
actually at his most dangerous
when he gives the ball up.
You see it here.
Steph Curry's screen.
The threes show up
on the stats sheet,
but he does a lot of things
that will never show up
on the stats.
STEPHEN: You're bouncing ideas
off each other in real time.
You know, reads, rhythm, tempo.
KERR: You know, if basketball
were music, it would be jazz.
There's a five-person beat
and harmony,
but there's individual
brilliance that emerges
that's often not choreographed.
-(NET SWISHES)
-(CROWD CHEERS)
BUDDY RICH: Unless there's
a complete understanding
between trumpets, trombones,
and saxophones
and the rhythm section,
you just have 15 guys
playing music.
Everyone must have
the same emotional feeling
about what they're playing.
KERR: The best teams
are the ones
that really recognize
who they are,
find their style,
their identity,
and then they have
their own kind of lead artist,
pushing the boundaries
of what your team can be
and how it sort of evolves
from that lead guy.
BREEN: At five,
Curry for the lead.
Good!
ADAM SILVER: First player
in 55 years
as a Warrior to win the MVP.
STEPHEN: When you trust
the people around you
and you have faith in yourself,
all that doubt starts to fade,
and you just...
play.
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT ECHOES)
WATTS: There is a principle
called Wu Wei.
Wu Wei is the principle
of not forcing
in anything that you do.
When we watch any performance
of an artist,
be it a dancer or a musician,
we know immediately
when the performance is forced.
And we say it doesn't ring true,
it's too artificial,
it doesn't seem to be natural.
Shakespeare knew perfectly well,
"there is a tide
in the affairs of men which,
taken at its flood,
leads on to fortune."
And so Wu Wei is based
on knowledge of the tide,
the drift of things,
get with it.
Wu Wei is the art of sailing
rather than the art of rowing.
MIKE SUGERMAN: 28 years old,
and he is well on his way
to becoming the Bay Area's
most popular athlete ever.
BLOOM DE WILDE: You know,
when you are playing music,
and it just...
there's no thoughts.
You are just being,
and everything is right.
You know that feeling.
I think all musicians
know that feeling.
That's why we want
to make music,
because that's the best feeling
in the world.
STEPHEN: It feels like
you're floating.
Everything kind of disappears.
Noise gets muffled.
Your vision gets narrow.
But the thing is,
you can't force it.
You can't chase it.
Hey! (GRUNTS)
The harder you try to grab
ahold of it,
the more it kind of slips away.
HARLAN: And here's Curry.
He's hit one three
and he's one away from 4,000.
Here it is. Curry! No.
Rebound. Fought for. Deflected.
Monk. Downcourt.
-Ellis is there.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
And he slams it in.
Time-out Golden State.
ROYE: 59-39.
20-point lead for the Dubs.
They're just playing
a nasty game.
So, we like,
don't worry about me
'cause it's gonna open up
in transition or something.
You're gonna make
your f------ three.
No, no, no.
I'm not worried about--
I'm talking about--
just the idea that...
I'm going to dribble this b----
at you every play...
(BOTH LAUGH)
until you move and get the ball.
(STEPHEN LAUGHING)
STEPHEN: All right, bet.
All right, bet it.
I got 2:40 to get one in.
(CLOCK TICKING)
Square! Square! Square! Square!
ROYE: DeMar DeRozan
dribbles right side.
Rotates over to Monk.
Run off the line by Curry.
Up top to Ellis.
He'll take a three and nailed it
above the break left side.
And the Warriors
had better be careful.
20-point leads aren't
what they used to be.
TOLBERT: No,
not with the threes.
ROYE: Curry doubled.
To Post.
Out to Draymond.
Bounce pass through traffic.
And it hit Ellis in the leg.
He picks it up.
GREEN: Take him! Take him!
ROYE: The play had
zero chance of getting through.
Square! Square! Square! Go!
ROYE: And the Warriors
have their lead down to 12.
It was 23 at one point.
And they were rolling.
They kind of lost
some momentum here.
15-4 Sacramento run.
Final 48 seconds in the half.
Butler to Curry.
Throws a bad pass in traffic.
Off his hand, Monk the steal...
(CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)
Two seconds. One second.
Post fires it from backcourt.
On the way!
-It's off the glass.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
The 23-point lead
is down to 10.
61-51.
A 17-4 Kings push
to end the half right here.
Waiting for Curry to see if he
can get to 4,000 threes tonight.
YOUNG FAN: Curry, Curry, Curry!
STEPHEN: When you're standing
at the edge of something
that could stand
the test of time,
you know, everyone's here
hoping to see it happen.
Sometimes barriers come up.
Obstacles that you might not
be able to overcome
in that particular moment.
And you have to sit
with the reality
that you might not
be able to do it.
KERR: Here we go, fellas.
Lock back in.
We're gonna go angle small.
All right?
I want Jimmy to handle.
Swing to Dray
and then you guys exchange.
So, Moses will be here.
Jimmy, you'll be
on the baseline.
And we're setting
the angle small for Dray.
You got rifle action
if you want it, Dray.
-STEPHEN: Come on, just us.
-KERR: Here we go, fellas.
-KERR: Come on.
-STEPHEN: Get a stop.
GREEN: Here we go, here we go.
ROYE: Game on
here in San Francisco.
TOLBERT: The Warriors kind of
let their foot off the gas,
and Kings are right back
in this thing.
ROYE: Murray continues
to top-block Curry.
Pass in traffic.
Moody somehow gets it.
-Knocked away.
-(BUZZER)
It'll be a shot clock
violation...
KERR: Swing! Swing!
ROYE: Posting up LaVine.
Draws a crowd. Finds Curry.
Over to Moody.
He's wide open above the break
right side swing.
SCOTT: Moses Moody!
-STEPHEN: Hey, man!
-ROYE: 74-67.
Warriors up seven.
Here goes Moody.
Dribble drive.
On the way.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
-Got pushed by Monk.
STEPHEN: Hey.
Square, square, square!
ROYE: DeRozan spinning
on Curry at the foul line.
Turns and shoots.
The shot's up. It's good.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
-And a foul on Steph Curry.
TIVEN: Landing on the foot,
Steph.
(CROWD BOOING)
Thirty. Thirty.
ROYE: That shouldn't be
a foul on Steph at all.
TOLBERT: Really shouldn't. No.
He jumped forward.
I didn't even come
into his landing.
I'm going this way.
KERR: What did he do, Josh?
He kicked his foot out.
The only reason
he stepped on him
is 'cause he kicked
his foot out.
-Help him.
-KERR: Nothing there.
Steph's getting held every play,
and there's not a single call,
and you're gonna call that?
I agree on a physical game,
but he kicks his foot out.
There's nothing.
(INAUDIBLE)
-HARLAN: LaVine knocks it in.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
And it's a six-point game
in San Francisco.
That's not open deny.
Open deny is here,
and we dribble at,
and we go there, right?
We can't execute open deny
on the fly.
STEPHEN: When you're wrapped up
in outcomes,
you start overthinking.
(CLOCK TICKING)
Worrying about the makes,
the misses, how it all adds up.
That's when the game starts
to feel heavy.
You second guess, hesitate.
Lose the rhythm that got you
here in the first place.
(MUFFLED CHATTER)
Sometimes you just need
to make a conscious decision.
KERR: You gotta lock back in.
All right? Here we go.
STEPHEN: Stop forcing it,
stop chasing it,
stop trying to control it.
Here we go!
Square! Square! Square!
You know, trust yourself.
Trust the hours.
And, you know,
just get out there
and do what you love doing.
Hey, come on.
Gotta give me the ball.
JON BATISTE: If you
don't live it,
and it's not a part of you,
it's not gonna come out
of the instrument.
What we play is life.
What we create is life.
It's channeled to you
for everyone in that moment
never to happen again.
BREEN: The Golden State Warriors
are the 2015 NBA Champions,
their first title in 40 years.
STEPHEN: When you finally start
to slip into that flow state,
it's just movement,
instinct, creativity.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
DAVID BOWIE: Always go
a little further into the water
than you feel you're capable
of being in.
Go a little bit out
of your depth,
and when you don't feel
that your feet
are quite touching
the bottom...
you're just about
in the right place
to do something exciting.
VERN GLENN: 402 three-pointers,
record.
BROADCASTER 2: ...by becoming
the first unanimous winner
of the Kia NBA MVP Award.
STEPHEN: When the whole group
is moving as one,
it becomes bigger than yourself.
CIARA: No matter
what adversity,
no matter what
you've gone through,
when you're in your element,
fully in that moment,
dance and just vibe to
the record like you feel free.
ROYE: The Warriors are
NBA Champions again.
HARLAN: Got by Rivers.
Good if it goes.
BREEN: The Golden State Warriors
champions once again.
Back-to-back titles,
three in four years.
And the latest with a sweep.
STEPHEN: Your body just
kind of takes over,
moving quicker than your mind.
(YELLS)
You stop thinking and the game
starts to just fall into place.
NINA SIMONE: I'll tell you
what freedom is to me.
No fear.
I've had a couple of times on
stage when I really felt free.
And that's something else.
That's really something else!
(INDISTINCT COMMENTARY)
FITZGERALD: For the win!
Yes, sir!
BREEN: Their fourth title
in eight years.
The Dubs dynasty is still
very much alive.
STEPHEN: You stop trying
to force things.
And, you know,
just surrender to the moment.
You know, trust everything
that got you here.
DELL: Come on, make it--
you gotta make your first shot.
ANNOUNCER: Stephen Curry!
STEPHEN: You just let
the craft take over.
The instincts,
the rhythm, the feel.
STERN: The Golden State Warriors
select...
Stephen Curry
from Davidson College.
STEPHEN: All those years
shaping the thing you love...
shows up in that one shot.
-(CROWD ERUPTS)
-HARLAN: There it is!
Number 4,000!
A shot for the ages
from a player for the ages.
Truly the portrait of an artist.
Unbelievable.
And on an night where
he's not a hundred percent,
the standing ovation here.
They are not gonna stop
the game,
but 4,000 threes by Curry.
Unimaginable not too long ago,
but here he's achieved it.
One day shy
of his 37th birthday.
Put in Kuminga...
SCOTT: Dub Nation!
With the last three-pointer
by Stephen Curry,
he becomes the only player
in NBA history
to have reached
4,000 career three-pointers!
(CROWD CHEERING)
By reaching this milestone,
Curry increases his margin
on the all-time three-pointers
main leaderboard
by nearly 900 three-pointers!
-Way to go, Steph.
-SCOTT: Chase Center,
make some noise
and congratulate number 30,
Stephen Curry!
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)
Hey, Steph, what's going on?
It's Andris.
Just wanted to say
congratulations
on reaching
4,000 career threes.
Just in case you forgot,
I assisted you
on your first career three
in 2009 in Phoenix.
STEPHEN: I don't think anyone
really starts out,
you know,
thinking about legacy.
On the verge of crossing
4,000 three-pointers.
It's just a testament
to who he is, his hard work,
the type of person he is.
STEPHEN: Milestones are
reminders of the blessings,
but, you know,
they're not the whole story.
GUI SANTOS: ...already saw
in my life.
KERR: One of the great artists
ever
in the history of mankind,
and we're blessed to be able
to watch you.
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)
Let's blitz!
They set the screen with you.
STEPHEN: Each one is just
kind of like a snapshot.
And as you get closer to the end
than the beginning,
you start to wonder
what they all add up to mean.
BRIAN ENO:
It's an interesting question
for any artist
to ask themselves.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
I've been asking this question
pretty much continuously
since I was 17 years old...
"Why am I doing this?
And what difference
does it make to the world?"
KERR: So you're gonna be
on either LaVine or Monk,
whoever's out there.
They'll probably set it
with him.
So let's blitz.
Everybody be ready to rotate.
You got it, Loon?
We're blitzing with Steph
and that's one with, uh...
-Congratulations, my brother.
-Appreciate you, brother.
-Yes, sir.
-KERR: ...DeMar when they try
to bring him in to him.
-Yes, sir. Let's get it.
-Just us. One, two, three!
Yes, sir.
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
No, I'm Ellis.
-DEMAR DEROZAN: Good job.
-Appreciate you, dawg. Yes, sir.
ROYE: And I know what
Steph's thinking right now.
"Hey, let's get this win,
then we can celebrate."
Nothing worse than getting
a milestone in a loss.
STEPHEN: At first,
it's just a thing you do.
You know, something you love,
trying to get better at it.
(YELLS INDISTINCTLY)
But after a while,
you start to see how...
doing what you do
has an effect on people.
HARLAN: Oh, Kuminga!
Muscling in
and throwing it down.
STEPHEN: You start to realize
it's more than just
the scoreboard,
the records.
You know,
there's something deeper to it.
HARLAN: He does have
pedestrian numbers tonight,
on this historic night,
where he goes by 4,000 threes.
Kuminga got it!
And it is turning into...
STEPHEN: It becomes something
that you all get
to share together.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
VIOLA: Artists,
you see life different, right?
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
That's why you came
into this profession.
The gift.
To be healers.
To be alchemists.
To buck the system.
Because your purpose
is not what you do.
It's what happens to people
when you do what you do.
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)
STEPHEN: Square! Square! Square!
-Oh, yeah!
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
Oh! Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
You know,
it's like a deep connection
between you and the fans,
you and the city.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
They give you everything
they've got,
and all you can do is
try to give something back.
HARLAN: Taps it out
to Kuminga.
Curry, the other way.
Curry tonight, 11 points,
2 of 5 from three.
Another one right here.
Rebound Moody, pushed, shot.
Rebound Monk.
Three and a half to go.
LaVine-- Stolen by Curry!
And he'll take it.
A lot of white jerseys
around him.
DeRozan deflects it
out of bounds.
VAN GUNDY: I think
we've probably gonna--
seen the last
of Steph Curry here.
As you said,
his back's been bothering him.
ROYE: And now,
walking slowly over
to the bench...
(CROWD CHEERS)
Mr. 4,000, Stephen Curry.
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)
-Congratulations, Steph.
-Appreciate it, Coach.
KERR: Way to go, Moses.
Great night again.
I thought you'd
have six steals today.
STEPHEN: All right, d---.
You gotta let me play defense.
I'm trying to be like you.
Welcome back.
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE CONTINUES)
AYESHA CURRY: Yeah!
STEPHEN: Thank you.
Thank you.
Appreciate you, man.
It's frickin' crazy.
-Frickin' crazy.
-Show me something too!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
KRIS WEEMS: 4,000 blicks.
4,000 blickies, Steve.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
KERR: Curl pin.
Four thousand blickies, Steve.
-Speaking of a blicky!
-WEEMS: Bow, bow, bow!
-There's a blicky!
-Bow, bow, bow!
(CLOCK TICKING)
ROYE: And McDermott
will throw it in.
Fultz doesn't even attempt
the shot.
-(BUZZER)
-And that's it. Buzzer sounds.
Final score, 130-104.
The Warriors get the win
over Sacramento.
Stephen Curry gets to
the 4,000 three-point plateau
on the same night where
Steve Kerr gets win number 557.
-Congrats again, brother.
-Thank you, brother.
S---, every day is congrats.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
It's a special milestone.
Appreciate you, dawg.
LAFORCE: Well, Steph, I know
there was a lot of anticipation
the last couple days
leading up to this moment.
But what was it like when you
finally saw it go through?
It was a special moment,
obviously, to do it at home.
Uh, the--
The 2974 record in New York
was great,
because it was an unbelievable
environment at Madison Square,
but to do it in front
of my home fans,
and, uh, you know...
It was a weird game because
I didn't get many attempts up,
but to finally get it
in the third.
I felt the energy,
it was special.
Have you thought
about 5,000 yet?
-I'm in the moment.
-(LAUGHS)
I'm blessed to keep doing
this thing.
2974 felt like an eternity ago.
So to be now here with this
fresh milestone is pretty cool.
Who knows? I never limit God
or never limit the blessings
of my life, that--
I'm gonna stay in the present
right now.
Thanks for your time
and happy early birthday.
Thank you very much.
HARLAN: Big night
for Steph Curry.
History and the ball
in his grasp.
4,000 made threes.
VAN GUNDY: This guy's career
has been-- He changed the NBA.
He's really changed the NBA
and led to this
three-point revolution.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
MILLER: Stephen Curry
has taken shooting
and the art form of it
to a different level.
I have a nine-year-old
and I go to all these games.
The first thing they do
is start hoisting up threes
to try and be like their hero,
Stephen Curry.
KERR: You got teams shooting
50, 60, 70 threes.
Multiple players shooting
from five feet beyond the arc.
Whole generation of players,
young people,
are watching Steph
and emulating his every move.
But it's not just that he is
making these incredible shots.
It's the way he moves people.
He has an incredible ability
to connect with people...
because they see
his humanity, his kindness,
and his compassion
in this package
that happens to include
the greatest skill in basketball
that anyone has ever known.
That's pretty special,
and people recognize that
all the time about him.
STEPHEN: It's never just been
about numbers for me.
It's always just been
the thing I love to do.
You know, you hope to be able
to push the game forward,
leave something behind
that makes an impression.
So, to see I've had
a small hand in that,
it's a huge honor, and it's not
something I take lightly.
(FANS SHOUTING)
-Hold that for me.
-AYESHA: I will.
Hold that for me.
AYESHA: I will.
STEPHEN: I'm coming back
to take a shot in a minute.
AYESHA: Okay, Boo.
Hi!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
That's beautiful,
congratulations.
Hit it on the number, man.
It was a really cool milestone.
See how far we can push
this thing,
but it definitely is special.
REPORTER: Was there
a little anxiety
to try to get him that 4,000th,
and what was it like
when it happened?
You see that last turnover I had
in the second quarter?
A lot of anxiety.
Yeah!
GREEN: But it couldn't have
happened to a better person.
Just what he's done for the NBA
and the league as a whole.
Happy to be here to see it,
be a small part of it,
uh, but more importantly
just witness greatness
on a nightly basis.
TEAMMATE: Yes, sir.
(ALL SHOUTING)
(CHEERING, INDISTINCT SHOUTS)
TEAMMATE: Happy birthday!
Bow!
Bow-bow-bow-bow-bow!
(LAUGHTER, CHEERING)
That's cold as h---.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Whoo!
I don't need a cold tub now.
-Congrats, Steph.
-GREEN: Yes, sir.
STEPHEN: Appreciate y'all, man.
-Just us! One, two, three!
-ALL: Just us!
(APPLAUSE)
-KERR: Congratulations.
-You too. Thank you, Coach.
-KERR: Oh, yeah, yeah.
-Hold! Yo, did y'all know?
-Oh, no, no, no.
-Did y'all know?
Coach Kerr now has the most wins
in Warrior history.
(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)
Where's the game ball?
Where's the game ball?
Where's the game ball?
Go ahead. Go ahead.
I'm right here.
(ALL SHOUTING, CHEERING)
Congratulations.
(INAUDIBLE)
(INAUDIBLE)
REPORTER: Now that we've
reached 4,000,
if he can stay healthy,
how far can he take this?
8,000?
(LAUGHTER)
Yeah, who knows? Who knows?
-Curry.
-Ohh!
KERR: It just seems like it was
not too long ago
that he broke the record,
and he just keeps going the way
he, uh, keeps himself in shape
and conditioned, um, in rhythm,
he's gonna, you know...
He's going to make
another thousand for sure.
I mean, that's what I would
guess, but who knows?
BARTENDER: Hey, cheers, man,
cheers.
STEPHEN: Yes, cheers to 4,000.
I appreciate y'all.
(CHEERING)
-BAR PATRON: 4K.
-I know.
This is probably
the cleanest milestone.
I ain't going to be around
for five, but...
(LAUGHTER)
BAR PATRON: Don't say that, man.
Each one, yeah, each one
we're gonna enjoy... (CHUCKLES)
past this, see how far
I can push it,
but 4K sounds real nice.
So I appreciate you.
(CHEERING)
Thank you.
REPORTER 3: Big milestone
tonight.
I'm just curious,
do you celebrate at all?
Do you hit the golf course
tomorrow or anything like that?
STEPHEN: No, we got practice.
I'll enjoy some time
with the family,
come in, get our work in...
Played golf earlier in the week,
so that was
the birthday round and--
and then a nice little shot
of Gentlemen's Cut tonight.
That's about it.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
All right, I'll be back.
I gotta go lift.
REPORTER: Steve Kerr joked
that 8,000 is,
you know, not too far off...
I don't think he wants
to coach that long,
so don't put
that pressure on me.
-REPORTER: Okay. Thank you.
-'Cause I like a challenge.
REPORTER 2: Tonight, Steve ties
the franchise record for...
HIRWAY: If the only reason
why people were driven to create
was because
of some specific goal...
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
...it kind of ignores
the whole point
of where this thing
comes from.
That instinct and that drive to
make something never goes away.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
PAUL MCCARTNEY: I look
at my whole career,
and luckily I've done a lot.
But I still want to outdo
"Yesterday" myself, certainly.
I'm still looking
to write my best song.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
CHUCK D: The art journey
never ends.
There is no retirement.
As long as you have a heartbeat,
the beat goes on
because it keeps beating.
STEPHEN: You hit these
milestones along the way.
You know, you take time
to appreciate the moment...
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
...and then it's right back
to work.
You know,
there's something in me
that keeps pushing forward.
You don't do it
for the big moments.
It's always just
the love of the craft,
love of the game.
But truthfully...
5,000 sounds pretty nice,
too.
(NET SWISHES)