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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Stephen Curry (July 2023)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Willie sat down with one of the greatest athletes of all time, Stephen Curry. He is out with a new documentary, "Underrated", that charts his rise from skinny college kid to basketball legend who has revolutionized the game. (Original broadcast date July 30, 2023)

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:09.8

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

0:13.0

Gonna revisit a favorite conversation from the summer of

0:17.3

2023 with a true sports icon, Steph Curry, the greatest shooter who ever lived, guard for the Golden State Warriors.

0:26.0

Yes, he recently was eliminated with his teammates from the playoffs, home for the summer,

0:31.0

which gives him now a lot of time to fine tune that golf game.

0:35.0

When he and I got together last summer he had just won a celebrity golf

0:40.0

tournament in Tahoe, the American Century Classic, with an incredible dramatic putt.

0:46.6

If you haven't seen it, you can go check it out on YouTube.

0:49.2

He is, well, not as good a golfer as he is a basketball player but the distance between those two is getting smaller by the day

0:56.0

He is an incredible golfer you can imagine a man who's that committed to being great at something is going to do it in other ways as well

1:02.4

We had a great

1:03.4

conversation around the release last summer of a documentary called Underrated

1:09.3

about Steph Curry a late bloomer, to put it mildly.

1:14.2

A skinny little kid wasn't recruited by many schools out of high school,

1:17.9

ended up at Davidson College, which is just up the road from Charlotte

1:22.3

where he grew up.

1:23.1

His dad was a player, Del Curry, a great shooter himself for the Charlotte Hornets.

1:27.3

So Steph and his family grew up in Charlotte, went to Davidson and then went on that magical run that year in the NCAA

1:36.3

tournament to the elite eight firmly put on the radar of basketball evaluators and experts and was drafted into the NBA by the

1:45.4

warriors and the rest is history we do talk a little bit now about what his future

1:49.8

looks like how much longer does he want to play with this season now in the books maybe the team

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