The Warriors won another NBA championship, and everyone was reminded of an easy rule: Never doubt Stephen Curry, the greatest shooter of all time.
Curry, who was also crowned NBA Finals MVP for the first time in his career, was emotional after taking home another title. The victory put him in a pantheon of greatness, like Tim Duncan, and he silenced those who doubted him along the way.
Two of those doubters included ESPN’s Kendrick Perkins and Dominique Foxworth. When the Warriors signed Curry to a four-year contract extension in Aug. 2021, Perkins and Foxworth boldly predicted Golden State would not win another title.
(You can watch it for yourself here, but just know it aged like milk.)
Oh my god pic.twitter.com/7n2FtNsdoT
— Denver📈 (@doubledworth) June 17, 2022
Perkins and Foxworth both gestured a “zero” around their eye, which even looked not-so-great at the time considering Curry’s history. But it looks far worse in retrospect, especially after Curry mocked the move after the victory on Thursday night.
Here is what Curry had to say about how Perkins looks now:
“[I] clearly remember some experts and talking heads putting up the big zero of how many championships we would have going forward because of everything that we went through. So we hear all that, and you carry it all and you try to maintain your purpose, not let it distract you, but you carry that weight and to get here, it all comes out. It’s special.”
You can watch the full clip of Curry describing that motivation:
Steph hears and remembers everything pic.twitter.com/mb5dLn8qO1
— Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) June 17, 2022
Perkins, who also predicted Curry would do “absolutely nothing” in Game 6 at TD Garden against the Celtics, has a lot of backpedaling to do.
The longtime NBA veteran also claimed that Curry would surpass Magic Johnson if he won an NBA Finals MVP, and now that the Golden State star has done exactly that, I’m getting whiplash keeping track of the stuff he has said.
But if it’s hard for me to follow Perkinks’ logic, it must be even harder for Curry. All I know is that, once more, Curry is a champion and the contract extension was a wise investment.
