Steph Curry found childlike joy at the Paris Olympics
The Golden State Warriors superstar won gold at the 2024 Paris summer Olympics
This past month, Steph Curry and the USA Men’s Basketball Team won gold at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, beating out France and Serbia to take home the USA’s fifth consecutive gold medal in men’s basketball. Curry says the experience was one of childlike joy.
Steph Curry hit 22 three-pointers at Paris 2024. Here is EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. THEM! #Paris2024 @Paris2024 @TeamUSA @USABasketball @StephenCurry30 pic.twitter.com/swE8Sa2ZC9
— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) August 22, 2024
“You’re fully there,” Curry told Marcus Thompson II, a columnist for The Athletic. “The sacrifice of what my family went through to allow me to be fully there. It just gave me the ability to play basketball and try to have as much fun as possible. It was one of those pure moments that will stand out when you look back on your life and the experiences you had.
Curry led the USA Men’s Basketball Team in three-pointers, obviously, with 22 made throughout the entire tournament. With this stat, Curry joins Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony in being the only American men’s basketball players to score 20+ threes in a single Olympic run. In addition, he averaged 14.8 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game in 23.3 minutes played per game — not bad for a 36-year-old superstar.
“It was the most surreal feeling, especially the way it ended,” Curry said, according to NBC Sports Bay Area. “I felt like a kid again. A 12-out-of-10 experience.”