NBA All-Star Game: How Charlotte shaped Warriors’ Stephen Curry

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It didn’t take long for Warriors assistant coach Bruce Fraser to understand the depths of Stephen Curry’s Charlotte, N.C., roots.

In November 2014, six months after he joined Golden State’s staff, Fraser was working Curry through his pregame shooting routine at Charlotte’s Spectrum Center when a larger-than-normal crowd gathered around the court. During a pause between drills, Curry saw his childhood dentist and exclaimed, “Hey, Dr. Johnson!”

“I could feel the closeness Steph has to that community just through that warmup,” Fraser said. “He was engaged with them as much as he could be. They were proud of him, and he was equally as proud to be associated with that city.