Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James recently shared his thoughts on Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry and his Olympic debut.
Basketball fans eagerly anticipate the Olympics for a special reason: the chance to see NBA stars team up, often for the first time. Such was the case for LeBron James and Stephen Curry, who after years of intense rivalry, finally played together in Paris—potentially for the only time.
While LeBron had already competed in four Olympic Games, this was Curry’s first experience on the global stage. In an interview with Golic and Golic, James discussed Curry’s Olympic debut and his growth throughout the tournament.
“I talked to him a lot about that, and him being in his first Olympic Games,” James said. “He had played in the World Championships before, but being part of the Olympic Games for the first time, it was new to him. But you could see that every single day, every single moment, he was locked in.”
James added, “I knew the onslaught was coming. I knew the barrage and the avalanche was going to happen at some point. And we saw that in the semi-finals against Serbia and, of course, in the finals against France, the host team.”