DOUBTED - Stephen Curry (Motivational Mini-Movie)

[Music] [Music] stefan curry 6'3 185 pounds position point guard [Music] stefan's explosiveness and athleticism are below standard he's not a great finisher around the basket he needs to considerably improve as a ball handler often struggles against physical defenders stefan must develop as a point guard in order to make it in league [Music] he will have limited success at the next level do not rely on him to run your team my ex is stephanie where you gonna be when you grow up a basketball player boy that's gonna take a lot of hard work and practice you gotta study hard too yeah i know we gotta get you the right kind of ball all right hey dad yeah how'd you get to be so big i guess i just grew that way what's it take to be a great basketball player like you well you really gotta want it you gotta taste it you gotta be able to smell it i mean you really gotta be hungry for it yeah give it to the burger king i am really hungry joining us in the kitchen today on behalf of degree do more is steph curry you know the golden state star bomani jones loved this guy in college let's get to know the all-star a little bit better tell us give us some of the details of the last time you were carded uh last time i was car fired a week ago uh buying a drink well you have a goatee now they gotta just be messing with you when they called you right i don't even know if this counts down but is there has there ever been a time where you've been just a little bit embarrassed by it because i remember we've talked about you being carted at a movie theater which is fairly ridiculous steph it wasn't that long ago and movie theater what is it 17 years old yes that's that was the one that hurt i guess i went with the baby face clean shaving and all that and and uh didn't go my way you know just trying to buy a ticket to go see a movie but uh that was probably the most embarrassing when i didn't even know where my id was at that point because i wasn't expecting it if i asked you to go back to the time in your life for your career when you doubted the most or you had the least confidence what would you point to what is the time in your life you'd point to and say i was least confident then uh the beginning of my senior year in high school i hadn't gotten really many scholarship offers and i grew up in charlotte so i'm right there in acc you know country and and really no teams were coming and at that point um i got a little down because you know you all you see guys that you you play against all the time you know signing letters of letters to go to your major d1 schools and all that and and i was still kind of you know in the whole recruiting process and just had to to let it unfold and know i would end up where i was supposed to and and hopefully get a chance to play some d1 basketball and make it happen well was it particularly frustrating that virginia tech your father's alma mater did not offer you a scholarship yeah cause they were the one the first ones to call um and then nothing ever happened and you kind of added an insult to injury telling you know i can you can come on and red shirt and and uh you know pay your own way to school your first year in red shirt and we'll see what we can do your second year so it's kind of like we like you but don't really believe you know that much in you uh to you know offer you a full scholarship now so we'll play that wait and see game is that the rejection that hurt the most vatek would you like to tell them to eat it right now on television feel free [Laughter] no that definitely hurt the most like you said it was my dad's alma mater it was a school that i wanted to go to growing up you know obviously to follow my pops footsteps but um and the fact that they called so early in the recruiting process i was you know like a giddy kid like yeah this is all gonna happen but uh you know god had different plans for me but say it steph go ahead and say it go ahead and just say i mean you did kind of but just say it eat it vodka seth greenberg he knows i've had plenty of conversations with him so he knows oh seth works here now we can't do that today's a big ticket day everybody's still offering me tickets jeff needed about 45-50 tickets and i'll probably still get a call before i get to the arena maybe even before the game starts here comes another call for tickets right okay hello it's december in charlotte north carolina dale curry a tv analyst for the bobcats is on his way to work it's a short trip that represents a long journey it's a father's dream to watch your son compete and do the things that you did and he's better than you are there's no doubt about it i can still shoot a little bit but he's way better than i ever was he is the golden state warriors all-star guard dell's oldest son 26 year old stephen curry still surreal to me for real i mean to come and play against him and see him on the sidelines and i know he's commentating on me now um trying to stay as neutral as possible probably but um you know it's still surreal for me for sure surreal because the nba's best shooter was once a long shot i think anyone could envision what he's done on the basketball court we knew he had the work ethic and the drive and the dedication and the want but you just don't know how things are going to work out [Music] march 14 1988 wardell stephen curry ii was born that summer his father a six foot four shooting guard joined the charlotte hornets curry pulls up knocks down the train he would make over 1200 threes in 16 seasons earning a reputation as one of the best shooters in the game it's good that my teammates they know when i'm in the zone they're gonna do everything they can to get me the ball i remember just on school nights i wish that i could go to the game my mom would say no you can't go to the game on school nights because we're not going to get home until 11 or 12. so when they had friday or saturday at games that was like the biggest deal for us because we knew we were going to the game that night how much time did dale spend teaching him the game not very much at all because we wanted to just let it come naturally yeah i was a competitive guy i loved all the sports that i played but there's something about basketball and kind of doing what your dad did that had a little more of a draw to it he didn't have to follow his dad's footsteps he could do anything he wanted to do try anything he wanted to do but as long as he gave it 100 when i was in eighth grade i made a decision to spend all year round on it and do what it took that was necessary to play in college welcome to another edition of off the hardwood i'm your host paul jones and today we sit down with the curry clan all of them we're all here now i got to ask the guys uh stefan and seth uh do you play baseball at all knowing that your dad used to play with the with the glove in the ball how much do you guys play baseball we played baseball a lot when we were in charlotte played for about four or five years and never got into pitching but played everything else and i liked it but i was more interested in basketball at the time so um it was more my sport kind of um i had more um i was kind of better at it it's basketball and i wanted to um practice some more on it and um try to make it to the pros if i had [Music] but as a high school sophomore stefan stood just five foot six and weighed 125 pounds lacking strength he still shot the ball from his waist told us if you want to play in the college you're going to have to bring it up and get it up above your head over your forehead so we worked at it all summer it was that was a tough summer for him it was tough for me to watch them in the backyard at late nights a lot of hours during the day working on his shot cause i mean they broke it down to a point where he couldn't even shoot at all he'll be back there at times crying not wanting to work on his game he had to do a rap after rep after rep to a point where he was able to master it with his remastered shot stefan averaged just under 20 points a game his junior season of high school growing up in tar hill country and you want to play for you know do gangster state carolina and wake forest and i wanted to play on that level i don't ever remember even seeing him i do know that when i did see him i thought man he is little the only major program to recruit stefan was his father's alma mater virginia tech and even they said he would have to walk on i don't think he's ever said it before but i mean you could tell that that hurt him a little bit how did you handle the disappointment of those bigger schools not coming after you um i used it as motivation that summer before my senior year in high school to just just play my game and you know the right coach and the right college would come and make themselves known that they wanted me that college was davidson a small liberal arts school 20 minutes north of home [Music] the big time schools didn't recruit him because of his uh his appearance i think his size his stature people just saw him as a low major mid-major guard that uh they were a dime a dozen what did you see in him i i saw brilliance just the way he talked and the confidence that he expressed and how you know i could impact you know that team right away you know if i allowed him to to let him coach me that good things would happen his first game as a college player he started against eastern michigan up in ann arbor and and in the first half he had nine turnovers we're down 18 points at halftime i'm rethinking whether he belongs to being a starting lineup put him in a starting lineup in the second half we won the game next night against michigan he dropped 32. but the best was yet to come for stefan who had grown to six foot three by his sophomore season [Applause] march 21st 2008 curry 3 yes the ncaa tournament with his parents in the stands stefan scored 40 against gonzaga two days later he dropped 30 on georgetown curry driving on wallace a high three got it i don't even have the words to kind of describe that whole experience i mean we just sat there and just scratched our head we come home and we'd say fell not just like can you believe that and we'd almost ride home in silence because it was just like what is he going to show us next time to curry left-hand corner let's grab it off go buy it the star of the tournament whose legend continues to grow stefan curry he averaged 32 points a game in davidson's cinderella run to the elite eight in a span of 10 days stephen curry had become a household name we changed from being dell's son to dale being his father a couple days later the bobcats had a game and we got tickets i told him i said i'm gonna bring steph to the game and the security guy calls me goes do you need security i'm gonna nah you don't need security what do you mean he comes to the games all the time he said okay so we get to the game mob is like a rock star i'm like oh we need some security here so that's what i knew okay things have changed in his junior season there was more of the same he led the nation in scoring averaging almost 29 points a game then declared for the 2009 nba draft i kind of heard the same stuff outside going into the nba up too small not athletic enough can't play defense not strong enough [Applause] i was nervous obviously making that transition is a big deal with the seventh pick in the 2009 nba draft the golden state warriors select stephen curry from davidson college the 6th street junior guard out of davidson quite simply is the best shooter in the draft he's gonna have to improve his decision-making a little bit with the ball in his hands and his shot selection has got to get a little bit better he's got really deep range it goes beyond nba and here is curry hitting another three in 2010 stefan finished second in the rookie of the year voting but in the next two seasons chronic right ankle problems would force him to miss 48 games and undergo two surgeries curry is hurt same angle he went straight down and never moved oh man every question i got was you know how are your ankles you know are you going to be like pseudo grant hill story or where you have an injury that kind of holds you back from reaching your full potential he's always injured the rumors are it's really tough so it was good that he could be here with our family to keep that encouragement while he was very happy but again he's a very competitive determined kid he wouldn't let it stop him [Music] regular people do regular things come on man you're not regular you're not regular come on i wanna fly can you take me far away give me a start and reach for tell [Music] so me my feet won't touch the ground they stitch my wings and pull the strings about these strings [Music] bingo got marion off his feet and scores [Applause] sweet [Applause] are you kidding me [Music] hurry for the lead oh curry turn the around and hit the chopper [Music] again and it's the largest lead of the game i wanna fight can you take me far away give me a start and reach for tell me [Music] curry steps back oh steffen perry wins some magic hurries he lost him and hit a three have a timeout decide not to use it curry way downtown bang bang oh what a shot from curry five six step three [Music] 62. doesn't matter where you come from what you have or don't have what you lack what you have too much of but all you need to have is faith in god an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful and whatever you put your mind to make sure you live in the moment and work your butt off every single day and i hope i inspire people all around the world to just be themselves be humble and be grateful for all the blessings in your life and i'm truly honored to be your mvp this year thank you very much

Channel: Nefariously

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Id: Op2m1mSleBs

Length: 20min 10sec (1210 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 12 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/lastinglovehandles]

Look at Curry so inspirational

[u/sf_warriors]

I have never seen in my life a sportsman as electrifying as entertaining as Curry - he is special

[u/avoiddumbpeople]

Thanks for sharing. Time for another 'We Believe' (in the old guys and the new young guys) in Bay area sports.