LeBron James and Steph Curry had by no means performed collectively on Team USA prior to this summer season, however that drought ended when James gave Curry a name within the fall.
“He was the first person I talked to,” Curry stated in current days, according to ESPN. “‘Would this be something I would want to do?’ And from there it was like, ‘Let’s get it.’”
Curry performed for Team USA on the FIBA World Cup in 2010 and 2014, however has by no means been to the Olympics.
“I’ve performed with Team USA earlier than on the world championship stage, however I don’t know what to anticipate when it comes to this problem and this expertise. And so I had the first-practice jitters.
“… Add the surrealness of who is on this team and all the battles that we’ve had over the course of our careers and the fact that we get to put that energy together as teammates. So I’m enjoying every minute of this.”
Curry added that he had the utmost respect for James regardless of having intense battles with him within the Finals over time.
“It was like a healthy resentment of somebody that’s standing in your way,” Curry stated of his playoff battles in opposition to James. “But through it all, there’s obviously the utmost respect for who he is as a person and player and like how good he is and the challenge of trying to beat him and trying to solve that problem every year.”
The two rivals-turned-teammates didn’t take lengthy to create a memorable second on the courtroom when Team USA performed Canada of their first Olympic warmup recreation on Wednesday, with Curry feeding James for an emphatic alley-oop.
Team USA will return to the courtroom after they face Australia in Abu Dhabi on July 15.
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