Watch Steph, Kerr relive emotional Paris Olympics gold medal win

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Watch Steph, Kerr relive emotional Paris Olympics gold medal win originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Team USA’s gold medal win at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and specifically Steph Curry’s Herculean effort in the game’s final minutes, will go down as one of the greatest moments in basketball history.

And with the release of Netflix’s new “Court of Gold” docuseries, fans received a behind-the-scenes look at the emotional final minutes of the gold medal game against Team France.

Curry finished the game with 22 points, one rebound and five assists on 8-of-13 shooting from the field and 8 of 12 from 3-point range, and helped will Team USA to victory with an end-of-game flurry that will live in infamy.

The docuseries highlighted one play in particular that Curry himself called for and, unsurprisingly, resulted in a huge 3-pointer with a few minutes remaining in the game.

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“Steph said ‘Give me the ball, I know where I want it. They can’t guard that.’”

Steph Curry and Steve Kerr on how Steph’s Gold Medal Game flurry came about 🔥

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Kerr: “With a few minutes left, we were discussing what we were going to run, and so Steph came over and [tugs his ear]. We call the play ‘Ear tug,’ it’s just a cleared-side pick-and-roll with Steph and LeBron [James]. Steph just basically said, ‘Give me the ball and I know where I want it, they can’t guard that.’ “

Curry: “Ear tug, for me, was a play that could kind of just get us organized and calm the momentum down … LeBron had the ball, and I wanted him to get downhill. When I set the screen and came off, he threw that behind-the-back pass and the ball was in my hands before I could even think about what was happening.

“I did like the little ‘Calm down’ celebration, I was really kind of talking to myself, because you understand these four minutes will define our Team USA Olympic…

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Publish date : 2025-02-18 09:15:00

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