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If you’re a guard with the Golden State Warriors during the Stephen Curry era, you better know how to make a big splash. That means both knocking down pure jumpers from way downtown, and also making winning plays that get the fanbase behind you and wins up on the schedule. You make enough splashes and you start making waves.
At GSW media day, fourth year guard Brandin Podziemski walked up to the podium on Monday and the first thing anybody noticed was the waves in his hair. We’re talking fresh waves brushed in and laid down, the kind of look that leads me to believe he’s a young man who spent the offseason with a durag, a soft brush, and a whole lot of patience.
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Then he started talking, and the second thing I realized was how differently he was approaching his words than last year.
If you’ve followed this young fella for any amount of time, you know that’s a different Podz at the mic. I think he knows exactly why, going back to last October. Podz sat down with The Athletic’s Nick Friedell and laid out, with zero hesitation, where he saw himself in the Warriors’ family tree: “When they leave this thing, they got to leave it with somebody,” he said. “How can I have their trust? And they can go to [owner] Joe [Lacob] and [general manager] Mike [Dunleavy] and be like, ‘Hey, we want to leave it with him. He’s going to continue what we’re leaving.'”
He kept going. “So, I think about that all time, and I set myself up in that position to have that. And there’s a lot of other things than just skill that you need to be in that position.”
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Unfortunately, the internet heard a third-year guard publicly measuring the drapes in a house where Steph Curry and Draymond Green still pay the mortgage. And that very same internet responded the way the internet responds to everything, which is loudly and without nuance. They booed this man at a baseball game!!
By March, Podz was walking it back a little, though only a little. In an NBC Sports Bay Area article by Nick Avila entitled “Warriors’ Brandin Podziemski explains viral comments were taken out of context” he said:
I think I could have worded them a little…
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Publish date : 2026-09-29 05:09:00
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