SAN FRANCISCO – Sitting in a chair at his Warriors locker, Seth Curry began carefully folding and placing two jerseys on the ground in front of him.
To his left was his No. 31 home white Warriors jersey. To his right was a No. 30 home white Warriors jersey with the two touching each other and their respective Curry nameplates displayed.
At least a half hour, and maybe more, had passed since the final buzzer of the Warriors’ 117-116 loss to the Houston Rockets at Chase Center. The score already had become an afterthought. The night and that moment of watching Seth snap a picture of the two jerseys was a time capsule of unthinkable achievement for one of basketball’s greatest families.
Finally, a season marred by far too many injuries and obstacles became history. Steph Curry on Sunday night played his first game since Jan. 30 after missing 27 straight to runner’s knee, and in his return, he and younger brother Seth shared an NBA court for the first time together as Warriors teammates.
“That was a dream come true, to be honest,” Steph said. “Hadn’t really sunk in yet. Except when I came out the locker room just now, Seth is very serious about taking this jersey I have on me. I know he’ll take good care of it, for sure.”
Here’s Seth Curry’s Instagram story of his and Steph’s jerseys from tonight’s game of them playing together for the first time since high school pic.twitter.com/DXtc3gDHHL
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The debut of the Curry Brothers playing together on the Warriors is a scenario that has been discussed for years on end. Getting it done took longer than anyone expected, in the grand scheme of things and in this season because of all the bumps that have gotten in their way.
As much as Seth thought about what it would be like playing with Steph, he already had his postgame plans figured out and knows exactly what he’s doing with the two Curry Warriors jerseys.
“That’s going in the man cave at home,” Seth said. “Got my hands on that right away. Putting it in one frame, I’ll have that forever. I thought about that before. I went in there and asked E [Warriors VP of Team Operations Eric Housen] this morning. I said, ‘As soon as the game’s over, I’m gonna get my hands on those.’”
Steph in his first game in 65 days scored 29 points in just 26 minutes. Seth played 13 minutes and scored six points. It was the younger Curry who actually stepped foot on the court first.
More than 14 years had gone by since Steph last came off the bench in a regular-season game. He and Rick Celebrini came up with a plan of having him not start so that he could play the final six minutes of each quarter. The plan mapped out him playing 24 minutes, but the nail-biting end to the game called for a little more. At the 6:19 mark of the second quarter, coming out of a Rockets timeout from a 9-0 Warriors run, the Curry Brothers strode by each other and shared the same backcourt.
They’re most happy that their mother Sonya was able to be there, fully in her element.
“To have that moment coming out of a timeout talking about our matchups, I was having flashbacks to Charlotte Christian High School my senior year, his sophomore year,” Steph said. “That was the last time in an actual game, even though he was on our training camp roster in 2013, but that was the last time we actually played a game together. My mom was in the stands, she probably didn’t have any more memory on her phone with all the pictures and videos.”
Seth echoed Steph’s sentiments: “Dream come true, dream come true,” he said. “Played against each other for a while now. For us to be on the same floor together as teammates was a different dynamic. I’m sure everybody was watching on the East Coast, stayed up late watching on the East Coast. She was over there sneaking pictures when we were both in the hall trying to get loose. She was really excited.”
Sunday was just the 40th game Steph has played this season after averaging 65 the past five seasons. And it was only the seventh that Seth has played.
The Warriors signed Seth knowing that he’d be waived at the end of training camp and signed again soon after for financial and roster construction reasons. He inked his new deal on Dec. 1 and then dropped 14 points off the bench the next day against the reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder in a game Steph wasn’t healthy for. Seth played 14 minutes in reserve the next game, but then missed the next three months because of a sciatic nerve irritation issue.
All the missed games between the two of them prompted Steph to sarcastically nickname him and Seth the Rehab Brothers. He knows how to use humor as a tool of armor. Deep down, being sidelined drove him mad for a countless number of reasons, including missing out on playing with his brother, whose season has been frustrating for his own reasons too.
Despite Steph’s 30-footer at the buzzer bouncing out and the Warriors losing by one, the wait was worth it. Hours, days, weeks and months of rehab was worth it. Decades in the making for three total minutes culminating in a Curry dream, from their father Dell down to Steph and then Seth, never following in each other’s footsteps but being inspired to push the path forward in their own journeys.
“Basketball has been a part of our whole lives and it’s what we love to do,” Steph said. “The fact that at this stage of both our careers that we’ve had this opportunity, even though this is Game 77 and it’s the first time actually playing together, you definitely take a moment to reflect, for sure. When it is all said and done down the road, I’m sure we’ll put the pictures up and talk about it.”
More than 40 brothers have played together on the same team in NBA history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, but none on the Warriors. Until Sunday.
Across the country, Dell’s Charlotte Hornets had wrapped up beating the Minnesota Timberwolves in time for him to catch his two boys representing the same team after 20 games against each other in the past – 16 in the regular season and four in the playoffs. In San Francisco, Sonya perfectly played her role as basketball mom. Chase Center became the backyard again, with every memory imaginable flooding their heads.
Moments can be lost in an 82-game season, especially in the social media age. This should not be one of those instances. The Curry Brothers’ dream come true of sharing the court as Warriors is pure basketball bliss.
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