{"id":545704,"date":"2026-01-19T00:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545704\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T00:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:42:24","slug":"steph-curry-flattered-by-collin-sextons-aggressive-defense-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545704\/","title":{"rendered":"Steph Curry flattered by Collin Sexton\u2019s aggressive defense \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guarding Steph Curry is an undertaking very few in the NBA are prepared for. <\/p>\n<p>Hornets guard Collin Sexton was ready for the challenge in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/draymond-green-deanthony-melton-hornets\/1908306\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/draymond-green-deanthony-melton-hornets\/1908306\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warriors&#8217; 136-116 win over Charlotte<\/a> on Saturday at Chase Center, and he did his best not to leave Curry&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>Quite literally. <\/p>\n<p>With 8:20 remaining in the second quarter and the Warriors leading 47-39, Sexton, with his arm around Curry, followed the Warriors superstar stride-for-stride across the court. When Curry, who noticed Sexton hovering, kept walking past Charlotte&#8217;s bench and toward the locker room, Sexton hilariously followed him off the court.<\/p>\n<p>All Sexton is doing is what every coach probably preaches to their players when matched up against Curry: Wherever he goes, you go. And you don&#8217;t leave his side. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, Sexton didn&#8217;t do anything wrong, he was just being overly aggressive in sticking by Curry&#8217;s side, but when asked about the viral moment after the game, Curry couldn&#8217;t help but feel flattered at the attention paid to him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s a part of you that fights it just because it&#8217;s not real basketball,\u201d Curry said. \u201cBut there\u2019s also a part of it that&#8217;s flattering &#8230; knowing that you demand that much attention and what it does to create shots for other guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether it was Sexton and Charlotte&#8217;s defense or just a poor shooting night, Curry was held at bay with 14 points, three rebounds and five assists on 6-of-12 shooting from the field and 2 of 8 from 3-point range in 29 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully future opponents don&#8217;t take Sexton&#8217;s antics further and follow Curry out of the building. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dubs-talk-a-golden-state-warriors-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the Dubs Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guarding Steph Curry is an undertaking very few in the NBA are prepared for. Hornets guard Collin Sexton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,479,164,4025,4024,6,932,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-545704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-golden-state","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-goldenstate","12":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-steph-curry","15":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115918992029846179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}