{"id":665213,"date":"2026-03-18T17:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/665213\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:10:15","slug":"stephen-curry-on-leaving-the-n-b-a-and-retiring-his-dads-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/665213\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Curry on Leaving the N.B.A. and Retiring His Dad\u2019s Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cWhen you decide to hang it up, right, what are the things you will consider? What will be the determination?\u201d \u201cI think your body is the first. What it takes to get ready for a game is a lot different now than it was a decade ago. When I\u2019m out there on the court right now, I still get lost in the fun. It\u2019s still my happy place. All the work is worth it because I get to go out there and hoop at the highest level. The competition, the camaraderie, the chasing something that matters, like, that still gets me going. I don\u2019t see that stopping anytime soon.\u201d \u201cSixteen years went by so fast. So my rule is you play as long as you can, then play one more year.\u201d \u201cNow, you\u2019re in year 17. What did you learn these foundational lessons about, maybe work ethic or training?\u201d \u201cSomething he taught me and my brother and my sister, like, nobody can want it for you. You can get good coaching, guidance, support, whatever, but you have to want it for yourself. Not really knowing what they were doing, but like, Oh, this is important. This matters.\u201d \u201cAnother thing I think is big, is I\u2019d tell them beforehand, Hey, I\u2019m bringing my boys to practice tomorrow, talk to them, hang out with them. And on every team, Muggsy, Lonzo, Hersey, Larry Johnson \u2014 when I was with Milwaukee, Ray Allen, Vince in Toronto, everywhere I went, my teammates liked the fact that I bring my boys.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re getting paid to play the game at the highest level in the N.B.A., all the glamour of the N.B.A. life, but seeing it behind the scenes was important for me to kind of understand what it took to play at the highest level and how you have to keep doubling down on that every year, no matter how great you are.\u201d \u201cWhat was your favorite Dell Curry moment in the N.B.A.?\u201d \u201cWas it \u201893, when y\u2019all played Boston in the first round, and you threw the inbound pass to Alonzo for the buzzer beater?\u201d \u201cMm-hmm, yes.\u201d \u201cAnd he was the inbound man and the first on the dogpile after Zo hit the buzzer beater.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s when Joe\u2019s on the ground. He\u2019s got hands in the air.\u201d \u201cAnd then you see Pops come through. The funniest one still is when they did the playoff team bonding thing, when they decided to all shave their heads. But he didn\u2019t tell anybody. So he went to practice one day looking a certain way and then came back, and he scared the crap out of my sister.\u201d \u201cWhat was it like to watch the moment when your dad learned his jersey was getting retired?\u201d \u201cWhen I got word of it, maybe a week or two before, it was hard \u2014 the hardest secret to keep, but it still didn\u2019t prepare you for the moment when you saw the raw emotions come out. And it would be even better once we all see it go up on March 19.\u201d \u201cYou asked why we call him the second was because I\u2019m the first, so I got to flex on that.\u201d \u201cHis nickname is the Originator. That\u2019s what we call him.\u201d \u201cGot a shirt. I\u2019ll get you one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen you decide to hang it up, right, what are the things you will consider? 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