Steph Curry on Chris Paul, Offseason Workouts, Going For His 5th Ring | NBA Media Day 2023

Here with Chef Curry himself. Steph, let's get right to it. This summer, watching your workout videos, I'm still amazed on how focused you are and how determined to be one of the best in our game today. Take me through your workouts this summer. I mean every year, it's another opportunity to kind of reinvest into what you know kind of makes you great and you know, there's always just a pressure of kind of reasserting like who you are every single year and redefining what that is and especially you get deeper into your career and the work gets harder and harder, but it gets more rewarding because you're trying to extend your prime for as long as you can. You're trying to compete at the highest level like all the things we know are important, but you know, I just try to have fun with it too because as you know, like double digit years you get up there, you know every summer becomes a little harder to kind of to to manage just with the miles you put on your body and all that type of stuff. So I'm just trying to balance all of that still have fun with it still push myself to be ready for another year when you're preparing for this year, your phone starts going off. Phoenix is doing this. LA is doing this. This team is doing that what goes through your mind that the West is getting deeper and deeper. I mean, I think if you look back from the time we first, you know started competing for championships with 2014-15 like the the moves become louder. I think just from our perspective because we understand how many teams are trying to position themselves to be in that conversation. We want to be in that conversation every year. We feel like we are, but we also know we're built around a core that has been doing this for a very long time and so we're not going to have too many big splashes, but we feel like our team is in a really good spot and that's the way the league goes right. Everybody's trying to get better whatever that means for themselves and you know some teams are taking big swings and big chances and big names are moving, but the West is deep. The reigning champs are in the West, so you have to go through through Denver and every team's trying to chase so you know we're in that group. You mentioned your core you play Draymond. How happy were you to see clay finally have a clean workout summer and that Kind of prepare coming off an injury. I think it's big for him. He's you know a lot was said and covered around his comeback 2 years ago. Obviously to help us win the championship that year last year. you know he got off to a slower start at you know compared to his terms and his expectations and I think to your point he he spoke it into existence of how he wanted to approach the summer and the offseason to get. You know put himself in the best position to hit the ground running come come training camp, so we got GP. It's good to have him back at the beginning of the year and not halfway through the year, but Clay you know in terms of everything that he puts into the game the work ethic that he's developed over the course of his career for him to be able to do that and not worry about his body. That's a big deal. You know he went through a lot two straight years two plus, so I'm excited for him and again. It's all of our challenge to try to continue to evolve as we get you know through our careers to you know adapt to what it means for us to be a successful team this year and I know he's about that. I know this team will buy into the team concept. I think the biggest question the basketball world wants to know last 5 minutes of the game. How do you figure out the final lineup for Chris Paul being on the team? It's a good question just because it's something nobody's seen in terms of you know what he provides for you know offensively and defensively his IQ the way that he can kind of manipulate games just with his decision making so we have options and I know that's not the answer people want to hear in terms of what it's going to look like because I don't even know right, but it's the ability for us to say. Okay. We all know how to play basketball. We know. You know we all have a competitive kind of streak and we understand like everybody wants to be out there. Everybody wants to be in that closing line of and that's that's how it should be only five guys can play at a time as the rule of the game and if we are going to be good if we're going to do anything great this year if we're going to be a team that we want to be we'll all buy into it no matter what you ask to do and I'm going to try to live you know Levi example on that front. I know CP will but to kind of rush past the you know training camp process and the feeling our process and what that actually looks like that would do us a disservice too because it'll it'll illuminate what that looks like how much is Important for you to get number five the fifth ring. It's everything man like you know I've been blessed in the game to win and I've had a lot of amazing experiences, but it's the reason why you train as hard as you do in the off season. It's the reason you have the belief coming into the season because nobody just wants to coast through the end of your career and and just play meaningless games like that's that's no fun at all. I'm not worried about the legacy Piece of it. It's just more. I understand how much yeah, that's how much how much you're the best point guard or managing the best point guard. That's on social media, right? That's all for social media and clicks and the the never ending debates that you can never prove but to your point like just this is like we want to be in a position and I want to be in a position where you're playing games that matter and you're winning and you're playing and trying to chase championships for as long as you can because you know it's going to be over at some point. So that's why five is important. It's not for anything else for the resume. It's like playing basketball to win and that championship is about that. Love you brother. Appreciate you too, man. Appreciate it. Yes, sir.