‘You need a little fear of what’s coming’

“With experience, of course, there is a level of confidence that has been built and continues to elaborate on the last 10 years,” Curry said of his relationship with Kerr. “I think we’ve had more conversations this year and probably last year than we’ve ever had in the season.

“We are being challenged in new ways, certainly. And I think it’s brought a little more out of this need for communication. … He broke a clipboard last night. I’ve been waiting for it, ‘Because I need it, I like to see that fire … But it’s become harder and you have to accept it.’

After his employment in 2014, Kerr was open about the fact that he took the job pretty much because he wanted to train Curry. More than a decade later, he still coaches this team because of what they have achieved together and because Curry doesn’t want anyone else in this place.

“It means everything to me – my relationship with Steph is one of the best parts of this job,” Kerr said. “I don’t think we ever had to discuss things like this in the past, so because we didn’t need it, we were not kind of putting our heads together very often. Still had a good relationship, but we didn’t have to get into things like this.

“It has changed this year in that regard – last couple of years, probably. We share a common goal and that is to end this thing really well, both for Steph and for the organization. “

Many people have been huge parts of this – from Lacob and Guber to Jerry West to Myers to Mike Dunleavy Jr. to Daymond, Klay, others Iguodala, Durant and of course Kerr.

Curry hops when I asked if there was a recognized member of this journey he would like to highlight. There is no such thing as a sub -recognition for someone associated with a team that followed as passionately as Warriors, he said. But he will make sure to name everyone at a very important moment.