Tearful Steph Curry celebrates his fourth NBA championship: ‘You can
never take this for granted’
Warriors star Steph Curry wins another title alongside Klay Thompson,
Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala
>BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – JUNE 16: Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry
(30) sheds tears after winning Game 6 of the NBA Finals at TD Garden in
Boston, Mass., on Thursday, June 16, 2022. The Golden State Warriors
defeated the Boston Celtics 103-90. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News
Group)
>BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – JUNE 16: Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry
(30) sheds tears after winning Game 6 of the NBA Finals at TD Garden in
Boston, Mass., on Thursday, June 16, 2022. The Golden State Warriors
defeated the Boston Celtics 103-90. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News
Group)
By MICHAEL NOWELS | mnowels@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: June 16, 2022 at 8:59 p.m. | UPDATED: June 17, 2022 at 3:59 a.m.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/06/16/tearful-steph-curry-celebrates-his-fourth-nba-championship-you-can-never-take-this-for-granted/

Steph Curry was overcome with emotion after securing another
championship ring Thursday night in Boston.

Curry celebrated after several big shots in the second half of the
Warriors’ 103-90 Game 6 win over the Celtics to secure their fourth
league title in eight years.

But when it became clear in the game’s final minutes that the Warriors
would again be champions, Curry let the moment wash over him.

Asked postgame by ESPN’s Lisa Salters about the tears, Curry looked
first to the team around him:

“I’m so proud of our group. I thank God every day that I get to play
this game at the highest level with some amazing people. You know this
is what it’s all about, playing for a championship and what we’ve been
through over the last three years. Beginning of the season, nobody
thought we’d be here except everybody on this court right now. It’s
amazing. Very surreal, though, very surreal.”

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An emotional moment for Steph Curry as he is an NBA champion once again
👏 pic.twitter.com/fznajLIG6m
— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) June 17, 2022
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He and the Warriors fell to the worst record in the league following
their last Finals appearance, a June 2019 loss to the Toronto Raptors.
Curry injured his hand early in the 2019-20 season and missed almost the
entire campaign.

Last season was a step in the right direction as Curry led the league in
points per game, but Golden State still fell short of the playoffs,
losing in the play-in round.

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But this season was a whole different animal: Golden State established
itself as a contender early on, even without Curry’s running mate in
Klay Thompson, who was returning from two major injuries. The Warriors
struggled without Draymond Green in the new year and without Curry for a
period of time, but they had the core intact for the whole playoff run,
and that made the difference.

That road back was clearly meaningful to Curry.

“We were just so far away from it,” he told Salters when asked why this
championship mattered so much to him. “We were here for five straight
years and got three of them, and you hit rock bottom with injuries and
the long road of work ahead and just trying to fill in the right pieces
and right guys. You can never take this for granted because you never
know when you’ll be back here. To get back here and get it done means
the world.”

“You can never take this for granted.” 🏆

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Steph talked about the journey to ring No. 4 🗺️ pic.twitter.com/NxlLqElfI0
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) June 17, 2022

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Michael Nowels | Digital Sports Strategist
Mike covers sports.