A wide-eyed rookie Stephen Curry dared to walk up to Kobe Bryant during a game at crunch time, and brazenly spewed some light-hearted trash talk.
Six years later, the NBA’s reigning MVP clearly recalls the death stare Kobe flashed him, followed by two swishes from the charity stripe by The Black Mamba.
In a fun Q&A with GQ, Steph also talks about dunking and re-watching his own amazing shot-making on the Internet:
This being Kobe’s last All-Star game, do you have a favorite Kobe memory?
Curry:“Our rookie year we were playing at Oracle and they had a 3-point lead down the stretch. He got fouled, going to the free throw line to ice the game with two free throws. As he’s walking from one end of the court to the other, I’m this rookie that’s just kind of living in the moment and I walk up to him as he’s walking to the free throw line: ‘Hey, man, you nervous about these free throws?’
“The look he gave me was so just mean and cold. Just like, ‘What are you talking about? Get out of my face, you dumb rookie.’ He obviously made the two free throws and they won. I’ll remember that look he gave me forever.”
