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Stephen Curry trolls Kendrick Perkins for incorrectly predicting Warriors would not win another title

Stephen Curry hears everything, and he remembers.

The Warriors won another NBA championship, and everyone was reminded of an easy rule: Never doubt Stephen Curry, the greatest shooter of all time.

Curry, who was also crowned NBA Finals MVP for the first time in his career, was emotional after taking home another title. The victory put him in a pantheon of greatness, like Tim Duncan, and he silenced those who doubted him along the way.

Two of those doubters included ESPN’s Kendrick Perkins and Dominique Foxworth. When the Warriors signed Curry to a four-year contract extension in Aug. 2021, Perkins and Foxworth boldly predicted Golden State would not win another title.

(You can watch it for yourself here, but just know it aged like milk.)

Perkins and Foxworth both gestured a “zero” around their eye, which even looked not-so-great at the time considering Curry’s history. But it looks far worse in retrospect, especially after Curry mocked the move after the victory on Thursday night.

Here is what Curry had to say about how Perkins looks now:

“[I] clearly remember some experts and talking heads putting up the big zero of how many championships we would have going forward because of everything that we went through. So we hear all that, and you carry it all and you try to maintain your purpose, not let it distract you, but you carry that weight and to get here, it all comes out. It’s special.”

You can watch the full clip of Curry describing that motivation:

Perkins, who also predicted Curry would do “absolutely nothing” in Game 6 at TD Garden against the Celtics, has a lot of backpedaling to do.

The longtime NBA veteran also claimed that Curry would surpass Magic Johnson if he won an NBA Finals MVP, and now that the Golden State star has done exactly that, I’m getting whiplash keeping track of the stuff he has said.

But if it’s hard for me to follow Perkinks’ logic, it must be even harder for Curry. All I know is that, once more, Curry is a champion and the contract extension was a wise investment.

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The scale of the Orlando endeavor got …

The scale of the Orlando endeavor got us wondering how the NBA aligned all the relevant interests in short order. It speaks volumes to the unique relationship of the NBA players’ union and the owners, particularly when juxtaposed against the messiness of the early MLB talks. The NBA’s current labor moment fascinates for many reasons, but none more so than the perception that we’re currently living through the “Player Empowerment Era.” We caught up with someone uniquely suited to provide perspective on the matter. Dominique Foxworth, a current ESPN analyst who played six seasons at cornerback in the NFL, after which he earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. Most importantly — for this conversation — Foxworth served in leadership positions for both the NFLPA (President) and NBPA (Chief Operating Officer) during CBA negotiations. His experience of being in the room during negotiations on behalf of two unions with completely opposite reputations affords him a singular point of view as it pertains to labor dynamics in professional sports.

I would love to know how you feel about …

I would love to know how you feel about the terms of the partnership between players and leagues. What do you think it should be, idealistically? And right now, let’s face it. It’s 50-50. Dominique Foxworth: I think the players deserve a bigger share than they get, but I also do think that … I think about Jerry Jones, for instance, in football. You can go through his history of fighting the league on a number of different cases, from the Pepsi deal to … but he backs the league in a number of different ways financially, so him being willing to push and innovate has provided billions of dollars of more money for the league than they would’ve gotten otherwise. Those innovations have value and those are risks that some owners would say that they’re taking with some investments.

Dominique Foxworth: That has value, but …

Dominique Foxworth: That has value, but I don’t think it’s as valuable as what the players offer necessarily. I’d be hesitant to put an exact number on it, but I think particularly because they own the teams and they also get to benefit from the rising franchise growth value, that’s another benefit for them, particularly because of that. I would not give the ownership class more than the players necessarily. I don’t know what the exact right number is. I would require some more analysis.