{"id":91555,"date":"2025-08-20T08:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=91555"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:20:09","slug":"warriors-steph-curry-sends-a-stern-warning-to-critics-you-better-believe-im-still-the-best-shooter-in-the-game-the-two-time-nba-champion-and-mvp-is-not-having-it-with-the-doubters-and-hes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=91555","title":{"rendered":"Warriors&#8217; Steph Curry Sends a Stern Warning to Critics: &#8216;You Better Believe I&#8217;m Still the Best Shooter in the Game!&#8217; The two-time NBA champion and MVP is not having it with the doubters, and he&#8217;s ready to prove them all wrong with his incredible skills on the court."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2199491048-e1744067190539.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2199491048-e1744067190539.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2199491048-e1744067190539.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2199491048-e1744067190539.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Warriors' Steph Curry Sends a Stern Warning to Critics\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors looks on against the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Golden State Warriors enter the 2025-26 season as one of the oldest teams in the NBA. While three of their core pieces \u2014 Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler III and Draymond Green \u2014 are all aged 35 and above, even key role player Buddy Hield, 32, is nearing the end of his prime.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the Warriors are widely expected to add Al Horford, 39 and Gary Payton II, 32, to the roster before training camp, which would only add to their collective age.<\/p>\n<p>Many analysts believe the aging Warriors would be unable to match up with considerably younger teams such as the\u00a0Oklahoma City Thunder, the reigning NBA champions, the Houston Rockets, the Denver Nuggets, and the Minnesota Timberwolves.\u00a0However, Curry has issued a warning to critics writing off his team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith age comes wisdom,\u201d Curry told NBC Sports Bay Area\u2019s Dalton Johnson on the perception that the Warriors are too old.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Steph Curry Warns Against Ageism<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cObviously we know we have to prepare ourselves,\u201d he continued. \u201cThere\u2019s no guarantees, again, that you can stay healthy. Every champion, at the end of the day, has everything go right. We\u2019re trying to be in that conversation. Trying to be well prepared for another run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll take the ageism and all that stuff on the chin and keep it moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the Warriors played a completely different brand of basketball before and after acquiring Butler at the trade deadline. In the latter half of the year, they went 23-8 with Butler and Curry in the lineup until the latter suffered a hamstring strain in the playoff series against the Houston Rockets. This season, though, the Warriors enter the season with clear vision on how they plan to approach the Xs and Os.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Warriors Can Hit the Ground Running<\/h2>\n<p>With Curry, Butler and Green all expected to be ready for training camp, the Warriors have the opportunity to create an identity early, unlike last year, when they were in a race against time to make the play-in tournament, let alone the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many unpredictable things that happen during a year,\u201d Curry stressed. \u201cCan you get your identity and your style of play and your team committed to that? Last year, we were chasing a little towards the end of the year to try and get out of the play-in. Then from there, we gave it a great run in the playoffs, just didn\u2019t work out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust trying to be in a position where we\u2019re somewhere in the top of the Western Conference throughout the vibe and not have to be on the gas pedal all the way down the stretch, and hopefully we\u2019re all healthy come April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of August 20, the Warriors had only nine players on the roster, but the front office\u2019s lack of activity in the offseason does not concern Curry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is obviously stuff that I know and talking about that isn\u2019t necessarily public, and that\u2019s the way it\u2019s supposed to be,\u201d he said. \u201cThe way our organization is run, me, Draymond, Jimmy [Butler] are trying to make sure we\u2019re prepared individually and collectively to lead our team to where we\u2019re supposed to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll that stuff will take care of itself. It\u2019s the front office\u2019s job to bring the best team back. When September 29th \u2013 whatever it is \u2013 comes around and we\u2019re suiting up for practice, we\u2019ll be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Curry will enter the 17th season of his illustrious NBA career. Last season, he averaged 24.5 points, 6.0 assists and 4.4 rebounds from 70 games, earning himself a place in the All-NBA Second Team.<\/p>\n<p>Sai Mohan covers the NBA for Heavy.com. Based in Portugal, Sai is a seasoned sports writer with nearly two decades of publishing experience, including bylines at Yardbarker, FanSided&#8217;s Hoops Habit, International Business Times, Hindustan Times and more. More about Sai Mohan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steph Curry has warned critics for writing off the Warriors for being too old, and wants his teammates to take the &#8216;ageism&#8217; on the chin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":91556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Warriors&#039; Steph Curry Sends a Stern Warning to Critics: &#039;You Better Believe I&#039;m Still the Best Shooter in the Game!&#039; The two-time NBA champion and MVP is not having it with the doubters, and he&#039;s ready to prove them all wrong with his incredible skills on the court. - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=91555\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Warriors&#039; Steph Curry Sends a Stern Warning to Critics: &#039;You Better Believe I&#039;m Still the Best Shooter in the Game!&#039; The two-time NBA champion and MVP is not having it with the doubters, and he&#039;s ready to prove them all wrong with his incredible skills on the court. - News 365\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Steph Curry has warned critics for writing off the Warriors for being too old, and wants his teammates to take the &#039;ageism&#039; on the chin.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=91555\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News 365\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-20T08:19:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-20T08:20:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/White-and-Red-Modern-Breaking-News-Instagram-Post-21.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MrLuu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"MrLuu\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=91555\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=91555\",\"name\":\"Warriors' Steph Curry Sends a Stern Warning to Critics: 'You Better Believe I'm Still the Best Shooter in the Game!' 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