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Nick Young: Stephen Curry Was 'Damn Near Tears' as Kevin Durant Won NBA Finals MVP

Nick Young was on the Golden State Warriors for just one season, but that was long enough to both win a championship and, apparently, witness quite the battle between Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant for the 2018 NBA Finals MVP.

Those 2017-18 Warriors that included Curry, Durant and Young swept LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals for back-to-back titles. Durant won the 2017 NBA Finals MVP and, to hear Young tell it, it was coming down to the two future Hall of Famers to win it in 2018.

And then Curry had a rough Game 3, which Young said left him "damn near tears" even after a win because he knew he let the Finals MVP award slip from his hands:

Curry shot just 3-of-16 from the field for 11 points in the Game 3 win.