Stephen Curry, the Warriors’ two-time NBA Most Valuable Player, has a wellspring of motivation at his disposal and on demand. It is fed by the dismissive, sometimes harsh critiques of his basketball acumen (including his own self-doubts) he suffered along the road to super duper stardom. He’s not shy about sharing.
To wit, from an essay Curry published Wednesday on The Players Tribune: In the summer of 2001, the AAU national championships were in Tennessee. It didn’t go well for a certain 13-year-old.
“I fell short. Way short,” Curry writes. “(T)here was only one possible lesson to take away: that I just wasn’t good enough.