PARIS — Stephen Curry knew what he was in for when he joined the Team USA men’s basketball team.
The NBA superstar who had won four NBA titles with the Golden State Warriors, with six NBA Finals appearances in all along the way, spent the better part of the last decade facing the kind of pressure that not many of his contemporaries have known. But joining this national team, the one that bears the weight of the four consecutive gold medals and the 2004 team before them that earned eternal infamy by settling for bronze, was different.