How Steph, Klay Moody gave his ‘welcome to the NBA’ moment originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
Moses Moody was fortunate enough to play with two future Hall of Famers in his rookie Warriors season, alongside the iconic Splash Bros duo of Steph Curry and Klay Thompson.
And unsurprisingly, both gave Moody some hilarious “welcome to the NBA moments” when he was tasked with defending them in practice during the 2021-2022 NBA season.
“My welcome to the league was probably before the season started, when I was guarding Steph during training camp and practices and stuff,” Moody said on the latest episode of “The Draymond Green Show.” “And it’s different from seeing him on TV, when he hits you with the same motion. That was my welcome to the competition moment.”
“[You’re] He thinks you’re defending well because he doesn’t pass you, but it’s like he’s not trying. He’s trying to get space for the shot.”
By the time Moody entered the league as the No. 14 pick out of Golden State in the 2021 NBA Draft, Curry already had three championship rings and two MVP titles to his name, among countless other accolades. Clearly, the 3-point king had no sympathy for his new rookie teammate — and neither did Thompson, who returned to the court just a few months later that season after repeated lower leg injuries.
‘There was another one [welcome to the NBA moment]“Also,” Moody continued. “My rookie year was when Klay came back, so Klay isn’t on the field yet and all that early on. So when he first came back on the field, they let me train with him all the time.
“But when I first started training with him, I was like, ‘Man, this guy’s been out for two years, he’s hurt,’ stuff like that. He’s coming back — I’m trying not to be the one to hurt him …I don’t even really do that [trying]but he hasn’t hooped in a while, so he’s getting into it right away. He’s killing.
“I had to forget about all that, lock myself away and play…especially in the beginning he would destroy it…I think he’s just trying to warm up, get back into the flow of things. No.” , he goes straight to Game 6 Klay.”
Although Thompson is no longer with the Warriors since leaving for the Dallas Mavericks in NBA free agency last season, he, Curry and Moody won the 2022 NBA Finals together during Moody’s rookie season — a fourth title for the two seasoned veterans. .
Now 22 years old, Moody has certainly learned a lot from the Splash Bros and has developed into a steady option in coach Steve Kerr’s rotation. He earned the shooting guard a three-year, $39 million contract extension last month ahead of his fourth professional season.
And despite all of Moody’s success in the league thus far, he will always remember how Curry and Thompson showed him what the NBA was all about.
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