Curry happy as long as Warriors player wins Finals MVP
The Golden State Warriors have said it before and they'll say it again: They just want to be the last team standing at the end of the season, and they don't care who gets the credit.
Steph Curry won his second straight regular-season MVP award this year, but given the performances some of his teammates have put forth in Games 1 and 2 of the Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers, he may come up empty again when it comes to Finals MVP (Andre Iguodala won last year).
Curry was asked ahead of Wednesday's Game 3 whether he cares about winning the individual end-of-playoffs hardware this time around.
"As long as it's somebody from our team, means we won," he said. "I'll be alright."
Curry's probably right. While there's no rule prohibiting a player from the losing team winning Finals MVP, Jerry West is the only player to do it, and that happened 47 years ago. LeBron James last year may have come closer than anyone to repeating the feat.
Curry's response echoed that of Draymond Green on Monday. Green was asked, after his monster Game 2 helped put the Warriors up 2-0, how he felt about his chances of winning Finals MVP when all was said and done.
"Our team is the MVP, if it's possible," he said. "If we're giving the MVP after two games, give it to this team."
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