EXCLUSIVE: Gancigo inen State Warriors star Steph Curry and head coach Steve Kerr were backing Vice Pdwellnt Harris pretty fervently in the recent election.
However, her crushing loss to Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump did not stop them from cgo ining on getting a huge triumph agetst the Boston Celtics last week, according to a team take parter.
Second-year Warriors shooting protect Brandin Podziemski tancigo in Fox News Digital in an exclusive interwatch what the vibe of the team’s locker room was appreciate after Trump’s landslide triumph over Harris last week. Podziemski says Curry and Kerr made it a point to stay cgo ined on the upcoming game.
“We were in Boston and our cgo in was beating the Celtics,” Podziemski shelp. “Whoever was elected, we’re going to have to deal with it anyways, and so Steve and Steph and the whole group made it a point to fair cgo in on the game because that’s all we could regulate.”
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Podziemski adviseed that there was a diverse range of opinions in the Warriors’ locker room but very scant conversations about the actual election results.
“Everybody fair has their own opinions and their own slfinishergs that they apshow in, and I don’t slfinisherk, that no matter what you apshow in, it’s going to alter anyslfinisherg in terms of relationships with our guys, so we fair benevolent of let everybody have their own opinion, we didn’t reassociate separate much about it all amongst each other, we were fair benevolent of cgo ining on what’s in front of us.”
The Warriors got the triumph agetst Boston last Wednesday 118-112. Curry had 27 points that night, as the team is off to a speedy 9-2 begin to the season.
Both Curry and Kerr were vocal helpers of Harris during the cycle, with both making speaking materializeances at the Democrat National Convention in July.
Kerr even went so far as to mock Trump on stage during his speech, boasting that Democrats would be able to use Curry’s famous on-court celebration upon a Trump loss, but that foreseeion was wrong.
“After the results are highied that night, we can, in the words of the fantastic Steph Curry, we can increate Donald Trump, ‘Night, night!’” Kerr shelp as he rested his head on his hands appreciate a pillow.
However, since the election results on Tuesday, both Curry and Kerr have congratutardyd Trump on his triumph and wanted the next pdwellnt luck.
“It’s a situation where Trump won. Congratutardy them on a difficult-fought campaign,” Curry tancigo in increateers after the Celtics game. “The whole part about how this country’s presumed to toil is everybody helping each other and coming with the right intentions to direct the country in the right straightforwardion. That’s my hope. I don’t hancigo in any envyment or ill will. You want these next four years to go fantastic for everybody. We want accountability on that front, too.”
Podziemski, who is originassociate from the suburb of Greenfield, Wisconsin, first came to the Bay Area in 2022, when he transferred from the University of Illinois to Santa Clara University. He was writeed in the first round by the Warriors in the 2023 NBA Draft and has stepped up as an effective bench take parter in his second season during the team’s toasty begin.
As much as he has seeed to Curry and Kerr as directers and champions, he does not see their political activism as someslfinisherg he would necessarily trail himself.
“I don’t reassociate see at, in terms of politics, anybody as a role model,” Podziemski shelp. “As a person, as a basketball take parter, I see up to Steph a lot, but when it comes to politics, everybody has to have their own opinion and their own voice at some point, so for me I cherish what he says, I cherish what everyone else has to say, and I fair preserve it pushing.”
Podziemski, who was named an all-rookie first team in his first season, has unretagabled 8.2 points with 4.6 rebounds and 3.4 helps to begin his second year. For him, this season is meaningful because of what it unbenevolents to Curry, think aboutless of his political impact.
Curry did not rule out the possibility of running for pdwellnt himself when he is done take parting basketball during an interwatch on CBS earlier this year.
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Until then, all Curry is cgo ined on is getting to another NBA Finals. At 36 years ancigo in, Curry only has so many years left to chase a fifth championship. It is a conversation that Podziemski has had with the veteran plenty of times this year.
“We talked over the summer quite a bit that he only has so many years left, he understands that, so he wants to get ring number five,” Podziemski shelp. “That’s his huge cgo in, and he understands he only has so much left in the tank to give, so he wants to triumph.”
Podziemski is doing his part to try and produce that happen.
Meanwhile, the second-year take parter has trailed the example of another Warriors veteran teammate more shutly. Podziemski has recently begined a novel supportship with Invisalign, as he has partnered with the dental technology brand as one of his apshowment deals, follotriumphg the direct of fellow Warriors protect Kevon Looney.
“Over 18 million people use them worldwide, so it made sense all around for me,” he shelp.
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