Warriors’ Steph Curry Gets Notable Admission From Jaylen Brown

The Golden State Warriors are 37-42 with three games left on the schedule. Steph Curry scored 29 points and hit five threes in his return from a 27-game absence, falling one point short against the Houston Rockets. He followed it up with 17 against the Kings. The play-in tournament is the imminent. Curry looked every bit like the player Golden State needs to get them out of it.

At 38 years old, the conversations about Curry’s legacy are no longer hypothetical. Four championships. Two MVPs. A Finals MVP performance in 2022 that silenced the last remaining criticism of his career. That series continues to define how opponents remember him.

This week, Jaylen Brown revisited that 2022 Finals loss on a livestream. What the Boston Celtics star said was a direct acknowledgment of how unstoppable Curry was on that stage.

Brown on the 2022 Finals Loss

Brown was asked why the Celtics lost the 2022 Finals. His answer was simple.

“We was in a drop coverage on Steph Curry,” Brown said. “We should have never been in drop coverage.”

The frustration was clear nearly four years later. Drop coverage. Against most players, it is a reasonable approach. Against Curry, it is an invitation. The extra room on the outside is exactly where the greatest shooter in NBA history does his damage.

Curry averaged 31.2 points per game in that series and won his first Finals MVP. The Warriors took the last three games after trailing 2-1 to claim their fourth title of a dynasty. Brown and the Celtics watched it happen from a position they believed should have been theirs.

What 2022 Meant for Curry’s Legacy

The Finals MVP conversation had followed Curry for years. Three titles, zero series MVPs. Critics used it as the primary argument against his place among the all-time greats.

The Celtics were young, physical, and had the best defense in the league. They took a 2-1 series lead and held a fourth-quarter advantage in Game 4 at TD Garden. Everything pointed toward a Celtics championship.

Curry refused to let it happen. He scored 43 in Game 4 to swing the momentum, then controlled the final two games as Golden State closed the series on Boston’s floor. The performance did not just win a title. To some, it redefined how his career is viewed.

Brown himself acknowledged that shift in December, saying on a separate livestream that Curry took one of his rings and that he still carries the frustration from the loss. The respect between the two is real, but the sting has not faded.

GettyStephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors.

Final Word for the Warriors

The respect between Brown and Curry runs both ways. Brown has called Curry the greatest point guard of all time. Curry’s 2022 Finals performance is the reason that opinion carries weight. Nearly four years later, one of the best players in the Eastern Conference is still identifying the exact reason Curry beat him.

Brown went on to win a championship in 2024 against the Mavericks and earned Finals MVP. He got the ring Curry took from him two years earlier. But the 2022 loss still lingers. That says everything about the mark Curry left.

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