Nic Batum (Los Angeles Clippers / France National Team) reflects on facing Team USA in the 2024 Olympics Gold Medal game, what it was like playing against Steph Curry in his legendary performance, and his conversation with Steph right after the game.
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Steph should’ve won MVP at the Olympics. I stand ten toes down on that.
Nuit Nuit! 🇫🇷😀
Uncle Curry put Batum and the rest of the French to bed, “Night,night!”
“I’m happy because it took the greatest two minute stretch ever (by that guy) to beat us.” 4:09
I will always remember my son and I screaming and jumping up and down watching that game . Absolutely the best games of basketball ever played by the US .
When Steph hit that 3 while double teamed with KD and LeBron wide open, I remember thinking “Is this for real? Am I really watching this?” It felt surreal. One of those special moments in sports you remember for the rest of your life.
tapped into that 2016 curry
4th quarter yelling…
ive never seen this talk so much, i thought he was a prop on JJ Redick's show lol
He’s the Thierry Henry of NBA.
that last three against france was just unbelievable. ridiculous. how do you shoot that shot? for 99.9% of people who have ever touched a basketball, that's a bad shot. incredible.
Puerto Rico beating the US in 04 was the biggest upset in history
Lebron and KD should start calling Curry their HERO haha😂
Some people are maybe not old enough but at some point, the US just came znd smashed everybody by 30 and then go home with gold. I’ve seen it…multiples times.
Znd now in my lifetime they need 3´not only HOFamers, but maybe top 15 best players ever to barely beat ok players from France…..
Yeah! Chemistry wont help you if you have to guard Steph curry…but it’s Steph curry. If I have to loose against Steph by 5 or 10 point….its not normal. He is suppose to put 70´on me a random person…
In less than 20 years the gap went from 30 to 5….what will it be in 5-10 years ? Without Steph, LeBron, kd? And it will only be Edward’s and cooper Flagg ? People don’t see the bigger pictures…
As a shooter, it not that it's hard to explain. It just sounds dumb when you make one of the most ridiculous shots in basketball history, and all you can say is, "I just got it out of my hands in time and it went in." Which is a sign of being a great shooter, but it sounds so dumb to the media because they want to hear more than that even though that's literally the entire story.
France did amazing
Everyone but Lebron got drug tested. Go figure.
4th quarter yelling why tf Batum in!!
France lost by double digits still in case if anybody was wondering
1:35 It would have definitely been an upset for the ages, but I'm not sure I would put it above USA v Soviet Union in the 1980s Olympics.
Stephs a baddd boy man. Stone cold killer
Curry's performance was one of the greatest Olympic performances I have ever seen…ever. I was watching it live. I was in total disbelief.