One of many biggest moments in NBA historical past got here on June 19, 2016, when Kyrie Irving hit a clutch three-point shot to take the lead and win towards Steph Curry and the Warriors. It was a second that created an enormous domino impact inside the NBA and one which each Curry and Kyrie nonetheless bear in mind.

In an interview with Logan Murdock of The Ringer, each Curry and Irving revisited their iconic Recreation 7 NBA Finals second yet another time.

“I assumed I used to be shut sufficient that I might take away the pull-up, after which your complete objective is to only maintain a physique on him and [make him] drive into site visitors,” Curry stated to Murdock.

Nevertheless, Curry made one deadly flaw and Kyrie Irving knew it. Curry did not know that Irving had a proper stepback.

“One factor that he didn’t know was that I had a proper stepback,” Irving stated. “So after I dribbled and I hesi’d and I type of bought him off and I stepped proper, he didn’t anticipate me to step proper as a result of he wasn’t shut sufficient to my physique to get an amazing contest.”

Curry believes he defended Irving as nice as potential, and solely gave Irving a few inches. Nevertheless, Kyrie Irving is so good at basketball that he can flip inches into miles, and that was all he wanted to win the sport.

“There was one half step that, on reflection, that little facet step gave him sufficient of a distance,” Curry stated. “As a result of a contest was there, however he was simply excessive of it. I did every thing, I assumed. … It’s a sport of inches.”

Steph Curry and Kyrie Irving have had some historic battles towards one another. The character of what makes a rivalry nice is the truth that either side have gotten wins towards one another – one thing each Irving and Curry have achieved.