Mid-range specialist Shaun Livingston opened up about the struggles between Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant in the early stages of the Warriors dynasty 🔗👇

Recently, Golden State Warriors fans were treated to a trip down memory lane when Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant suited up for Team USA together at the Paris Olympics, where they won gold. Curry and Durant of course won two championships together in 2017 and 2018 as members of the Warriors, cementing themselves as the greatest team of all time in the process.

Recently, another key member of that dynastic run, point guard Shaun Livingston, broke down the chemistry between the two superstars during their days playing together, including the adjustments that each had to make in order to help the other out, via the Knuckleheads Podcast.

So he took a step back and had to make the biggest adjustment, and I think that’s what KD was looking at, is Steph going to take that step back,” said Livingston. “I’ve never seen someone score so efficiently as KD, like 30 on 12 shots. So when he came it wasn’t really an adjustment for him because he could get his in the flow like no one else I’ve ever seen.”

Livingston also broke down how the two were able to come to an agreement after a tough loss early in their first season together.

“Steph, his was a little bit more volume, he needed a little bit more rhythm. Then after that Christmas game, there was internal conversation among them two, which it had to be,” said Livingston. “Like look, I need you to be Steph Curry, and then once Steph was like alright, KD’s good, he’s good with us, it was like unstoppable from there.”

The Christmas game in 2016 saw the Warriors fall to the Cleveland Cavaliers on the road courtesy of a last second Kyrie Irving shot. The Warriors would still finish the season with a whopping 67 wins and would go on to eliminate Cleveland in five games in the ensuing NBA Finals.