Sam Amick

USA TODAY Sports

OAKLAND – Stephen Curry pushed back against the public narrative surrounding his Golden State Warriors super team after practice on Sunday, coming to the defense of teammate Draymond Green after a recent ESPN article painted him in quite the unflattering light.

This comes after new addition Kevin Durant has been routinely ridiculed in some circles for making this free agency choice in July. Before that, it was Curry receiving so much criticism after the Warriors fell short in the Finals in June. That din, like most when it comes to these Warriors, never died down.

Behold the NBA’s latest black hat team and all that comes with it. Or, as one team security member’s t-shirt read, the “Super Villains.”

But media chatter is one thing – and there will be an endless stream of it surrounding this team all season long. The question that matters, and that I posed to the back-to-back MVP here at the tail end of their preseason, is whether or not the mood behind the curtain is a point of concern for him and his team.

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“Honestly, none of that stuff (the negativity) has crept in,” said Curry, who has played with Green since he was drafted in the second round by the Warriors in 2012. “We have to respond. Obviously the article about Draymond, we all thought it was ridiculous and kind of looking through a keyhole at somebody’s life that you don’t really know about.

“We see every single day what goes on, what a guy like Draymond brings to the table for us, how he makes us better, how KD (Durant) does that for us, what Klay (Thompson) does for us, all the way down the list. And we appreciate everybody’s role. We appreciate what our common goal is. When we get back in the locker room, and practice, and when we’re by ourselves, the mood is pretty solid, something that I’m pretty confident will allow us to have maturity when it comes to the noise around us and how we handle it and not letting that affect how we play on the court and how we see each other and let that get in the way. I’m going to do my part in trying to lead that charge, and make sure it’s all about basketball.”