After the Suns defeated the Warriors 99-98, Curry, who played with Booker on the gold-medal winning Team USA in the 2024 Paris Olympics, gifted him back his shoes that he wore pregame with a message: “Book! Called shotgun with the gold medal backcourt!!”

“If you’re gonna be a good team, you’re able to overcome all of that,” Curry said, after shooting 3-for-14 from the field. “We’re obviously not a good team right now because of what our record says and the fact that we found ourselves in these kind of positions.”