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"FacebookPinterest\n\n Today: &amp;quot;Stephen Curry and the NBA Draft&amp;quot;\n\n Wednesday: &amp;quot;Stephen Curry&amp;#39;s Summer in Charlotte&amp;quot;\n\n Friday: &amp;quot;Stephen Curry Moves to Oakland&amp;quot;_\n\nAs soon as the school year ended, I signed with my agency, Octagon, and moved to D.C. to work out with a personal trainer and some strength coaches that Octagon hooked me up with. So from the end of May until the middle of June, I was working out everyday with the other four guys that Octagon had signed for the draft class. We would visit with teams, workout for a day or two, and then come back to D.C. Then we&amp;#39;d work out some more before making another trip. That was pretty much the pattern up until the Draft.\n\nThe Draft was on a Thursday in New York, so I got there Tuesday night\u2014a few days early to do the media circuit. We had photo shoots. We had a charity event. We got to tour New York for a little bit. I had only been to New York to play ball. Maybe three or four times for games. When Thursday came around there was more media stuff. At the hotel there were a bunch of NBA sponsors that we had to meet. We were busy all Draft Day. Then that night, we all put on our suits\u2014about a month before the Draft, a guy in Greensboro helped me design my suit, make it, and tailor it\u2014and went over to Madison Square Garden. We took a bunch of pictures with the commissioner. We took some pictures with some more NBA sponsors and some fans, too. Then you&amp;#39;re sitting in the green room before the actual Draft starts. Waiting. That was probably the longest three hours of my life, just waiting.\n\nThere were 16 of us that got invited to the Draft. A small group, and we all pretty much spent the whole two days together while we were in New York. And so we&amp;#39;re all sitting there in the green room. I was anxious. You kind of don&amp;#39;t know what to expect in that moment. After the first pick&amp;#39;s done, you think every pick after that is gonna be you--and then there&amp;#39;s a minor letdown right after Commissioner Stern calls somebody else&amp;#39;s name. And then, as soon as the clock starts for the next team, you get nervous again. It&amp;#39;s a rollercoaster of emotions.\n\nI had paid a little attention to the projections, but only from watching SportsCenter every day. I didn&amp;#39;t go out and seek the projections, but I&amp;#39;d heard some stuff. You hear New York at No. 8. You hear maybe Minnesota at No. 5 or 6. And so for the three minutes when each team is on the clock, you start thinking about everything that could happen. How do you fit on the team? (I knew everybody&amp;#39;s roster pretty much.) You&amp;#39;re thinking about moving to a new city\u2014how far that is from Charlotte, where I grew up and lived for so long. All that kind of stuff goes through your head. And then, Golden State comes up, and that&amp;#39;s the farthest I could possibly move from home. They let the clock run down to zero, and then...they pick me. I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State&amp;#39;s front offices before the Draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn&amp;#39;t think that I would end up there. But David Stern called me. As soon as I heard my name, I was so relieved that this whole thing was over with because it was so stressful. I was up all night celebrating with my family. I had about eight people there with me: my Mom, Dad, sister, brother, girlfriend, and some of my friends. We had a few rooms at the hotel, but we were all down in the lobby just having fun. I didn&amp;#39;t take my hat off for two days. But right away, that next day, we got on a five-and-a-half hour flight, and ended up in the Bay Area. Now I&amp;#39;m a West Coast guy."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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