Steph Curry would check hate tweets at halftime for motivation

In some instances, haters are your motivators.

As the NBA world has come to learn over the past two decades, that certainly is the case for Warriors superstar Steph Curry.

As Damion Lee recently recalled during his time with the Warriors, Lee shared that Curry would search his name on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, during halftime and use the hate comments as fuel for the rest of the game.

"I was next to him in the locker room," Lee shared on the "Straight to Cam" podcast. "He would type his name on Twitter at halftime. It would be like, 'Stephen Curry this' or whatever. He would look at it for probably a minute or two and scroll, close his phone, put it down then go crazy in the second half."

There was a point where it became public knowledge that Curry would frequently c