SAN FRANCISCO – Though Pat Spencer’s rise from Warriors bench-warmer to legitimate NBA impact player comes as a surprise to most of the world, his veteran teammates already had seen enough to believe it was possible.

Count Stephen Curry , having observed Spencer for more than two years in Golden State, as a ground-floor believer.

"It’s amazing to watch," Curry said Thursday after practice. "We've seen it over the summers, in practice, when he's been out there in short spurts. He just has a presence about him that he just knows the game. He plays with 120 percent of confidence every time he's out there. And as a kind of playmaker role, it was cool to see him kind of adapt to what we needed pretty much overnight. And I think it'll only help us as we keep moving forward."

As Spencer

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