Before former Celtics legend Sam Jones died, he made sure that his appreciation and respect for Warriors star Stephen Curry was known.
In 2017 Jones and his former Celtics teammate Bill Russell signed a basketball. Two years later, while watching a Warriors game with his family, Jones realized who he wanted that ball to go to, telling his family that if Curry ever won another championship he deserved to have the basketball.
Following the deaths of Jones in 2021 and Russell in 2022, Golden State faced off against the Celtics at Boston’s TD Garden on Thursday night.