Before he kicked off another long NBA season with the Golden State Warriors' Media Day session on Monday, defending NBA champion Stephen Curry took some time out to share a few moments with a special fan embroiled in a fight more grueling than anything the league's reigning Most Valuable Player will face on the court.
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Earlier this year, doctors diagnosed a boy from Killen, Texas, named Taliq Davis with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG — a tumor near the base of his brain stem that causes the body's nervous system to lose function, prompts double vision, and makes chewing and swallowing more difficult, among other debilitating symptoms.