The meeting of the GOATs: what Novak Djokovic and Stephen Curry exchanged in greeting after an NBA game

When the planets align, amazing things happen. Although in this case we are not talking about planets, but about people, sports stars revered by fans of every sport. This Sunday morning, the Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic and the basketball player Stephen Curry they had theirs GOAT meeting. Greetings, mutual respect and exchange of ‘special’ gifts after a game of NBA.

The fact is that the greatest winner of Grand Slam titles (24) gave him one of his rackets with a special dedication, handwritten, on the handle. Faced with this situation, Curry took off the shirt he had finished wearing to give away the victory Warriors of the Golden State From Los Angeles Lakers to give it to the Serbian, after signing it in one of the numbers that make up 30, his iconic number.

Djokovic was not the only person present on the Lakers’ court on Saturday evening, as they also gathered, among others, Bad bunny, Ben Affleck with his partner Jennifer Lopez AND Kim Kardashian.

And Curry didn’t leave them without a show. Upon his return after three games of absence, the four-time NBA ring winner (2015, 2017, 2018, 2022) gave his Warriors a victory against the Lakers 121-128.

The locals were doomed to lose Anthony Davis after the first quarter. It was a team with Davis at the start of the match and a very different team afterwards, weak in defence, without the striker, who had to leave the field after suffering a blow to the eye.

LeBron James scored 40 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists and was about to surprise at the end of the game, but it wasn’t enough.

Not only Curry (who suffered a sprain) has returned for the Warriors, but also Draymond Green. Curry, who didn’t score in the first quarter, finished with 31 points and Green with a double-double of 12 rebounds and 13 assists.

There was controversy at the closure. Lebron made a nearly impossible 3-pointer that made the score 120-124, but after reviewing the play, the officials disallowed it for stepping on the line.

Various revisions and a marker issue that they couldn’t fix They stopped the game for more than 15 minutes due to obvious player frustration.

When the game finally resumed, Curry stole the ball from James and the Lakers declared the game lost. The final score was 121 to 128.

The two teams entered the decisive match in Los Angeles after losing their last matches. The Lakers (36-32 overall) against the Sacramento Kings and the Warriors (35-31) against the Dallas Mavericks.

The Warriors and Lakers now occupy ninth and tenth positions respectively in the Western Conference, the last places with access to play-in in the postseason.