Steph Curry has a far different view of his new-found alliance with Kevin Durant than what quickly seems to be spreading among NBA Nation.

"I kind of laugh at that," Curry said of the growing perception he, Durant and the Warriors now reign as the league's biggest villains.

"All that narrative around our team, how people view us, doesn't really matter to us," he added. "We are who we are and we're championship contenders going forward."

And no matter what that comes to mean, no matter how they continue to be looked upon, Curry insists he can't imagine a scenario where the pressure could be any greater for his Warriors than it was during their 2015-16, 73-win regular season.

Curry's Motivation

The two-time league MVP insists he only recently watched the final minutes of his team surrendering their crown to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 7 after holding a 3-1 series advantage, and among his first and only reactions was a sense of renewed determination.

"I wasn't 100 percent, but who cares," he said. "I was playing I was out there trying to help my team win and that's all that really matters. I've taken advantage of the summer to get right and I still have a little bit of work to go."

No Change in Style

Meanwhile, fellow all-star Klay Thompson is already on record in insisting he won't be changing anything about his game to make Durant's transition any easier. That's a game-plan Curry insists he too is embracing.

"It won't change at all," Curry said of his own role. "That's the reason KD joined -- knowing we weren't going to sacrifice anything, that we all have to be ourselves to make things work. There will be some adjustments when it comes to the in-game flow and how we work together, but for us to be who we're supposed to be, we all have to kind of elevate ourselves."

One thing Curry promises will never come to be an issue is the reality of him only being the fifth-highest player on his team's roster.

"I told myself, when I made the decision to sign for what I did back in the day, that I'm blessed to take care of my family for what it was," he said. "And there would probably be a situation, if I played the way I was supposed to coming off that contract, that I could be underpaid or whatever. But at the end of the day, it would all come around and we won the championship and good things happened."

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