Steph Curry revealed that Barcelona’s famous “tiki-taka” style was utilized by the Golden State Warriors to develop an offensive approach that resulted in four NBA titles in eight years.
The NBA legend recently joined fellow superstars LeBron James and Steve Nash in their podcast, where he confessed that Warriors coach Steve Kerr repeatedly showed clips of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona to install a new system when he joined the team ahead of the 2014–15 season.
“Once we got into training camp, he [Kerr] showed a clip of, I can’t remember the soccer club,” Curry said before Nash intervened and named Barcelona. “Tiki-taka, right?,” Curry responded.
“He [Kerr] was talking about that as a philosophy of how we’re going to create shots, how we’re going to, you know, keep things simple, make the defense have to make a million decisions in a possession so you can then find the right shot.”
Curry’s former teammate Klay Thompson also credited Barcelona for the Warriors’ success after the team won the 2022 NBA Finals.
“All credit to Steve [Kerr], he came in and had a vision, just to keep that thing [the ball] hot,” Thompson told . “He gave us the perfect example, in FC Barcelona they call it tiki-taka. It’s just kick [the ball] to the open man, keep moving.”
With an offense inspired by Barcelona, Curry and the Warriors found tremendous success. He won the NBA MVP award twice and the Warriors became a dynasty, setting the single season record for wins in a season in 2015–16 and conquered four NBA Finals titles between 2015–2022.
