Curry intrigued but unfazed by LeBron on Lakers: 'Still got to beat us'

When you're a two-time MVP on a team that's advanced to the NBA Finals the last four years and won three championships, it takes a lot more than one player changing area codes to rattle you.

Stephen Curry has had his fair share of battles against LeBron James, with Golden State dueling the LeBron-led Cleveland Cavaliers in The Finals a record four straight times. James is now a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, though, meaning their paths will cross more during the regular season in the Western Conference.

"I don't know what they're going to be as a team, because obviously it's brand new and they don't have their identity," Curry told USA Today's Sam Amick of the new-look Lakers. "But at the end of the day, they'll come together with LeBron leading the charge. At the end of the day, he's in a great market, he's in a great city, he's around a great organization that has had a history of winning, he's with (Lakers president of basketball operations) Magic (Johnson). It's interesting for him to make a move.

"There's a lot that's been made about the competition in the West and his eight straight Finals appearances and all that, but that just makes everybody raise the antenna up a little bit - including us. It's going to be fun for fans, playing (more) in the regular season and who knows in the playoffs. So the West obviously got stronger with LeBron but you've still got to beat us."

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The Warriors dropped a single championship round to James while he was a Cavalier, which took a historic 3-1 series comeback.