NEW YORK – As with most things in this era of the NBA, of all its superstars, Stephen Curry’s moment was the most memorable. To Grant Hill, at least.

Hill had crisscrossed the country in the last week or so, wanting to let players hear it directly from him, the managing director of USA Basketball’s men’s national team, that they’d made the 2024 Summer Olympic Team. USA Basketball had finalized its list of 12 invitees a couple of weeks ago but wanted to time the announcement of the team to coincide with the 100-day countdown mark to the Opening Ceremonies of the Games, on Wednesday.

Hill had arranged to tell nine of the 12 players himself, in person, but left a few, including Curry, in the capable hands of people like Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who would also be Curry’s Olympic Team coach, while Hill joined them remotely.

“It was Friday night,” Hill recalled on Wednesday, at the USA Media Summit, where 100 or so U.S. athletes on various Olympic and Paralympic teams, along with officials from the U.S. Paralympic and Olympic Committee, and support staff, met with reporters over three days.

The Warriors had just finished playing the Pelicans at Chase Center. Golden State’s legendary media relations director, Raymond Ridder, had planned to bring Curry into Kerr’s office, where Kerr, along with former “Run-TMC” Warriors star and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Chris Mullin, would give Curry the good news. At long last, after he’d had to miss the 2016 Games in Rio because of knee and ankle injuries, and decided to skip the 2020 Games in Tokyo (which were pushed back to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic), Curry would be an Olympian – as Mullin had been, in 1984 and as a member of the celebrated 1992 “Dream Team” in Barcelona.