How Buddy Hield had ‘out-of-body experience’ playing for Steve Kerr, Warriors

In Buddy Hield’s first season with the Warriors, his best performance came when his team needed it most.The veteran sharpshooter erupted for 33 points on 9-of-11 shooting from 3-point range, leading Golden State to a Game 7 win in the first round of the 2025 NBA playoffs.That key showing was a product of the way coach Steve Kerr and the Warriors have accepted Hield and allowed him to play freely and authentically, as he explained to NBC Sports Bay Area’s Bonta Hill and Monte Poole on a new episode of “Dubs Talk.”“Being connected with the Lord and just being locked in,” Hield said when asked what contributed to his massive Game 7 outbreak. “Steve called it my out-of-body experience. I just think the Lord was just with me. Just something I was capable of doing, too, and that’s the reason why Steve put me in the starting lineup to create that spacing for Steph [Curry] and Draymond [Green] and Jimmy [Butler]. And he knows that when I get my chance to do that, he knows what I’m capable of doing. “I appreciate him a lot. He gave me the opportunity to, like, be myself. I feel like every team...