Adam Pally is more than Stephen Curry ’s costar on Mr. Throwback . The two star in the Peacock comedy series with Pally, 42, portraying Danny Grossman, a former basketball prospect, and Curry playing himself.
The two also executive produced the series, which debuted on August 8 with eight episodes. Pally and Curry are also friends, and as Curry, 36, earned his first Olympic gold medal in Paris last week, he sent his pal a message in the stands. “Being at the game when Steph won the gold medal , he was talking to me from the stands, and he made the sign for chubby cheeks which is like our sign in the show for a celebration,” Pally exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, August 13.
“I felt like I was dreaming. [It] just doesn’t feel like my life for someone who loves basketball and comedy.” For Pally, watching the United States defeat France, 98-87, to capture their fifth straight gold medal in men’s basketball was both personal and patriotic.
“You felt both patriotic to be an American, and then that was a game I would love to be at anyway ...
[I] probably would have cried anyway, just because I love basketball,” he admitted. “I’m so proud to be there for America and whatnot. But then, I don’t know if Stephen would say this, but [he’s] definitely a friend.
And so when you’re watching your friend be guarded hard and take a hit, and then you’re shooting threes from 40 feet, you know the game’s on the line. It’s why it makes your heart feel like it.