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"FacebookPinterestFacebookPinterest\n\nWe were back East for a while a couple weeks ago. Anytime we get to the East Coast, we like being in that time zone, since a lot of our team is from there. Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in. Everyone has restaurants that they love on the East Coast\u2014mainly just fast food joints like Chick-Fil-A and Bojangles. We like to indulge ourselves.\n\nI've kind of found, throughout the season, that the NBA goes through different waves of play-level, if that makes sense. In the beginning of the year, it's opening night, and during the first three weeks you're trying to get off to a good start, so everybody's wired and excited. There's such an incredible level of energy surrounding the team. Then you get into late November and December\u2014winter and the holidays, Christmas. Then it kinda winds down a little bit. People are still competitive but they're starting to get a little fatigued, after those first couple months. You're trying to get your second legs for the rest of the year. Then you get to the time when you're gearing up for the All-Star break, where everyone wants to finish on a high note. So the level picks up again, and then post-All Star break, peple are still a little tired\u2014especially if during their time in Dallas or wherever over the All-Star weekend, they didn't get much rest. That starts the \"second half\" of the year, which is really the \"third third\" of the year. You sort of have a little drop off in the next two weeks, and then it gets to the point right now where everyone's trying to get their seeding for the playoffs. The level of competition seems to be at its peak before the playoffs. Our main goal right now is just trying to get Nelly [Coach Don Nelson] that record. We're six victories away from him breaking the all-time wins record for an NBA coach. That's our mission, that's our playoff race. We gotta get six of the next 17\u2014and then we'll consider it to be a successful end of the year.\n\nIn reflecting on the season at this point, I've found that I've started taking interest in all the different malls in all the different cities we visit. Whenever we get into a city now and have some actual time to go and wander around, I just see what kind of people are hanging out at the local mall. I go with a couple teammates and walk around, and basically kill a couple hours at the main city mall. That's what we've done in the last four cities we've been to. Atlanta has this place called Lenox Mall, which was the best mall from the road trip that included Miami, Orlando, and New Orleans. In the cities we visit, it's that or trying to find nice restaurants near the hotel. That's the first thing we usually do: ask the concierge what's the best restaurant that's close to the hotel.\n\nAs things wind down, I'm definitely starting to think about the summer, and I've tried to get an idea of what my calendar's gonna be like. I know I'll probably be in Charlotte for the first two months just to relax and give my body a break before I start working out again. I'll probably end up back in Oakland at some point in the summer for an extended time before Summer League, just to work out with the team. And then I'm going to try to take a couple vacations if I can. Maybe go to Hawaii, try to get to Mexico with a couple of my former college teammates. The guys I played basketball with\u2014that I was supposed to graduate with\u2014they're taking a trip, so I'm gonna tag along wherever they go. The one other thing, is I've put in a huge order to this guy my Dad knows in South Carolina who makes custom-fitting clothes. That's my spoil-myself gift. I got a couple nice suits and about six or seven sportcoat-and-blazer outfits I can wear this summer whenever I need to go somewhere formal.\n\nTo read more of Curry's blog, visit his \"My Rookie Season\" homepage."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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