GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS MEDIA CONFERENCE

September 29, 2025

Moses Moody

Media Conference

Q. How does your thumb feel and what's your summer been like?

MOSES MOODY: It's been good. My thumb feels good. You know, got the work done early on. So I had a whole summer to recover and get back to ball. Yeah, I'm in a good place.

Q. What have you been up to this summer?

MOSES MOODY: I traveled early on a lot. I went to London, Morocco, the land of Buddy Hield in Bahamas. My cousin had a wedding in DR. So a lot of traveling and working out in L.A.

Q. Is this a team capable of winning a championship, knowing what happened last year?

MOSES MOODY: Yeah, I think this is a team capable of winning a championship. We saw that, proved it to ourselves and everybody else last year. Just building off of where we left off and we'll see where it goes.

Q. How is the vibe different with Jimmy here from the start and what was the vibe like at the camp or the gathering in San Diego? I assume you were part of that.

MOSES MOODY: Yeah, it was really good. It's being on a team, everybody come together when training camp started the first, like that's when you starting work. So it's cool to get around each other, get comfortable before you go to work and I felt like that's what that was.

Q. Getting through a full, like, 82 regular season games can be a challenge for a veteran team like this. How much responsibility do you and the other young players kind of take on knowing that?

MOSES MOODY: It's a job. It's a job to step in and carry your load. So that's what it is. You know, if the energy is lacking, no matter what they say, it's a team. In a team what anybody lacks, the other team got to step up. Our team, they are not elderly or nothing. They can hold their own. They can do theirs, too.

Q. And you Draymond did some runs this summer. What was the intensity like? What did you learn?

MOSES MOODY: Yeah, that was in cool. That was in L.A. I was just working out. Chris Johnson had some runs and so that was cool, and then he came through Little Rock, too. So I spent a lot of with Dray this summer.

Q. You just mentioned you were in San Diego with your teammates for that pre-training camp event, whatever you want to call it. But there's one notable absence and that's your '21 draft classmate, Jonathan Kuminga. Are you guys discussing this? If you don't mind describing your sentiments regarding your teammate not being here today.

MOSES MOODY: The other side of basketball, being a business of it, it's kind of personal to an extent. It's not really on me to get into and discuss.

Yeah, when he gets here, I'm sure he'll be the JK that I know him to be. Yeah, I look forward to that then.

Q. You guys were part of the same draft class, you're another year in. What are your expectations regarding how much playing time you'll get and how much you want? Because I'm sure you'll be playing more than you have the past few years.

MOSES MOODY: Going in every year, it's a journey, you're figuring out, you can get what you can. So just go in there and trying to add what I can to the team and be a part of winning. Just hope that that contribution is more than less.

Q. How would you say your role changed when Jimmy Butler arrived and how do you feel about that going forward and having an entire preseason, training camp, etc., with him?

MOSES MOODY: Yeah, I like kind of the juxtaposition of Steph and Jimmy. Steph plays fast, up and down, and then Jimmy slows it down, use the whole shot clock. I like them out there together and my role being able to play off both of them gives us some diversity.

Q. You were named to the National Basketball Players Association's board of directors. Wondering what that role has been like this summer?

MOSES MOODY: Yeah, it's cool. My first time being on the board. First couple meetings or whatever, just be a fly on the wall and see how stuff runs. See how stuff goes and then contribute when the time presents itself.

Q. You came into the league as a guard but last year, you played a lot at the 4. I'm just wondering from you, how different is that for you and what do you have to change about your game to be in that role? Because you were at the 4 quite a bit last year.

MOSES MOODY: I think I play everything. I was guarding point guards. I think you're a basketball player at this point in the NBA, pretty much everybody plays a lot of positions in basketball. Nobody more than the Golden State Warriors.

Yeah, I never feel like I'm in a different position no matter where I am in the lineup on the court.

Q. So you don't have to do anything body-wise, physique-wise to be able to handle being up front?

MOSES MOODY: No, I don't think so. I think it more technique. Draymond plays the five and using some strategy if I may in the low strategy, but four is on the perimeter, too.

Yeah, it's just read and react.

Q. You watched Steph do his conditioning stuff for four years now almost. So what do you take from what he does and what do you see from what he does and how does it hit you watching him work?

MOSES MOODY: I really like something that he does, especially in preseason when we play scrimmages up and down. He doesn't sit out. A lot of times and everybody else gets disgrouped, it's the next group, you get time off. But like he'll stay on and just seeing that it's intentional, trying to build that resilience and just the level, his level of play doesn't drop off either. I just see he's using those games to condition which is a cool mindset, as well as his workouts and his pace and his drill work and everything is cool to watch.

Q. Any particular elements of your skillset that you focused on this summer developing?

MOSES MOODY: Yes. Worked a lot of just playing in the pocket. That's something, just making decisions in the pocket, and something I've been working on as well is ball handling and footwork and some shooting.