Filming the sort of days-in-the-life documentary that Gotham Chopra set out to make about Steph Curry meant the filmmaker was there for many quiet moments with the basketball star.

As they waited for an appearance to begin or for the starter to let them on the first tee or for a meal to arrive they would slide, naturally, back to talking basketball. “Who,” Chopra would ask, “are the best players playing today?”

The conversation coursed through the past year as Chopra worked to make “Stephen vs. The Game”, which premieres tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on Facebook Watch, so Curry’s answers changed depending on who was playing well.

“Westbrook, Harden, Lillard … ” he might begin, and then Chopra would jump in: “You’re not including yourself?” And Curry would shrug, as if to say: Not yet. Not really.

That’s where the latest season of the “Versus” series diverges from the first, “Tom vs. Time.” That was something of a reckoning for Tom Brady about his legacy as he moves into the final years of his career. He paused to reflect; Curry is hustling to keep up.

“I think Tom had reached a point where he was able to look back more, to an extent, and consider his place in the sport and reflect on how he got there,” Chopra said. “With Steph, he’s very much still in the middle of his career, and just his life in general: He’s 10 years younger, has the young family, is still, at least in his mind, establishing himself.”

The structure of the six-episode docu-series will be familiar to fans of “Tom vs Time,” as the opening episode introduces Curry’s past and family. The next four episodes, to be released each successive Thursday, will take fans through the Golden State Warriors’ season. The last episode, which will include either Curry walking off the court in disappointment or winning a fourth title in five years, should come out a few weeks after the season ends.

Brady —  a partner in Chopra’s company Religion of Sports — is notoriously private and football-focused. Getting him to reflect on anything was enough to hang a show on (and the success of the series, Chopra believes, helped convince Brady to finally join Twitter recently.)

Profiling Curry, who is already open about his life on social media, provided much different challenges. The urgency in this season, Chopra hopes, will come from the feeling that this is the last chance for this iteration of the Warriors to chase a title and stake a definitive claim as one of the NBA’s great dynasties.

“There’s a very real feeling around the team that this could be it, is probably it, because of free agency or whatever may happen after this year,” he said. “That certainly weighs on Steph. The idea that you have to take advantage of this.

“But we had other moments, too, that showed these other pressures. Early in the season, his wife (Ayesha) was scheduled to be in LA for a taping, and so he’s got to focus on being a father and caring for the kids.”

Chopra’s work tends to vacillate between illuminating the world’s biggest starts — which is what the Versus series aims to do — and elevating lesser known sports stories that he hopes will reverberate with a larger audience (as he does in the Religion of Sports series). But he’s always hoping to deliver the same thing.

“The underlying DNA is always similar,” he said. “I’m trying to convince myself, as we’re gathering this content day after day, that it matters and that people will find meaning in it. That’s always the approach: to try to figure out why these games and these athletes reach people they way the do.”