Golden State Warriors, the basketball team is considered to be a fortunate team for having Stephen Curry as a member. In the whole history of the National Basketball Association, Stephen Curry is the only one to be awarded the title of Most Valuable Player twice.
Stephen Curry is acknowledged as one of the finest and glorious shooters of all time. Stephen Curry’s team proudly won (NBA) National Basketball Association Championships three times. When we talk about this man, no matter how much we know about him, we always find something new when we re-read about him.
Early Life
It was the 14th of March in the year 1988 when Wardell Stephen Curry II aka Stephen Curry came into the world. The place was Akron, Ohio. Stephen Curry’s parents were Sonya and Dell Curry. Dell Curry was a former NBA player and was associated with Cleveland Cavaliers while Sonya was a Level I volleyball player.
Stephen’s early childhood was in Charlotte, a city in North Carolina. Dell and Sonya were blessed with two more children namely Seth and Sydel among which, Stephen is the eldest. Seth Curry also chose basketball for his career and Sydel Curry went on to become a Volleyball player at Elon University.
Stephen and Seth both used to accompany Dell in many of his tournaments where they got to learn the fundamentals of the game. Meanwhile, the family shifted to Toronto for a very brief period, post which, they again returned to Charlotte.
Novice Career
Thereafter, Stephen got admission to the Charlotte Christian School. At this school, Stephen drove his team into three states off player appearances as well as three conference titles. However, his efforts were not appreciated and he was recruited very rarely in any of the major basketball events. That was when; Stephen left the college and got enrolled at the Davidson College which was closer to his town.
Stephen started playing regularly there and it took him no time to flaunt his exceptional playing skills. Stephen became popular over there while playing against the University of Michigan, in which he pulled off a score of 32 points in the second round and ended up acquiring Southern Conference Freshman of the year award. Stephen stood second in the entire nation among all the novice players to gain this title.
By the time Stephen Curry was in the second year, he became a celebrity with all his raising scores against Wildcats in the regional NCAA tournament. He was leading the entire nature as a college junior with an average score of 28.6 points for each game. In 2009, Golden State Warriors gave the breakthrough to Stephen Curry in the seventh pick by the NBA Draft.
Stephen’s Professional Era
Stephen took the position of a guard in the NBA in the year 2010. During this time, he managed to earn more than 22 points for each game. Stephen’s outstanding performance in the game was making him famous everywhere and eventually, he was offered to be a part of USA Men’s Senior National Team.
Stephen was selected for the 2007 FIBA Under-19 World Championship giving him an exposure to the United States national team. Later in the year of 2010, he was chosen to play in the senior team for the 2010 FIBA Basketball World Cup for playing defined minutes. He again helped the team to win the gold medal. It was in the tournament of 2014 World Cup that Stephen Curry opened up and played wholeheartedly scoring 10 points in the final and making the team win the game.
After the year 2014, Stephen thoughtfully joined NBA team Warriors. It was his immense support that the team pulled out Cleveland Cavaliers as well as LeBron James in the NBA Final Tournament.
With each passing game, Stephen was growing in his skills and was delivering outstanding performance. In the year 2015, Stephen’s team win over 24 games and for this, all the credit goes to Stephen Curry. This made the team stand on the NBA record with a total of 73 wins. Thereafter, Stephen was once again the driving force behind his team to a final tournament with the Cavaliers in the year 2014. This play was also the second NBA Championship for the team in almost three years where the Warriors won the game.
How Was Stephen’s Life
Stephen Curry was in a relationship with his college mate Ayesha Alexander for a long time before they got married on the 30th of July in the year 2011. It was in Toronto, Canada where Ayesha Curry was born. The date was 23rd March 1989. Ayesha has been a multi-tasking woman who apart from being a businesswoman has appeared in the HBO series Ballers, hosted the cooking show ‘Ayesha’s Home Kitchen’ telecasted on the Food Network Channel. Stephen and Ayesha are blessed with two girls named Riley and Ryan and a boy named Canon.
Stephen has been quite open about his faith in Christianity and has been openly praising almighty for anything and everything he is and has today. While he was studying at the Davidson, he was actively involved with the United Nations Nets Campaign dedicated to the delivery of mosquito nets that are insecticide-treated and is useful for fighting malaria. These nets were delivered all over in Africa.
Stephen is also running a charity organization named Stephen Curry Foundation which is working on raising funds for the schools. Also, the foundation keeps on hosting a few charity golf events.
Stephen Curry’s Physical Information
Stephen Curry is of 32 years at present. Stephen Curry’s height is 6 feet. 3 inches and weight around 84 kgs.
Valuations & Worth
Stephen signed a 4-year agreement extension with the Golden State Warriors in the year 2012 where he was to be paid $ 12.1 yearly. This salary made Stephen stand in the 85th position in the highest-paid NBA player. However, when the contract got renewed in the year 2017, Curry made sure to cover up the loss and ultimately, he signed a contract with the highest amount ever. Stephen is to get $200 million as a salary for five years.
Stephen owns a home in Atherton, California which is worth $31 million. Apart from this, in the year 2015, Stephen bought another house of $3.2 million in Walnut, California.
Stephen Curry has also signed endorsement deals with JPMorgan Chase, Vivo, PressPlay, Brita and Under Armour. To date, Stephen Curry’s net worth is predicted to be $ 130,000,000 ($130 million).
People are seeing Stephen Curry as the face of the NBA after James. Stephen has been considered as the most famous international athlete by ESPN and one of the highest-paid celebrities for endorsements by Forbes.