Really Stephen?! I wish I could call Steph a bum (Go Knicks), but the kid’s got skills! Ain’t no denying that. Annnnd can you imagine him & Melo together?! Mean!
Check out what Stephen Curry had to say about being drafted by the Warriors instead of the Knicks & let us know what you think….
Via Kurt Helin at PBT:
Stephen Curry was the No. 7 pick in the 2009 draft — behind Hasheem Thabeet, Tyreke Evans and Jonny Flynn (the last one was the David Kahn head scratcher of that draft).
And he was taken one spot ahead of the New York Knicks (who took Jordan Hill).
At the time, Curry was bummed he wasn’t going to be a Knicks, he told Will Leitch in a fantastic profile at Sports on Earth. But the Bay Area is a fantastic place to live with an underrated fan base for the Warriors that is starved for something good to cheer for. Curry is already giving them that — they got to the second round of the playoffs and he got a key to the city.
Looking back now, he loves how the draft went.
“No offense to New York, but I’m so, so happy I didn’t fall to them in the draft,” he says after I tell him I’m a Knicks fan. “No matter what they do with the new arena, they better not change the dynamics of the fanbase. If we have the same fans, in this new place … man, I’d want to play here forever. Wouldn’t you?”
