Stephen Curry | Faith Led Him To Heights
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Stephen Curry Ethnicity
Stephen Curry was born on 14th March 1988 in Akron Ohio, but grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. Stephen Curry’s ethnicity has been a bone of contention due to his light skin. His dad is of African-American descent and his mom is African American Creole with Haitian ethnic background from both her parents-side.
Stephen Curry is the oldest son of a former NBA player Dell Curry. He learned the basics of the game by watching and practicing with his dad.
But it was his mother Sonya (a 1st division volleyball player) who ingrained in him the basic traits of hard work and discipline, as his father was out perennially on the road with his team playing games.
Stephen Curry Family
- Curry has two siblings, Sydel- his younger-sister who went on to become a volleyball player at Elon University.
- While his younger brother Seth Curry, also took up a career in professional basketball after debuting with Duke University.
- Stephen Curry married Ayesha Alexander (born 23rd Mar’89 in Toronto) his college sweetheart on 30th July, 2011. She is an entrepreneur and former actress known for her role in Ballers series on HBO and as a host on Ayesha’s Home Kitchen on Food Network.
- Stephen and Ayesha have two daughters and a son. Riley, was born on 19th July 2012 and Ryan, born on 10th July’15. After three years on 4th July 2018 they welcomed their son Canon W Jack.
Stephen Curry Accolades
Stephen Curry was enlisted by Golden state in 2009 and that propelled him into an ace pro basketball star with his impressive shooting skills.
He was bestowed with the Most Valuable Player honors and helped the Warriors win the NBA championship in 2015, Curry led them to a league-record of 73 wins the next season.
Curry became the first player in May’16 to be named MVP by a unanimous vote in NBA history.
He is the only player among 11 others to win the MVP award two years in a row. Curry then helped the Warriors win over the Cleveland Cavaliers and bag the NBA title in 2017 and ’18.
- Stephen Curry has a net worth of $90 million as of 2019. Curry signed a four-year contract extension with Golden State Warriors in 2012.
- Curry’s $12.1 million yearly salary garnered him the 85th-highest paid NBA player for 2016-17 season.
- But he bounced back in June 2017 and made up for his poor bargaining in the earlier season to create for himself NBA’s highest-paid contract ever: a $201 million salary over five years through the 2020-21 season.
- Forbes estimated Curry had made $76.9 million for the 2017-18 season, which is grossly higher than the previous years’ $47.3 million estimate.
- Curry’s Golden State salary nearly tripled from $12.1 million to $34.7 million, and then he added another enormous endorsement deal in the latter year.
Curry has signed other endorsement deals with Under Armour, JPMorgan Chase, Brita, Vivo and PressPlay.
Volunteer Work
From his days as a student at Davidson, Curry involved himself with the United Nations Foundation “Nothing But Nets” campaign. In this campaign insecticide-treated mosquito nets are being distributed across Africa to combat malaria.
Stephen the quintessential NBA star is also involved in raising funds for schools through the Stephen Curry Foundation and ensures to host a pair of charity golf events annually.
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Stephen Curry – Unanimous Media
Curry baptized his newly formed production company, as Unanimous Media, during April 2018. He announced the signing of a deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment. With the arrangement in place, it gave Sony first-look rights at Unanimous’ film and TV projects. The media house will reportedly focus on faith, family and sports-related content. Stephen Curry’s ethnicity and faith led to him to this decision.
“I have been blessed bountifully to have this stage set for me. I want to ensure to use it positively. Partnering with Sony and to share inspiring content on a global level is a blessing in disguise.” said Stephen Curry.
Stephen Curry Injured
Curry started the game against Phoenix Suns on 30th Oct’19 at home in a rush scoring seven points in the first three minutes. After which Phoenix ripped off an incredible 30-1 run emphasizing State’s defensive struggles. While trailing just before halftime, Golden State’s Curry exited the game with a left wrist injury.
Curry got sandwiched between two Sun defenders Kelly Oubre Jr. and Aron Baynes planted on the paint as he leapt to shoot. This brought him down head first landing hard and awkwardly on his hands, with Baynes crashing onto Curry’s left hand. Curry grimaced in pain and then walked to the locker room with 8:31 left in the third quarter.
The Suns wound up winning 121-110, this was Golden State’s third double-digit loss in less than a week. Shortly thereafter word came that Curry had suffered a broken left hand. He had a CT scan on 31st Oct’19, and the Warriors announced the recovery timetable on Friday 1st Nov’19.
Stephen Curry underwent surgery on 1st Nov’19 on his broken left wrist and the Golden State Warriors have confirmed that he would miss at least three months of action but is expected to make a full recovery.
Curry was re-evaluated on 1st Feb’20 as planned and it was determined he would miss all 11 February games. The most recent report on Curry suggested a return date of March 1 and that might hold good. If he does indeed return at the start of March, he’ll have the final 22 games to make a fantasy impact.
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