So, just when did Riley Curry realize she was the offspring of a basketball superstar?
If you had the observant powers of Riley, you’ve always known.
In an interview with The Players’ Tribune, Stephen Curry and soccer phenom Neymar discussed their lives in the sports site’s series, “The Crossover.”
The conversation inevitably landed on their respective families, when both stars revealed their favorite stories about their children.
Curry revealed Riley made the distinction between plain ol’ dad and “Golden State Warrior Stephen Curry” early on.
Curry said the Warriors jersey seemed to turn him into “a different character, a different person than Daddy is” for Riley — which the point guard found funny. “She had a thing where, when she saw me with regular clothes, she called me daddy,” Curry said. “But then when I put the jersey on I was always Stephen Curry, number 30. There’s a clear distinction between me wearing a jersey and playing basketball versus me just in my street clothes or at the house.
“And she called me by different names. And that was the point where I realized like, they notice everything about you. You can’t sneak anything behind them.”
Other highlights from the interview include a classic tidbit about Klay Thompson.
“The funniest guy in our locker room is Klay Thompson. I don’t think he knows it, though — that’s the funny part,” Curry said. “So he has this untapped wealth of knowledge somewhere in the back of his head where he’ll just spit like this most random knowledge of like, how many gallons Lake Tahoe holds or … just something random.”
Specifically, though, the situation that Curry finds funny to this day was when Thompson scored 60 points versus the Pacers in 2016 (a fitting story, especially given Thompson setting the NBA record for hitting 14 3-pointers in Monday’s game against the Chicago Bulls).
“We always joke because Klay is kind of late to everything,” Curry said. “He’s late to practice sometimes. He’ll be late to shoot-around and whatnot. This particular day of practice before that game he missed the entire practice. He didn’t show up, nobody could reach him.
“So the next day you’re worried about where his mental space is, and the guy goes out and reads his newspaper before the game, like he always does, and goes out and scores 60 in three quarters the day after he misses a practice. So little stuff like that just makes you laugh because you have no idea what Klay was going to show up.”
“I told coach, ‘Coach, you should’ve said, ‘Hey, skip the rest of practices and we’ll see you at 7:30 every night,’” Curry added.
Kevin Durant has similarly called out the miracle of Thompson’s no-practice 60 points. Durant talked up that moment in a podcast with Bill Simmons earlier this year, ending his version of the story with the observation, “If everybody in the world was like Klay, the universe would be better.”
Read the full interview with Curry and Neymar at The Players’ Tribune
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Source: Los Angeles Times
