OAKLAND – Basketball runs deep in the Curry family.
Dell Curry set a high bar, finishing his NFL career with 12,670 in 16 years in the league. But in nine and a half years that’s seen him amass a pair of MVP awards and a cabinet full of NBA records and trophies, his son Stephen has already surpassed what the father was able to do.
That doesn’t mean Stephen has forgotten who laid the groundwork for his success.
“I remember my dad bringing home his 10,000 point basketball when he was playing for Charlotte,” Curry said at shootaround on Monday morning. “That was like year 13? Fourteen? Something like that. That was my first kind of realization of how hard it is to sustain yourself in the NBA.”
Monday night the Warriors host the Grizzlies, and Stephen Curry is on the precipice of scoring his 15,000th career point. But until he was asked by Anthony Slater, he said he hadn’t thought about keeping the ball for when he passes the 15,000-point mark.
“Maybe the message is to keep the one tonight and appreciate – obviously if I get there – but appreciate what I’ve been able to accomplish, and a good reminder of me kind of exceeding my imagination in terms of what I could accomplish in this league.