Steph Curry is a fan-favourite in the NBA, but apparently he’s not a superstar-favourite.
Author of “The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry”, Marcus Thompson, was on The Big Lead’s Jason McIntyre’s radio show and he name dropped several NBA superstars that seem to dislike Steph Curry. Of the names that he mentions we hear of beef with LeBron James, Chris Paul and Westbrook (Plus the entire Clippers team?).
Here’s what he had to say about the anger directed toward Curry:
“He was a big fan of Steph, went to games at Davidson, and even when [Curry] got to the NBA, they had moments where LeBron was looking at him like, ‘wow’ and then Steph kind of challenged LeBron’s status. The part that’s odd for Steph – why does that mean there has to be beef between us? He loves LeBron and respects LeBron, and he’s like, ‘because the outside world is pitting us together, why do you and I have to now have this disdain between us, I thought we were cool?”
“Generally, I think it was all so sudden. [Curry] leapfrogged a whole lot of people. There’s a whole lot of people who never got the adoration Steph gets …part of them don’t like that. Players who were probably even Hall of Famers [were saying] ‘nobody ever anointed me like this.’”
“Everybody on the Clippers … Chris Paul was one of those guys. Chris Paul was somebody [Curry] looked up to. Chris Paul used to dominate that matchup. Chris Paul was supposed to be next in line to win a championship. Then, suddenly, it was Steph … that’s another relationship where [Curry] was like, ‘oh, I look up to you,’ and now suddenly there is this disdain vs Steph. There’s a lot of those …”
“[Westbrook’s] seems to be ‘I don’t like that dude’”
“Something about Steph irks them”
Also referenced in the interview are a couple moments of that exemplify the disdain they have towards him. Such as this postgame interview with Westbrook and Kevin Durant:
