{"id":88771,"date":"2025-08-23T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/88771\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:47:09","slug":"ayesha-curry-says-stephen-curry-wanted-to-be-a-high-school-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/88771\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayesha Curry says Stephen Curry wanted to be a high school coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine a world where Stephen Curry<\/a>, the best 3-point shooter of all time, didn’t play in the NBA.<\/p>\n

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He would still be on the hardwood, but instead of playing professionally he would be on the sideline coaching high school basketball. That could’ve been a possibility, according to his wife, Ayesha.<\/p>\n

On the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Ayesha admitted that she didn’t know that Stephen would become an NBA star: “I didn’t know that he was going to end up playing basketball. He said he wanted to be a high school basketball coach.”<\/p>\n

Ayesha, 36, also spoke about how becoming a famous couple impacted their relationship early on.<\/p>\n

She confessed that she “hated” being in the spotlight in the early stages of her relationship with Stephen.<\/p>\n

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The couple met in 2003 and began dating in 2009 before getting married in July 2011, four years before the Golden State Warriors<\/a> won their first NBA title in 2015. They have four children together.<\/p>\n

She also told podcast host Alex Cooper that she advised Stephen to stay in school instead of entering the 2009 NBA draft, where he was selected No. 7 by the Warriors. However, Ayesha said she was glad that he left Davidson to declare for the draft.<\/p>\n

“He ended up finishing anyway and has gone on to do tremendous, incredible, cool s— that we never thought would happen, so it’s great,” Ayesha said.<\/p>\n

Stephen averaged 24.5 points, 4.4 rebounds and six assists in the 2024-25 regular season for the Warriors and was named to the All-NBA second team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine a world where Stephen Curry, the best 3-point shooter of all time, didn’t play in the NBA.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-88771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}