Steph Curry\u2019s career trajectory has been nothing short of a fairytale. Despite a dream NCAA run with Davidson, Steph\u2019s scouting report wasn\u2019t the best going into the draft. What followed, though, was a historical HOF career, and a very real shout at GOAT status should he grab another championship. For his wife, Ayesha Curry, though, her husband\u2019s legendary career was never a part of her expectations as she explained on the \u2018Call Her Daddy\u2019 podcast.<\/p>\n
It was simple, really. Despite being in love with Steph, whom she met in high school, she had no idea he would grow into the era-defining star that he is today. Sure, she knew he was good at basketball, but as she explained to host Alex Cooper, her upbringing in an arts-driven family meant she didn\u2019t really pay close attention to Steph\u2019s<\/a> on-court exploits.<\/p>\n \u201cApparently, he was (the basketball guy in high school), but I genuinely didn\u2019t pay attention to that,\u201d she joked<\/a>.<\/p>\n When speaking about the level of fame that Steph reached after winning his first MVP, Ayesha<\/a> called it a double-edged sword. While the fame allowed her access to certain aspects of her life that she is grateful for, she did admit that she hated the idea of being in the public eye so much at first.<\/p>\n Add to that how Steph wanted to be a high school basketball coach and not an NBA superstar (her words), she felt a little weird about the whole fame thing.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a double-edged sword. In the beginning, I hated it, like so much,\u201d she admitted. \u201cI did not sign up for that. I didn\u2019t know that he was going to play basketball, like he said he wanted to be a high school basketball coach. I thought I was going to be the girl, so I didn\u2019t know, and it was weird.\u201d<\/p>\n She also recalled how the price of fame was a little too high at the beginning, when people were being unnecessarily mean toward her and her family on social media and in person<\/a>. She handled it all like a champ, but there were moments when she realised that she never signed up for a life in the spotlight.<\/p>\n Steph may have wanted to be a high school coach as a youngster, but with his father a Hornets legend, he always knew deep down that he wanted to be an NBA player. While speaking to Graham Bensinger a decade back, he did admit that being the smallest guy on every team he ever played in affected his confidence a little too much.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know that scene as a young kid, you see looking around, everyone\u2019s got big arms, and you\u2019re like comparing yourself to them. I mean, I\u2019m not there yet, but there\u2019s something I can do on the floor to hopefully help,\u201d he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t until his senior year of high school that Steph outgrew a few of his teammates, and that confidence and swagger that we all know and love seeped into his behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steph Curry\u2019s career trajectory has been nothing short of a fairytale. Despite a dream NCAA run with Davidson,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-88260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}