It appears Steph Curry could have delayed his NBA career and remained in college if he had listened to his wife Ayesha Curry’s advice.
During an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast that was released on Wednesday, Ayesha, 36, revealed she advised her then-boyfriend Curry to remain in college when he was torn between staying in school and kickstarting his NBA career.
Curry, 37, was in his junior year at Davidson College when the Golden State Warriors selected him with the seventh overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft. Despite that feat, Ayesha revealed he was actually stuck in a limbo.
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“He had a big decision to make because he had a year, he had a senior year left,” Ayesha told the show’s host, Alex Cooper, per Sports Illustrated. “So it was like, do I stay? Do I go? And like, think what a lot of people don’t know is he really thought about it. It was like a torment for him.”
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Ayesha also touched on a phone conversation she had with Curry at the time, saying that he was “crying behind a tree” and told her that he didn’t know what to do. Ayesha said she advised her then-boyfriend to remain in school – though she admitted she was unaware of the magnitude of the opportunity afforded to him at the time.
“I was like, ‘Stay in school,’” Ayesha said. “I didn’t grow up surrounded by people who went to college. That for me was like, ‘Wow, what a blessing.’ Like you get to go to college, you get to have an education, why would you leave? And then not coming from that sports background and understanding how rare the opportunity he had was, I was like, ‘Yeah. Stay at school.’”
Curry ultimately decided not to return to Davidson for his senior year and entered the 2009 NBA Draft. He has gone ahead to have a very stellar career and broken several records along the way. Besides being a four-time NBA champion and two-time MVP, Curry, who has only played for the Golden State Warriors, wrote his name in the history books in March when he became the league’s all-time leading three-point scorer.
Curry and Ayesha tied the knot in 2011, and they share two daughters and two sons. In 2022, Curry ultimately earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology after going back to Davidson to complete his tertiary education. The university has also inducted him into its Hall of Fame.
