As Thursday’s 2018 NBA draft approaches, I thought it would be fun to look at the way, nine years ago, Steph Curry handled what is always an uncertain and imperfect process.
Long before winning three NBA championships and two NBA Most Valuable Player awards, Curry was just a great shooter from Davidson who was skipping his senior year and badly wanted to be drafted by the New York Knicks, not the Golden State Warriors.
I covered Curry’s draft experience that year live from New York — he traveled to the draft with his family and Davidson coach Bob McKillop — and wrote a number of stories about him for the Observer during that time.