We have known Stephen Curry to be a certified killer since he started bagging MVPs and NBA championships as if LeBron James was never there. It’s been 10 years since he started showing signs of being a superstar who, at any given time, could just flip a switch and change the course of a game irrespective of where the game is at. Over the years we’ve seen him go to ‘Curry Zone’ on several occasions but the most recent one in the playoffs was in the 2022 Finals [Game 3] against Celtics, which turned the tides towards the Warriors. However, according to SI, it is something he has been doing since his childhood.
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Fans and experts have been in awe of the Baby faced assassin of the Dubs for a long time. Former Warriors forward, Matt Barnes once went on ESPN and said “The smiling disrespect is incredible” for Steph’s grin whenever he goes off. Curry does often smile when he is in that zone, even if the Warriors are down double digits and there are just a couple of minutes left in the game clock. And consistently holding on to that wicked smile, he would lead his team to a win out of nowhere. This doesn’t even surprise people anymore who have been following his game. But that zone was there even before he was an 8th grader.
The famous grin of Stephen Curry originated when he was 6 years old
According to Curry Flurry, an article from SI Vault from 2015, at merely 6 years of age, Stephen Curry used to catch fire in school games and would start smirking while going to his streak. Pretty much like for the fans across the States and the World today, 29 years ago, he used to put on shows for the people of Charlotte.
“He was doing that stuff when he was six,” said Malcolm Sanders to SI, who coached Curry’s first team at Naomi Drenan Rec Center in Charlotte. “He’d hit one, and then another, and you’d see this smirk on his face, and you knew it was over. People came to watch him. He gave shows.”
Although, it took him 3-4 years to show that side of him since his debut in the NBA in 2009, ‘The Chef’ has not stopped cooking after first bursting the flames in the 2013-14 season.
An 8th grader Steph once made Dell Curry walk out of his game
In one of his “shows” as his first coach Sanders described it, Curry, who was in 8th grade at the time went off for 63 points. And his father, Dell Curry, was in attendance for the game but had to leave after Steph had 40 points.
Dell, who was an NBA player himself, couldn’t even watch what his son was doing with other kids.
“All these people were coming in to see what was going on, and there was so much commotion, it seemed like he was never going to stop. I had to get out of there, I felt bad for the other team. I couldn’t watch what he was doing to those kids,” Dell Curry said.
The 35-year-old Warrior, who is now the greatest shooter of all time, indeed is a once-in-a-lifetime talent. He was born to change the way the game is played.
