Stephen Curry grew up in the household of a millionaire NBA player, Dell Curry. A one-time Sixth Man of the Year, Dell made over $19,000,000 career earnings in his 16-year professional career. Unlike most NBA players, Steph and his siblings got every facility and opportunity to develop into the professional athletes. However, he got a very low allowance like any other friend of his – $200!
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Curry had a better chance of making it to the league. This is when compared to every other star of his generation like LeBron James, Kevin Durant, and others who come from humble beginnings. Apart from having the means to do so, he also had the genes. His mother, Sonya Curry was an All-Conference College Volleyball player during her time at Virginia Tech as a student-athlete. Even still, Steph had a childhood like any other normal (not-so-rich) child of his age.
A $200 childhood ‘shopping spree’ for Stephen Curry
Stephen Curry might have grown up in a 16-acre mansion in Charlotte but throughout his childhood. However, his pocket wasn’t as heavy as any other millionaire’s son’s.
“I wasn’t in the pocket of privilege,” Curry told in an interview with ‘RollingStone’ last year while revealing his parents would only give him $200 in back-to-school shopping, for buying five outfits a year.
There was no other way for this man to develop into one of the most unstoppable players of all time. Curry was hungry to become one as soon as he made it to the NBA in 2009.
Had Dell brought him up as a spoiled brat we would be looking at an entirely different NBA today without its baby-faced assassin.
Curry’s life after school, at Davidson
It’s not just now that 6ft 2’ Curry looks small among the professional basketball players who are generally huge. He wasn’t too big until he reached college and was always heckled for looking younger than his age.
Even after making it to a Davidson and growing up to be a 6-foot-tall sensational point guard, he went through the same heckling for his baby face.
So, in almost every phase of his life, he faced adversity like any other child despite being the son of a millionaire NBA player. As a result, we got the greatest shooter of basketball, who would change the course of how the game is played altogether.
