For the latest issue of Sports Illustrated, reporter Lee Jenkins spent some time with Steph Curry and his family to get a better sense of what he went through during the 2015 NBA Finals. Jenkins learned that Steph's parents Dell and Sonya stayed at his house throughout the Finals. He also learned that Steph and his mom routinely played spades after games until it was time to go to bed. And at one point, Jenkins even spoke with Dell and learned about the time that he nearly dropped Steph down a flight of steps when he was just a baby.
According to Dell, he was watching Steph by himself for the first time back in 1988 when he decided to carry him downstairs while wearing a pair of socks. He quickly found out why that was a terrible idea and ended up injuring himself in the process:
Dell shared a memory of Steph, when he was a month old, napping in his crib on the second floor of the family's suburban apartment. Dell's wife, Sonya, had gone out for a few hours and he was watching the boy alone for the first time. When Steph woke, Dell picked him up and carried him downstairs, but the young father was wearing socks and slipped on the hardwood. Dell fell down six steps, bruising both elbows, thinking the entire time, "My wife will kill me if I drop this baby." He never did.
Lesson learned: Socks and hardwood are never a good match. You can read the rest of Jenkins' feature here.
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[via Sports Illustrated]
