Stephen Curry is not actually identified to be a man who does a ton of trash speaking when he is on the court docket. Even when somebody tries to get underneath his pores and skin, he’ll simply reply by draining a number of 3s of their face and doing his signature shimmy all the way down to the opposite finish of the ground. Or within the case of Dillon Brooks, Curry will simply hit you with the meanest ankle-breaking crossover, bait you with a pump pretend and nail a triple to extend Golden State’s result in double digits. He’ll then run down the ground with the most meme-worthy reaction ever to actually rub it in.
However there was one time when Curry tried to speak trash to Kobe Bryant, a man who had a penchant for being so unbothered by opponents attempting to get underneath his pores and skin that when Matt Barnes pretended to throw a ball in Bryant’s face he did not blink, flinch or break free from the facial features he was giving off, which was “do not f— with me.”
However for some motive, in Curry’s rookie 12 months, he determined it was a good suggestion to throw a verbal jab at Bryant, which went about in addition to you possibly can count on it to go.
“It was a sport at house, at Oracle, they usually have been profitable, I feel they have been up by six down the stretch and we began to do the foul sport,” Curry said on 360 with Speedy. “[Kobe] was going to the road and I simply walked by him like, ‘Yo, you nervous?’ The look he gave me was one which has been burned into my [mind], like, one, he is a rookie speaking to him and two, like am I nervous, like what are you speaking about? I lowkey anticipated him to do the [Michael] Jordan factor and stroll up there and shoot them together with his eyes closed and take a look at me … however the look he gave me stated all of it. Like ‘yo you simply received right here, calm down.'”
Bryant, after all, went on to make the 2 free throws following Curry’s try at trash discuss, and he famous that had the NBA legend missed them, he would’ve informed everybody in regards to the time he received in Bryant’s head. That although did not occur, and given the tameness of Curry’s chosen phrases you may in all probability see why he is not an enormous trash talker. However while you’re undoubtedly the very best pure shooter in NBA historical past, you do not want phrases to again your sport up.