Stephen Curry has grown to become the most influential player of his generation. He’s a future first-ballot Hall of Famer, the greatest shooter ever, and one of the best players of all time.
However, even though he came from an NBA lineage, he still had to earn his stripes and get everything out of the mud. He was never a highly-recruited player, and he had to prove the doubters wrong multiple times along the way.
Notably, that’s why Garry Parrish and Matt Norlander ranked his impressive Elite Eight run at Davidson as the 21st most impactful college basketball storyline of the century.
Analyst says Stephen Curry was just another player in college
While it might not seem that much, the reality is that not many people thought Curry would become a superstar, not despite being the son of a former NBA player:
“For people who didn’t live through it, just understand — before this happened, Steph Curry was not Steph Curry. He was Dell Curry’s kid at Davidson,” Parrish said. “Like a good mid-major player. That’s all he was. He was not an NBA prospect at all. He had never been considered anything other than a little guy who could shoot and whose dad played in the NBA. That’s it.”
Even the Minnesota Timberwolves passed on him with back-to-back picks in the NBA Draft. It’s safe to say that he doesn’t have anything else to prove at this point in his career.