Personality among the most popular in the league, Stephen Curry is nonetheless an ultra-dangerous man for his opponents. According to one of his former rivals, he could even have been at the origin of a “murder” a few years ago!
With his youthful features and his angelic smile, his appearance is not enough to intimidate the least basketball player in the world. And yet, Steph Curry is one of the most feared stars in the NBA. Of course, it is above all his fearsome 3-point shots that his opponents fear the most. However, we should not forget his killer dribbles and his incessant movement without the ball.
Thanks to these two weapons, the leader of the Warriors gives his defenders a nightmare every evening, who struggle to follow him through the cloud of screens he crosses. If he manages to hold that crazy pace for an entire match thanks to his delirious training techniques, this is not given to everyone. The proof, with the recent anecdote of JR Smith.
The player sent to the hospital because of Steph Curry
Latest podcast guest What’s Burnin by Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, Smith was called upon to reveal the biggest competitor he has had the opportunity to play with. A name then immediately came to mind: that of Matthew Dellavedova. This discussion thus reminded him of a very specific episode involving the Australian leader, which worried his entire team after Game 3 of the 2015 Finals:
I’m not lying to you, when I was playing in Cleveland, Dellavedova wet the shirt more than any player I’ve seen in my life. He almost died in the playoffs. After this match, we were not at peace. Steph almost killed this man, literally.
Admittedly very chatty, JR is absolutely not joking on this point.
Sent on a mission on Curry in this series between Cleveland and Golden State, Dellavedova gave everything on the field … and even maybe more. In the oven and in the mill for 39 minutes in Game 3, the Cavs pit bull subsequently found himself crippled with cramps in the locker room. Indeed, all the members of his body abandoned him, too marked by the torture they had just endured.
Not necessarily very worried by this strange phenomenon, Delly was nevertheless transported to the hospital at the request of his medical staff. Fortunately, moreover, since he did not come out until the following afternoon, after having undergone numerous treatments. It’s hard to find a better illustration of the famous “self-sacrifice” so dear to coaches, and a better symbol of the ordeal that Steph puts his markers through!
Real stack on a floor, Stephen Curry very often puts his direct opponents in the red. Matthew Dellavedova is well placed to know, he who made a short stay in the hospital in the middle of the NBA Finals because of him!
