A lot of people on this forum call me out for "obsessively" hating Steph Curry. I figured, since this Thread falls in line with a lot of the reason why I speak negatively about Steph, that I'd write a long piece basically explaining how I feel.
I'm genuinely not the type to get upset because the media is hyping someone up. I think that shyt is corny. When the media was riding KD his MVP year I was all for it.
But the Steph Curry felatio is just crazy fam.
He has been anointed
too quickly. ESPN already has him at the 4th best PG
of all time. ESPN frequently compares him to Jordan and cites quotes from guys like Jason Kidd calling him, "This generation's Jordan." Teams beat the Warriors and post-game highlight reels on NBA TV and ESPN consist of showing Curry and slurping his every move
rather than praising the team who actually won. A vine is uploaded every 3 seconds of every little move he does as though every single starting caliber PG in the NBA can't do the dribbling tricks he does in pre-game warmups with no one guarding them. He is pushed down our throats marketing wise more than any star I can remember in recent history, because of his "relatability" (aka undersized, "not too black looking" and unathletic meaning he can tap into the white dollar.) He has legions of unbelievably annoying stans who're really just anti-Lebron types/Kobe-stans.
And even worse is that
he buys into his own hype. Everyone tries so hard to push him as "humble, family man" but I watch the games and I see a douche who celebrates after every, single, shot, he hits like it's his first time playing ball. nikka hit a 3 last night getting blown out by Det and really had the nerve to do his "praise to god" celebration. nikka takes 3s and turns around and barks at the bench/does some kind of celebration or starts running back on D before they go in. He routinely takes (and bricks) heat checks from absolutely retarded range that just about any other player in the league would get benched for because he himself now truly believes he's god and can't miss. Every play for him is his opportunity to bring back the And 1 Mixtape tour and he's always looking to be flashy, with the consequence often being costly turnovers (see the Denver loss.)
We're talking about a guy who is about to be 28 years old. Not much younger than LeBron who is now regarded as a dinosaur. He was average and injury prone for his first 4 years and only has 2 All-Star Appearances (a 3rd coming.) He's on a team that is largely regarded as the sum of it's parts. Their trip to the Finals involved playing 4 teams that all had costly injuries to their best player, with their Finals Win being a struggle 6 game series against a Cavs team that was completely gutted outside of LeBron James--a series that any other team held to such a high standard would've undoubtedly swept. Not only did Curry
not even win Finals MVP, he was largely ineffective for huge stretches of games in the series and often had a front runner mentality, getting the bulk of his points late in the game when the Warriors were leading comfortably/were in desperation mode and needed to try and come back.
So please tell me, what has this guy done to earn all of this praise? Praise him for being a great amongst many greats, sure. But people have propped him up to be some untouchable god, Curry stanship is seriously only rivaled by "MJ is a deity who can never be criticized" stanship.
A lot of people on this forum call me out for obsessively hating Steph Curry. I actually don't truly hate Steph Curry, I hate what the powers that be have made him into. LeBron had 4 MVPs, multiple Finals Trips and Wins, came out the gates at 18 and has been dominating the NBA since HS (one of the few HS hyped stars to actually live up to their hype), and even now on the Coli nikkas are reluctant to give him his due or ever acknowledge his status as the best in the league at any point in his career. The same can be said for any of the super stars who came before even him, like Kobe. But with Curry there seems to be this unanimous collective sucking of his dikk and acceptance of him as the greatest thing since slice bread
despite having so little to show for it, and I can't wrap my head around
why.