Not in the book: Stephen Curry had just finished his freshman year at Davidson and every coach I knew was calling to ask me if I would talk to my bestie Dell Curry — and see if Stephen would consider transferring to their school. When I say everyone I mean everyone. Including my Alma mater. Now mind you - only a year earlier - Stephen was dying to walk-on at a place like Duke. In fact, I put a call in to Johnny Dawkins who was the longtime assistant to Coach K. Dell didn’t know Johnny as well. Johnny and I had the same agent forever - David Falk. So I told Johnny about Stephen and asked him about the possibility of walking on. He talked to K and said they already had all their walk-on’s committed for the year. So, a year later I put a phone call into Dell — and told him the handful of Top-15 type schools that now wanted Stephen. Dell said to give them 24-hours. So I did. The next evening Dell called me and said he talked to Stephen and Stephen thought about it overnight. Then he said, “Rex, you know Stephen doesn’t cuss much but this morning he said, “Dad - eff them. They didn’t want me then and I don’t want them now.”simonandschuster.com/books/Its-Hard…
@RexChapman Thats a hell of a story. Fueled by rejection and stayed loyal to the one that wanted him 🫡
@RexChapman @jhatchlife that's why it's always funny when someone does something to raise curry's ire. thanks for sharing this.
@RexChapman @jhatchlife And didn’t leave his Davidson teammates in the lurch
@RexChapman @jhatchlife Quentin Mitchell, CB, Toledo; is the same thing in football. Rooting for him come draft day.
@RexChapman @jhatchlife Being a part of the media for Davidson basketball I remember coach Mckillop telling us about the vulchers circling the wagons for Steph after his freshman year.
@RexChapman @jhatchlife I will bet Coach McKillop is someone he very much enjoyed playing for and didn’t want to leave him
@RexChapman @jhatchlife And put Davidson on the map.
@RexChapman @jhatchlife Nike did the same thing.
@RexChapman @jhatchlife When Steff played at Davidson I thought he could be as good as Dell but that was the ceiling. 😆🤣🤣
@RexChapman @jhatchlife But were u loyal? U tried to direct him to Duke instead of UK?