Curry grew up in an athletic family in Charlotte, North Carolina. Curry was born on March 14, 1988 in Akron Ohio to Sonya and Dell Curry. Curry was born in the same hospital as former basketball star, Lebron James. Curry is the oldest of his brother Seth Curry, and sister Sydel Curry. Athletics runs in the Curry family. Dell Curry played professional basketball too from 1987 to 2002. Sonya Curry played volleyball at Virginia Tech along with Sydel years later who plays at Elon University. Seth Curry also plays professional basketball. Steph Curry has been playing basketball since the age of 5, and he grew up watching Dell and learning the rules and fundamentals of the game. Curry had also played baseball but did not succeed at it like basketball.…show more content… He played varsity basketball three years and reformed his jump shot because he was short and wanted to be able to shoot over taller kids. Curry was never recruited to a college but later decided to try out at local Davidson College. Curry shocked everyone with his amazing jump shot at a small size. Even though the jersey was huge on him Curry still wore the number thirty. While at Davidson Curry received many awards including All-State, Southern Conference player of the year, all conference and team Most Valuable Player award, and an All American. Curry led Davidson to the Elite-Eight and they got to the Final Four in the National Collegiate Athletic Association playoffs. Curry decided to skip senior year and go right to the National Basketball Association so Curry can not get his jersey retired at Davidson until Curry…show more content… He was drafted seventh pick overall by the Golden State Warriors in 2009 and signed for a four year contract for $12.7 million dollars. In 2010 Curry was named All-Rookie First Team. Curry immediately set the Warriors shooting percentage to 93.4%. Sonya Curry fines Steph after three turnovers, after that Steph owes Sonya $100. Curry has been one of the most successful basketball players. Devastation struck Curry in 2010 in a game against the Spurs. Curry sprained his ankle and was out for a couple games, but Curry still came back before it rehealed. Curry hurt his ankle many times that season and later in May of 2011 had surgery. In 2012 Curry hurt his ankle again and missed forty games. After coming back Curry set an all time season record hitting 272 threes that season but then coming back the next season to beat that by making 286 threes in a season. That same year Curry lead the league in steals and got his first Most Valuable Player Award. Curry also led the Warriors to a National Basketball Association finals championship and the first finals win since 1975. The following season Curry yet again received the Most Valuable Player Award and led the Warriors to another finals which they
