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Here’s Steph Curry Dominating A Basketball Game Back In 8th Grade



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This will likely shock you, but Steph Curry‘s incredible basketball talent didn’t just show up right before Davidson’s incredible 2008 NCAA Tournament run.
And I can prove it, with the help of footage of him dominating back in eighth grade.
Sure, the competition isn’t the greatest–even with his NBA dad, Dell, putting forth minimal effort. But you do see flashes of the younger Curry’s game at work. There’s the sharpshooting from distance, the fancy dribbling and snazzy passes we’ve all come to love.
Led by Curry, this ragamuffin group of seventh- and eighth-graders crushed their Toronto competition.
“He was this tiny little guy, but when we put him on the court he was just unbelievable. He was scoring 40 points, 50 points a game, no problem,” gushed James Lackey, the history teacher who coached the Saints during their out-of-nowhere undefeated season of 2001-02. “No one even came close to us that year.”
 Pretty damn impressive considering the relative sloppiness on display from his teammates here.
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26-Year-Old NBA Player Talks About Why He Left The League After Making $30 Million In Five Years


Professional sports are an aspirational dream job for many, no matter where they are in life: You get to showcase athletic talents at the highest level imaginable and get paid millions and millions of dollars to do it. Your “job” is far from a nine-to-five and you get an offseason that makes school summer breaks look like an eternity. It’s a dream job for pretty much… everyone.
Except Larry Sanders. The Milwaukee Bucks forward walked away from the NBA after five years in the league shortly after last week’s trade deadline. He agreed to a buyout of his $44 million contract. According to Business Insider, he left $21 million on the table, though managed to net at least $30 million over the course of his career.
Today, in a candid exclusive given to Derek Jeter’s site, the Sports Tribute, Sanders talked about why he walked away from the NBA with millions of dollars on the table:
As a person who grew up with nothing, I know money is important. I’m incredibly grateful to have had the chance to play in the NBA. But at the same time, that’s not what fuels me. I’ve never chased money. It’s never been how I define success. Happiness isn’t behind a golden gate.
Watch the video above and read more about him over at Business Insider. It’s a classic “money doesn’t make you happy” story. More or less, the job and spotlight of the NBA didn’t make him happy. Basketball was more a means to an end and skateboarding and music and other pursuits were his real passion,according to this profile in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
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Watch Steph Curry Destroy The San Antonio Spurs Defense With Series Of Amazing Plays



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Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors embarrassed the defending champion San Antonio Spurs on Friday night. Curry was his usual brilliant self, making remarkable plays and looking completely unstoppable in rhe process.
Watch as Steph Curry breaks Tony Parker’s ankles, dishes a no-look behind-the-back pass to Klay Thompson, and finishes a fast break by going behind-the-back for a layup.


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