In some instances, haters are your motivators.
As the NBA world has come to learn over the past two decades, that certainly is the case for Warriors superstar Steph Curry.
As Damion Lee recently recalled during his time with the Warriors, Lee shared that Curry would search his name on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, during halftime and use the hate comments as fuel for the rest of the game.
“I was next to him in the locker room,” Lee shared on the “Straight to Cam” podcast. “He would type his name on Twitter at halftime. It would be like, ‘Stephen Curry this’ or whatever. He would look at it for probably a minute or two and scroll, close his phone, put it down then go crazy in the second half.”
There was a point where it became public knowledge that Curry would frequently check his phone during the midpoint break of games, so people started having fun with it.
As Curry’s sister, Sydel, who is married to Lee, remembered, some Warriors fans began to use that logic to their advantage by purposely writing hate comments to Curry so he could put on a show in the second half.
Even NBC Sports Bay Area’s Kerith Burke put Curry to the test, writing him on X to do a human airplane gesture after making his first 3-pointer in the second half. He accepted her challenge and did exactly that after knocking down his first trey in the third quarter of that game.
Aside from the halftime hate, Curry has been used to the doubt dating back to early in his basketball career. Despite all his accolades at the highest level, Curry still faces criticism to this day.
But he — and Dub Nation — will take it, as long as the outcome remains the same.
