Dell Curry

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Dell Curry

| image = Dell Curry at 2016 All-Star Weekend.jpg

| width =

| caption = Curry in 2016

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 5

| weight_lb = 205

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|06|25}}

| birth_place = Harrisonburg, Virginia, U.S.

| high_school = Fort Defiance {{nowrap|(Fort Defiance, Virginia)}}

| college = Virginia Tech (1982–1986)

| draft_year = 1986

| draft_round = 1

| draft_pick = 15

| draft_team = Utah Jazz

| career_start = 1986

| career_end = 2002

| career_position = Shooting guard

| career_number = 30

| years1 = {{nbay|1986|full=y}}

| team1 = Utah Jazz

| years2 = {{nbay|1987|full=y}}

| team2 = Cleveland Cavaliers

| years3 = {{nbay|1988|start}}–{{nbay|1997|end}}

| team3 = Charlotte Hornets

| years4 = {{nbay|1998|end}}

| team4 = Milwaukee Bucks

| years5 = {{nbay|1999|start}}–{{nbay|2001|end}}

| team5 = Toronto Raptors

| highlights = * NBA Sixth Man of The Year ({{nbay|1993|end}})

Consensus second-team All-American (1986)
Metro Conference Player of the Year (1986)
3× First-team All-Metro Conference (1984–1986)
No. 30 retired by Virginia Tech Hokies
Fourth-team Parade All-American (1982)
McDonald's All-American (1982)
Virginia Mr. Basketball (1982)

| stats_league = NBA

| stat1label = Points

| stat1value = 12,670 (11.7 ppg)

| stat2label = Rebounds

| stat2value = 2,617 (2.4 rpg)

| stat3label = Assists

| stat3value = 1,909 (1.8 apg)

| bbr = curryde01

}}

Wardell Stephen Curry Sr.{{cite news|first=Kyle|last=Whelliston|title=Ex-NBA shooter's son is star frosh at Davidson|date=December 20, 2006|website=ESPN.com|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/columns/story?id=2703294|access-date=February 5, 2021}} (born June 25, 1964) is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1986 until 2002 and retired as the Charlotte Hornets' all-time leader in points (9,839) and three-point field goals made (929).{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/CHA/leaders_career.html|title=Charlotte Hornets Career Leaders|work=Basketball-Reference.com|access-date=25 June 2015}} Curry currently works as a color commentator, alongside Eric Collins, on Charlotte Hornets television broadcasts. He is the father of NBA players Stephen Curry and Seth Curry.{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dell-Curry | title=Dell Curry | American basketball player | Britannica }}

Early life

Born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Curry was raised in Grottoes and played high school basketball at Fort Defiance, where he used his coach's barn to practice shooting daily. He finished as the all-time leading scorer in school history, and was named a McDonald's All-American in 1982. Curry also played baseball, and won state championships in both sports; he was selected by the Texas Rangers in the 1982 Major League Baseball draft.[http://heavy.com/sports/2015/05/dell-steph-curry-dad-wife-sonya-kids-seth-stats-age/ Dell Curry, Steph's Dad: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know]

College career

Curry was a four-year starter at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg along with contemporaries Bobby Beecher, Perry Young, Al Young, and Keith Colbert. The Hokies appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in 1983 and 1984, finishing third in the latter. Although the team qualified for at-large bids to the NCAA tournament in 1985 and 1986, it lost in the first round on both occasions. In his senior season in 1986, Curry was named the player of the year in the Metro Conference. Prior to the 1986–87 season, NCAA basketball did not feature a three-point line; Curry's accurate long-range shooting was not rewarded, as it would be later in his NBA career. (In the early and mid 1980s, the three-point line was introduced in many conferences at varying distances, but it was not recognized by the NCAA.)

Curry also played baseball for Virginia Tech. He was selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the 14th round of the 1985 MLB draft but opted to continue playing basketball.{{cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/playerfile/dell_curry/bio.html |title=Player Bio |work=NBA.com |access-date=2009-10-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110103912/http://www.nba.com/playerfile/dell_curry/bio.html |archive-date=November 10, 2012 }}

Curry finished his Virginia Tech career with 2,389 points (second all-time) and 295 steals (all-time leader) in basketball, and a 6–1 record with a 3.81 ERA in baseball.{{cite web|last=Sumner|first=Jim|title=Virginia Tech's Dell Curry|url=http://www.theacc.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/120507aad.html|work=Looking Back...|publisher=Atlantic Coast Conference|access-date=16 March 2012|date=Dec 5, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120629175507/www.theacc.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/120507aad.html|archive-date=29 June 2012}}

He was inducted into the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1996, his first year of eligibility.{{cite web |title=Hall of Fame - Virginia Tech Athletics |url=https://hokiesports.com/sports/2018/4/19/hall-of-fame.aspx |website=HokieSports.com |publisher=Virginia Tech Athletics |access-date=25 November 2021}}

Professional career

Curry was selected with the 15th overall pick by the Utah Jazz in the 1986 NBA draft. He played one season in Utah before being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1987, where he spent the 1987–88 season. He was left unprotected by Cleveland for the 1988 NBA expansion draft and was the second player selected, the first by the Charlotte Hornets. Curry spent 10 seasons in Charlotte, mostly coming off the bench to provide instant offense with three-point shooting. He was a regular in the discussions for Sixth Man of the Year and won the honor in the 1993–94 season. He was once the franchise's all-time statistical leader in points, games played, three-point field goals made and attempted, and three-point field goal percentage. When he left the team in 1998, he was the last player remaining from its inaugural season 10 years earlier.

Curry played one season for the Milwaukee Bucks before playing his final three seasons in the NBA for the Toronto Raptors. He holds career averages of 11.7 points, 2.4 rebounds, and 1.8 assists. Curry retired as the all-time leading scorer in Hornets history with 9,839 points.{{Cite web |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/curryde01.html |title=Dell Curry NBA Stats |access-date=January 28, 2018 |archive-date=June 16, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616143908/http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/curryde01.html |url-status=dead }}

NBA career statistics

=Regular season=

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1986}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Utah

| 67 || 0 || 9.5 || .426 || .283 || .789 || 1.2 || .9 || .4 || .1 || 4.9

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1987}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Cleveland

| 79 || 8 || 19.0 || .458 || .346 || .782 || 2.1 || 1.9 || 1.2 || .3 || 10.0

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1988}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 48 || 0 || 16.9 || .491 || .345 || .870 || 2.2 || 1.0 || .9 || .1 || 11.9

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1989}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 67 || 13 || 27.8 || .466 || .354 || .923 || 2.5 || 2.4 || 1.5 || .4 || 16.0

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1990}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 76 || 14 || 19.9 || .471 || .372 || .842 || 2.6 || 2.2 || 1.0 || .3 || 10.6

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1991}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 77 || 0 || 26.2 || .486 || .404 || .836 || 3.4 || 2.3 || 1.2 || .3 || 15.7

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1992}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 80 || 0 || 26.2 || .452 || .401 || .866 || 3.6 || 2.3 || 1.1 || .3 || 15.3

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1993}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 82 || 0 || 26.5 || .455 || .402 || .873 || 3.2 || 2.7 || 1.2 || .3 || 16.3

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1994}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 69 || 0 || 24.9 || .441 || .427 || .856 || 3.4 || 1.6 || .8 || .3 || 13.6

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1995}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 82|| 29 || 28.9 || .453 || .404 || .854 || 3.2 || 2.1 || 1.3 || .3 || 14.5

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1996}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 68 || 20 || 30.6 || .459 || .426 || .803 || 3.1 || 1.7 || .9 || .2 || 14.8

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1997}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 52 || 1 || 18.7 || .447 || .421 || .788 || 1.9 || 1.3 || .6 || .1 || 9.4

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1998}}

|style="text-align:left;"|Milwaukee

| 42 || 0 || 20.6 || .485 || style="background:#cfecec;"|.476* || .824 || 2.0 || 1.1 || .9 || .1 || 10.1

|style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1999|trunc=y}}

|style="text-align:left;"| Toronto

| 67 || 9 || 16.3 || .427 || .393 || .750 || 1.5 || 1.3 || .5 || .1 || 7.6

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|2000}}

|style="text-align:left;"| Toronto

| 71 || 1 || 13.5 || .424 || .428 || .843 || 1.2 || 1.1 || .4 || .1 || 6.0

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|2001}}

|style="text-align:left;"| Toronto

| 56 || 4 || 15.8 || .406 || .344 || .892 || 1.4 || 1.1 || .4 || .1 || 6.4

|- class="sortbottom"

| align="center" colspan=2| Career

| 1,083 || 99 || 21.7 || .457 || .402 || .843 || 2.4 || 1.8 || .9 || .2 || 11.7

=Playoffs=

|style="text-align:left;"|1987

|style="text-align:left;"|Utah

| 2 || 0 || 2.0 || .000 || .000 || — || .0 || .0 || .0 || .0 || 0.0

|style="text-align:left;"|1988

|style="text-align:left;"|Cleveland

| 2 || 0 || 8.5 || .250 || .000 || — || .5 || 1.0 || .0 || .5 || 1.0

|style="text-align:left;"|1993

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 9 || 0 || 24.7 || .433 || .286 || .818 || 3.6 || 2.0 || 1.4 || .0 || 11.0

|style="text-align:left;"|1995

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 4 || 0 || 26.8 || .471 || .429 || .909 || 2.3 || 1.5 || .0 || .0 || 12.8

|style="text-align:left;"|1997

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 3 || 1 || 16.7 || .294 || .250 || 1.000 || .3 || 1.7 || 1.3 || .0 || 4.7

|style="text-align:left;"|1998

|style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 9 || 0 || 19.0 || .593 || .250 || .857 || 2.1 || 1.1 || .8 || .3 || 5.8

| style="text-align:left;"| 1999

|style="text-align:left;"|Milwaukee

| 3 || 0 || 16.3 || .404 || .125 || 1.000 || 1.3 || .3 || 1.0 || .0 || 3.0

| style="text-align:left;"| 2000

|style="text-align:left;"| Toronto

| 3 || 0 || 10.0 || .133 || .667 || .500 || .7 || .3 || .7 || .0 || 2.3

| style="text-align:left;"| 2001

|style="text-align:left;"| Toronto

| 12 || 0 || 15.2 || .500 || .378 || .833 || 1.2 || .8 || .5 || .1 || 6.5

|style="text-align:left;"| 2002

|style="text-align:left;"| Toronto

| 4 || 0 || 14.8 || .422 || .800 || 1.000 || 1.3 || 1.0 || 1.3 || .5 || 7.0

|- class="sortbottom"

| align="center" colspan=2| Career

| 51 || 1 || 17.5 || .400 || .350 || .870 || 1.7 || 1.1 || .8 || .1 || 6.7

Post-playing career

In 2004, Curry was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.{{cite web|title=Dell Curry|url=http://vshfm.com/inductees/inductee_details.php?inducteeID=46|work=Class of 2004|publisher=Virginia Sports Hall of Fame & Museum|access-date=17 March 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213012547/http://vshfm.com/inductees/inductee_details.php?inducteeID=46|archive-date=13 December 2014}}

On June 18, 2007, Curry was named an assistant coach of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats, but he stepped down before the season began so that he could attend his sons' basketball games.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1TktAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WL4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2492,4742381&dq=dell-curry+coach+bobcats&hl=en Dell Curry steps down as Bobcats assistant coach].

In 2009, Curry started working as a commentator, alongside longtime play-by-play announcer Steve Martin, for the Charlotte Bobcats (now Charlotte Hornets).

In 2016, Curry was the recipient of the Bobby Jones Award at the Athletes in Action All Star Breakfast, which is held each year at the NBA All Star Weekend.

Personal life

On June 21, 1991, Curry and Charlotte Hornets teammate Muggsy Bogues appeared in a Minor League Baseball game for the Gastonia Rangers of the South Atlantic League. George Shinn, as owner of both teams, arranged the publicity stunt. Curry allowed only one run and struck out four batters in a three inning start.{{cite news |last1=Monagan |first1=Matt |title=When Muggsy Bogues played pro baseball |work=MLB.com |publisher=Major League Baseball |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/muggsy-bogues-played-baseball |access-date=8 February 2021 |date=February 1, 2021}}{{cite web |title=Dell Curry Minor Leagues Statistics & History |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=curry-001war |website=Baseball-Reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=17 February 2021 |language=en}}

In 1995, Dell and his wife, Sonya ({{nee}} Adams), founded the Christian Montessori School of Lake Norman, a preschool in Huntersville, North Carolina.{{cite web |title=Christian Montessori classrooms for infants & Pre-school in Huntersville, NC |url=https://www.christianmontessorischool.org/about-us/ |website=Christian Montessori School at Lake Norman {{!}} Toddler through 6th Grade in Huntersville, NC |access-date=1 October 2020 |language=en}}

In 1998, Curry established a charitable foundation, the Dell Curry Foundation, which is a youth oriented program in Charlotte, North Carolina. The foundation runs five learning centers in Charlotte to provide educational training and drug abuse counseling.

Curry married his college sweetheart Sonya in 1988. They have three children, Stephen, Seth, and Sydel. Stephen is the starting point guard for the Golden State Warriors and was drafted into the league by the franchise on Dell's 45th birthday in 2009. With Golden State, Stephen has won four NBA championships, alongside two NBA MVP Awards and one NBA Finals MVP in 2022. Stephen is married to Ayesha Curry, with whom he has four children. Seth currently plays for the Charlotte Hornets. He is married to Callie Rivers, sister of former NBA player Austin Rivers and daughter of former NBA player and Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers, and together they have three children.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23980041|title=Sources: Blazers, Seth Curry agree on contract|date=2018-07-03|website=ESPN.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}} Curry's daughter Sydel played volleyball at Elon University and is married to Phoenix Suns player Damion Lee, whom she has a son and daughter with.{{Cite web|url=https://elonphoenix.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=4358|title=Sydel Curry - Women's Volleyball|website=Elon University Athletics|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}} She was featured on Say Yes to the Dress in 2018.{{cite web |title=Watch: Ayesha Curry help sister-in-law Sydel Curry find her perfect 'sexy' wedding dress |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/29/watch-ayesha-curry-help-sister-in-law-sydel-curry-find-her-perfect-sexy-wedding-dress/ |website=The Mercury News |access-date=1 October 2020 |date=29 December 2018}}

On August 23, 2021, Curry and his wife, Sonya, announced that they were divorcing after 33 years of marriage.{{cite news |last1=Mizoguchi |first1=Karen |last2=Leonard |first2=Elizabeth |title=Stephen Curry's Parents Sonya and Dell Curry to Divorce After 33 Years of Marriage |url=https://people.com/sports/sonya-curry-dell-curry-to-divorce-after-33-years-of-marriage/ |access-date=24 August 2021 |work=PEOPLE.com |date=23 August 2021}} He remarried around 2023.{{cite news|first=Scott|last=Fowler|title=Exclusive: Dell Curry on Hornets, remarriage and the time Steph nearly quit basketball|date=October 18, 2023|newspaper=Charlotte Observer|url=https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/sports-legends/article277891673.html|access-date=May 17, 2024|quote=SF: And y’all have been married how long? DC: Almost a year.}}

References

External links

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[http://www.hokiesports.com/mbasketball/jerseys/curry.html Virginia Tech Hall of Fame bio]
[http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/209/ NBA.com profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401124428/http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/209/ |date=April 1, 2016 }}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20121110103912/http://www.nba.com/playerfile/dell_curry/bio.html NBA.com player bio]

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