Here’s a compendium of the action from yesterday, when Stephen Curry received the most votes of any NBA All-Star for this 2014-15 season. It was announcement that Curry said today at morning shootaround, he and — coincidentally — his dad both missed:
Diamond Leung of the Bay Area News Group had the transcript:
“So I turned the TV on, and I didn’t have my phone on me at the time,” Curry said. “So I turned it on, and they were talking about just our team in general, about how we stack up in the West and all that stuff. And they went to commercial, and I figured I had missed the first announcement. And I looked at my phone, and a bunch of congratulations texts came in.”Dell Curry, Stephen’s father, missed the announcement too while the Charlotte Hornets broadcaster was traveling with the team in Cleveland.
“He had a similar story to me,” Stephen Curry said. “I guess the road trips are catching up to him, so he fell asleep in Cleveland in their hotel room waiting for the show and woke up 30 minutes after it started and missed the whole thing. So we both were in the same boat, which is kind of funny.”
Yesterday, Curry thanked #DubNation:
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Monte Poole of CSN Bay Area gives a brief recap of the how the voting transpired:
On Thursday, Curry was voted in as a starter for the second straight season.
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The 2014 Second-Team All-NBA performer received more votes than anybody in the NBA with 1,513,324.
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He beat LeBron James by 42,000 votes.
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When the NBA released the first returns on All-Star balloting on Christmas Day, Curry trailed James by 3,872 votes for the top spot.
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In Round 2, Curry’s deficit increased to 20,324 votes.
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And in Round 3, Curry clocked in at 13,285 votes behind James.
From Diamond Leung of the Bay Area News Group:
Curry became the first Warriors player to be voted as an All-Star starter for two straight years since Chris Mullin in 1991 and 1992. The point guard will be joined at the game by Kerr, who is coaching the Western Conference team, while backcourt mate Klay Thompson could be voted by the coaches an All-Star reserve next week.
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“I’m definitely blessed to play this game being healthy and playing at a high level, and for people to notice and support and vote for All-Star and follow the career means a lot,” Curry said before the announcement.
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In the final 11 days of the balloting, Curry made up a 13,285-vote deficit on James. Curry received more than a million votes last season.
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“It’s still surreal,” Curry said of a second selection. “I guess that’s a good thing. It still feels fresh and feels like something that I didn’t expect.”
Finally, Rusty Simmons of the San Francisco Chronicle reminded us that, by numbers and due to the coaching staff, the Warriors will be the most-represented team in New York:
The All-Star reserves won’t even be announced for a week, but the Warriors already know they’ll have more representatives in the game than any other Western Conference team.
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Hours before point guard Stephen Curry was named a starter for the second consecutive season — and was announced as the top vote-getter with 1,513,324 votes, nearly 43,000 votes ahead of LeBron James — the Warriors’ six-man coaching staff was tabbed Thursday morning to lead the West after Golden State secured the conference’s top record at the season’s midway point.
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In addition to those seven, the Warriors could also add shooting guard Klay Thompson — a possibility that received a boost when news of Kobe Bryant’s torn rotator cuff was announced — to the mix when the results of a vote by coaches is revealed next Thursday.
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