Stephen Curry struggled through one of the worst games of his career last month in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, and his wife, Ayesha, made headlines after that game when she blasted the NBA on Twitter.
In a quickly deleted tweet, Ayesha Curry accused the league of being “rigged for money … Or ratings” after her husband fouled out and was ejected from the Golden State Warriors’ 115-101 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Cleveland won again three nights later to complete a stunning comeback and snatch a second consecutive Larry O’Brien Trophy from Curry’s fingertips.
Though Ayesha Curry tweeted a brief apology in the moment, it wasn’t until this week that she truly opened up about her emotions during the Warriors’ devastating Finals meltdown.
“I was just a fan in that moment, so I didn’t think about the (tweet’s) ramifications,” Curry said in an interview with People Magazine. “I regret the way that I voiced how hurt I was. I felt hurt for (Steph), and I didn’t mean to offend anybody. Obviously, what I wrote is not what I think about what he does for a living.”
She later addressed the hurtful messages she’s received on social media in the weeks since, urging those sending them to just get over it already.
“Since all this hoopla has happened, I have been a victim of reading the comments,” Curry told People. “It hurts my feelings because I didn’t intend to hurt anybody. I apologized for it, and I feel like people should move on. There’s a lot more serious things going on in the world.”
Stephen Curry, meanwhile, stood firmly in his wife’s corner.
“I know her intentions. I know where she was coming from,” the two-time defending NBA MVP told People. “You’re not going to win any battles on Twitter, so I tell her, ‘Keep being you. Keep doing what you’re doing. Don’t worry about what people are going to say. No matter who you are, they are going to try to find something to try to get under your skin and make you be somebody you’re not.’ ”
The Warriors have appeared in each of the last two Finals, and with Kevin Durant now set to join a Golden State team that already featured Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, they’ll be overwhelming favorites to make it back there once again in 2017.
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