Stephen Curry tallied 14 points, seven assists and four steals Wednesday night. (Photo by Ezra Shaw, Getty)
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Rookie Stephen Curry scored 14 points and totaled seven assists and four steals in his NBA debut with the Golden State Warriors Wednesday night. The Warriors lost to Houston 108-107, playing in Oakland’s Oracle Arena.
Reviewing the Warriors opener, the San Francisco Chronicle called Curry, “potentially the most exciting young Bay Area athlete since (SF Giants pitcher Tim) Lincecum,” referred to Davidson College as “foo-foo,” and declared that “superstardom” is somewhere in Curry’s future. (Click here to see the full review.)
Curry, the former Davidson Wildcats sensation, started as a guard in the first game of the regular season for the Warriors, and he played 35 minutes. His team was led by fellow guard, Monta Ellis, who scored 26 points. The Rockets played without star center Yao Ming.
“It was a lot of fun for me,” Curry said on the Warriors.com website. “We played well most of the game, it was just a game of runs and they had a bigger run than we did and we couldn’t come back from that. I had a lot of fun tonight, learned a lot and now I’m ready to come back against the Phoenix Suns.”
Ellis, who expressed skepticism after the draft of playing with another short guard, seemed satisfied with Curry following the opener. “For his first game as an NBA player he handled himself well,” Ellis said.
Click here to see Curry highlights from the opener on YouTube.
Golden State will now travel to face the Phoenix Suns on Friday. Click on the Warriors website to see more notes on the game.
To catch up on Curry’s exhibition season with the Warriors, click on our previous coverage, “Curry ends preseason on a high note.“
Um, “foo-foo?” Davidson College is foo-foo? This sent my husband and I to the dictionary, where we learned that the term means “dough made from boiled plantain.” Did the sports writer perhaps intend to call Davidson College “frou-frou” (frilly)? And what’s a “chichi” (frilly AND showy) place like San Fran doing trying to call us hoity-toity? What a lot of mumbo- jumbo. We’re just glad the Chronicle is making such a hoo-ha about our favorite hoopster hot-shot. There’s nothing foo-foo, frou-frou or chichi about scoring 14 points in your first NBA game!