Former Davidson standout-turned-NBA-rookie Stephen Curry got a good review from coach Don Nelson after his first game in a Golden State Warriors’ uniform at a summer league game in Las Vegas Friday. The Las Vegas Sun reports that Mr. Curry was knocked around as Houston opponents tried “to get in his head,” and wound up with a bloody nose not long after the game started. Read the full story

Former Davidson College basketball standout Stephen Curry has signed a contract with the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, the team announced Wednesday. The dollar amount and length of the contract were not disclosed. Read the full story

Here’s a note that may quash some of the speculation about Stephen Curry’s NBA affiliation: Golden State Warriors coach Don Nelson told the Associated Press Friday he has no intention of trading Mr. Curry. Read the full story

NBA-bound Curry (Tim Cowie photo)

But will he stay in California?

Davidson College basketball star Stephen Curry, who left school a year early to enter the NBA draft, was picked seventh Thursday night by the Golden State Warriors.

But almost as soon as his number was pulled, there was speculation about a possible trade – to Phoenix.

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Stephen Curry. (Tim Cowie photo)

Tonight’s NBA draft in New York City will end the unceasing speculation about teams and picks and trades. For Davidson College star Stephen Curry, it can’t come a moment too soon as he wonders where he’ll play. As the 24-hour countdown began yesterday, it brought a new wave of wild speculation. Read the full story

By JALETTA ALBRIGHT DESMOND

The fourth grader who worked as a ball boy for our hometown Davidson College Wildcats showed much more graciousness and maturity than I did.

When I asked him about it, he smiled broadly and said he was happy that junior Stephen Curry was going to be drafted into the NBA.

And, me, the adult? I put on my black Wildcats shirt the day Curry
announced his eligibility for the draft, mourning his decision not to return for his senior year. I wasn’t ready to let our local hero leave home. Read the full story

Lachlan Johnson

A half-dozen students from Woodlawn School traveled to National History Day in College Park, Md., last week, and one – eighth grader and Davidson resident Lachlan Johnson, finished 11th in the nation with her documentary video about Depression-era photographer Marion Post Walcott (watch it below) . Also below, news about new coaches at Cannon School, Bailey High’s new principal, and the need for international student host families at Davidson Day School.  Read the full story

Riders pull away from the starting line of the Cowbell Challenge marathon bike race Saturday on South Street. (David Boraks photo)

Harlan Price of Independent Fabrication captured the Men’s Pro Open title at Saturday’s Cowbell Challenge Marathon mountain bike race, which brought about 130 riders to Davidson streets and trails at Fisher Farm Park, off Shearer Road. The annual event attracted hundreds of riders and others to town for what organizers said has become one of the best weekends of mountain bike racing in the Southeast.

With the heat index hovering in the 115 range, mountain bikers in the Cowbell Challenge Marathon took off from South Street at 10 a.m. Saturday, biking 6.25 miles of hard surface to get to the dirt at Fisher Farm. As they rode down South Street, residents along the route shook cowbells that were handed out in advance.

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