How Steph Curry’s halftime Twitter lurking spawned ‘Petty King’ persona

The legend that’s “Petty Steph” was years within the making earlier than the 2022 NBA Finals. 

Steph Curry infamously stored receipts of each analyst who doubted him and the Warriors all through the 2021-22 season and was dubbed the moniker after mimicking ESPN analysts who incorrectly predicted that Golden State would not win another championship. 

Curry joined former NBA guard J.J. Redick and co-host Tommy Alter on the most recent episode of “The Old Man and The Three” podcast, the place he was requested if he all the time stored tabs on what others across the league have been saying, or if it was one thing he developed. 

“I feel I developed it,” Curry mentioned. “Largely making an attempt to rationalize the chaos of that five-year run we have been on, making the Finals. That first Finals look, you haven’t any concept what that stage is like till you get there. Simply the quantity of consideration, scrutiny, moody swings, the narrative adjustments from recreation to recreation and all that …There’s far more dialog, far more sizzling takes and all varieties of conclusions about your recreation.”

Maintaining with the ever-changing narratives may very well be a distraction for many gamers, however for Curry, he was safe sufficient along with his stage of play to the place studying what critics needed to say did not trouble him. 

“You’ve got acquired your stans on the market that can defend you, you’ve got acquired folks which are going to hate on something that you simply do,” Curry added. “And I discovered that it is good to pay attention to what is going on on and in addition develop a way of comfortability in who I’m, as a result of you are going to get requested about stuff, you are going to have 82 video games and 9 months of your life on the NBA’s 24/7 (365-day) information cycle. You need to pay attention to what is going on on, however I am additionally so safe in who I’m and what I can do on the ground. It is extra leisure at this level.”

 

Longtime teammate Andre Iguodala revealed on an earlier episode with Redick that Curry was on his telephone throughout halftime of video games, to which Steph confirmed and revealed that he was studying what folks on Twitter needed to say about him after poor taking pictures performances within the first half. 

“I began that in that run, yeah,” Curry admitted. “Andrew Bogut was sort of the primary one to name me out on it. It was humorous as a result of he truly was daring sufficient to ask me ‘what are you taking a look at proper now?’ I am like on my telephone.

“I used to be taking a look at Twitter and taking a look at … It wasn’t hateful messages, however actual sturdy opinions on the way you’re taking part in and all that. We referred to as it ‘First Quarter Twitter,’ it is one of the best factor on the earth … you sort of get off on that, so I get pleasure from it.”

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Curry notoriously just isn’t one to reply to critics on-line, as a substitute will achieve this along with his play on the courtroom or his feedback in a postgame press convention. Despite the fact that he did not reply on Twitter, Steph noticed all the pieces, and thus a petty legend was born. 

Lengthy dwell Petty Steph. 

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