Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry have long been considered one of basketball’s most admired couples, yet the wife of the Golden State Warriors star recently revealed their story began in a lighthearted and casual way, through a playful direct message.
The TV host and restaurateur recalled the moment Curry slid into her messages during the late 2000s, around the time she appeared in a Yung Berg music video, which caught the future NBA champion’s attention.
“I was in this music video, and he was like, ‘Hey, who is that in the music video, in the picture that you’re in?,'” Ayesha recalled on the Call Her Daddy podcast. “I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s Yung Berg.’
“And he goes, ‘I should have known. He always has all the sexy ladies.’ And I was like, what is happening right now?”
The reference was fitting as Yung Berg’s 2007 single Sexy Lady was one of his biggest hits, but it turns out the casual flirting quickly evolved into something far more serious.
The two had actually first met as teenagers in North Carolina when Steph was 15, and Ayesha 14, but they didn’t reconnect until years later and their first official date came in 2008.
That was two years before they were engaged, and in 2011 they married in Charlotte, the place where the pair grew up and where Steph played High School and collegiate basketball.
Ayesha reveals key advice she gave to Steph in early career
Today, Steph and Ayesha are parents to four children and continue to thrive both on and off the court, supporting each other in their shared and separate ventures and that goes all the way back to when they were young adults too.
As Steph‘s career was about to take off, Ayesha played a key role in helping him navigate one of his toughest decisions: whether to remain at Davidson College for his senior year or declare for the NBA Draft.
“He had a big decision to make because he had a year, he had a senior year left,” Ayesha recalled. “So, it was like, ‘Do I stay? Do I go?’
“And like, think what a lot of people don’t know is he really thought about it. It was like a torment for him. I was like, ‘Stay in school.’
“I didn’t grow up surrounded by people who went to college. That for me was like, ‘Wow, what a blessing.’
“Like you get to go to college, you get to have an education, why would you leave? And then not coming from that sports background and understanding how rare the opportunity he had was, I was like, ‘Yeah. Stay at school.'”
Ultimately, Curry entered the 2009 NBA Draft and was selected seventh overall by the Golden State Warriors, the team where he has remained ever since and has led to four NBA championships.
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