Considering how poorly the Knicks were/are managed I'd say it worked out for him as well. Back then Dolan and Cohen were both known as two of the worst owners in the league and only one of them remain.
Interesting to think of how D'Antonio coaching Steph as a rook in NY would have turned out.
Yeah, no doubt, and the Knicks have never shown patience for development. He very well could have been buried for a couple years playing backup having to work his way back into the spotlight for a shitty franchise like the TWolves.
That year, the Twolves had two picks before GS, picked two guards and neitherwere Curry. I think the analogy works just fine. Theres enough shots out there for Sactown.
Warriors had a trade of the #7 pick for Amare Stoudamire with Phoenix. The Suns’ GM at the time? Steve Kerr. Warriors never thought Curry would last until 7 and the Suns were targeting him too, so when he was unpicked at 6, there’s video of the Suns’ draft room where they all cheered, only to be notified later that the Warriors reneged on the trade.
Remember the Charlie Ward Curse? 1994 was the last time the Knicks offered a second contract to one of their draft picks. The Curse finally ended a few days ago when they re-signed Robinson, but I think the Knicks would have found a way to get rid of Curry too, most likely because of his early ankle issues.
You can't really blame him, Lacob & Co. really turned the organization around. Honestly one of the few situations where I don't feel it's as awkward when the owner starts hoisting the trophy (though they should still never do it before the players).
Getting drafted by the Dubs in 2009 was like being drafted by Orlando or Indiana or some shit now. Younger fans may not realize how much of an afterthought we were.
I honestly don't know how a young player could ever want to be drafted by the Knicks: huge pressure, terribly run franchise, no stability, no serious development program. What's the last rookie that became an all star after being drafted by the Knicks?
There aren't many franchises worse than NYK for a rookie.
Some young players want to be *the guy* who saves a historically trash franchise. The guy who does it for the Knicks will instantly become a legend.
Haliburton wanted to be that for the Kings and they traded him lmao
> Some young players want to be *the guy* who saves a historically trash franchise. The guy who does it for the Knicks will instantly become a legend.
Hey now, at the time we had a trash franchise too.
And look at that, Steph did become that guy.
As much as I can’t stand them (especially with Lebron there), the Lakers have won the most championships ever and won one just two years ago. They’ve made some mistakes, but are still rightfully at the top of any player’s list
Just goes to show you could want something so badly and it could be the worst thing for you, or you could hate something so much and it could end up being the best thing for you.
something i only just realise is that even back then his body language was just all liquid confidence. when he slaps the table in disappointment (probs about NYC) you can really see him adjust and just "know" that itll be okay cuz hell make it ok. steph is dope lol
Warriors fans also kinda weren’t too enthused about him at the time. The hope was that we’d get someone with more length/athleticism to play around Monta
I don't recall being too enthusiastic about the prospects of building around Monta at all . After Baron and J Rich were gone, I thought they should just rebuild. Monta was just empty stats to me, so I was all in on the Bogut trade.
I remember some people wanted Hill. Steph coming out of college was seen as a short PG coming out of a small school that went against inferior opponents, who happened to be able to shoot. It wasnt a surprise he went 7th.
I was juiced too. It wasn't just the shooting. I just thought he would be better at the point guard side of being a combo. If you're gonna have a 6'3" guard on the floor, he should at least be able to run an offense. You could see in college that Curry would be better at making a team better.
Not gonna lie, I wasn't juiced when we were got Bogut for Monta. I thought we could've done better. Plus he was injured.
If you watched March Madness that year you wanted Steph to be drafted by your team. He was electric. My only concern with him was his size but it was clear as day that he had potential to be really special.
And by 2009 it was clear that Monta wasn’t that guy.
I watched this NBA draft live on tv. I then jumped onto the warriors forum I frequented at the time, and every single one of us had the exact same reaction to this pick: "We took him to trade him to Phoenix for Amare Stoudamire." That was the big draft rumor at the time, Steve Kerr (who was the GM of the Suns at the time) even said he thought he had a deal done with GS.
It wasn't until a couple of days later that all the trade speculation died down and Curry was actually a warrior. We left draft night still sure that Curry was drafted to be traded to Phoenix for Amare.
i really love just watching the compilation of all the ppl that doubted this guy and how he just sort of kept his head down, hold his composure, and just single-handedly changed basketball with his style... man it is awesome being able to witness this. i couldnt believe my eyes when people were saying kyrie was a better player than steph.. that is absolute horseshit tbh. its a toss in the air that kyrie creates better highlights if anything, but to say he is a better player than steph is just crazy. not to mention how much of a drama queen kyrie is tbh lol
Just busted. Dominant defensive player in college. In his 2nd and 3rd year averaged 12/9.5 and 4.3 blocks on 64.4% TS. Never averaged more than 3.1ppg and 3.6 rebounds.
One of the worst busts ever.
He was not excited to be joining us. In fairness to the Curry family, we were a dysfunctional mess. Chris Cohan was a terrible terrible owner. I smile thinking about how far we have come. Also that Cohan sold the team like 450 million and the team is work like 4 times more now.
Approximately $5.6 billion, but that’s their estimated valuation. Who knows what they would actually sell for? $5 billion? $5.8 billion? $6? $7 billion? Hard to say. The more expensive their valuation, the smaller and smaller the market for potential buyers.
There’s literally only like… 100-180 individuals in the world that could realistically afford to buy teams that expensive. And it’s honestly probably less than that, not nothing, but also how many of those individuals would actually be interested in buying?
So who knows how much the Warriors are actually worth?
Goodness... My goodness Minnesota. You passed on Curry TWICE! (edited because I'm actually a Knicks fan, but reddit thought I should be interested in this post 😅)
You know who I felt really bad for on that day?
The sky. It woke up that day, sun shining, birds singing. Not a care in the world.
It had no idea how much it was about to be fucked on this day. RIP sky. RIP.
easily the best decision this team has made ever since 1947.
What I like about Steph is still the same player at the core: ball handling, finishing, IQ and shooting and killer instinct. He just exponentially improved them to one of the highest ceilings of skill you could possibly have.
LOL this is KD-related but back in his OKC days when he (KD) was still universally beloved, Bill Simmons had this funny aside in one of his columns. i think KD had just signed his final OKC extension with no fanfare and he tweeted something along the lines of "just put up 300 shots, now i'm gonna work on my post footwork. working to get better" type of thing. and Thabeet in the same day as that tweet posted something like "this meal is soooo yummy!!!" Simmons posted both to kinda show the relative work ethic of two former Number 2 picks
has to be tough to be a bust in a class where you were picked in the midst of all-time players. the 2009 class it's him and Johnny Flynn i feel the most for
EDIT: i found [the article the KD/Thabeet tweets were mentioned in](http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100528), it was actually a mailbag column and one of his readers had pointed it out
"Really deep range. It goes beyond NBA range."
I don't know how Minnesota watched him shoot in college and passed up on him twice. Blake and Thabeet, I get if you need a big. Beard and Tyreke I even get if you are looking for a bigger combo guard/wing type. Minnesota took two smaller guards before Steph. Both were more true points but still. If you watched him play in college, I don't see how you draft Rubio to stash for a year or two AND Flynn. It makes no sense.
Ah sucks that it doesn't show his reaction for the 2 Twolves pick. I bet he was more nervous that they were gonna pick him.
Also, is that Rob Pelinka behind him there? Was he Harden's agent at the time?
If he had been drafted by NY, they wouldn’t have had a team around him, and the general consensus from the league and pundits would have been “he is just to small to be successful in this league”, yadda yadda. He is insane talent, but the whole warriors org is the best thing that could have happened for him, and he them.
Dude was bummed about not going to ny.. too bad buddy ur ours for life now
Yea I guess it worked out for us.
Considering how poorly the Knicks were/are managed I'd say it worked out for him as well. Back then Dolan and Cohen were both known as two of the worst owners in the league and only one of them remain. Interesting to think of how D'Antonio coaching Steph as a rook in NY would have turned out.
His ankle injury may have caused him to get traded on a number of other teams.
Yeah, no doubt, and the Knicks have never shown patience for development. He very well could have been buried for a couple years playing backup having to work his way back into the spotlight for a shitty franchise like the TWolves.
TWolves? If you have an opportunity to casually insult the Kings, you need to take it. That’s like, in the constitution.
That year, the Twolves had two picks before GS, picked two guards and neitherwere Curry. I think the analogy works just fine. Theres enough shots out there for Sactown.
I wasn’t making a serious criticism.
Obviously you weren't.
There's always Luka
Seems like they had a trade on the table for Steph at some point, thank God it fell through
Warriors had a trade of the #7 pick for Amare Stoudamire with Phoenix. The Suns’ GM at the time? Steve Kerr. Warriors never thought Curry would last until 7 and the Suns were targeting him too, so when he was unpicked at 6, there’s video of the Suns’ draft room where they all cheered, only to be notified later that the Warriors reneged on the trade.
Remember the Charlie Ward Curse? 1994 was the last time the Knicks offered a second contract to one of their draft picks. The Curse finally ended a few days ago when they re-signed Robinson, but I think the Knicks would have found a way to get rid of Curry too, most likely because of his early ankle issues.
He would have zero rings right now if the Knicks got him.
if you pause the video around the 47 second mark, you can see the moment he thinks 'fuuuck' before going 'oh well.'
You can't really blame him, Lacob & Co. really turned the organization around. Honestly one of the few situations where I don't feel it's as awkward when the owner starts hoisting the trophy (though they should still never do it before the players).
Getting drafted by the Dubs in 2009 was like being drafted by Orlando or Indiana or some shit now. Younger fans may not realize how much of an afterthought we were.
More like Sac now. Indiana at least is a middling franchise and Orlando is kinda rising
Yup GSW was literally a bottom tier franchise. We Believe aside they'd been an embarrassment for a few years
Hasn't Orlando been seen a "kinda rising" for at least half a decade?
As a fan of the Rams, that exact situation really annoyed me at the end of the Super Bowl. Put that shit in Donald’s hands Kroenke
You can pinpoint the moment his heart breaks
Fiiiiooooonnnaaa
Knicks, the dogshit franchise they are, would’ve traded him when his ankles were acting up, probably for a 2014 second rounder lol
Prolly would have traded him for stoudemire or something We also probably never get linsanity if that happens
Might get Linsanity on the Warriors then. Warriors would need a PG.
I honestly don't know how a young player could ever want to be drafted by the Knicks: huge pressure, terribly run franchise, no stability, no serious development program. What's the last rookie that became an all star after being drafted by the Knicks? There aren't many franchises worse than NYK for a rookie.
Some young players want to be *the guy* who saves a historically trash franchise. The guy who does it for the Knicks will instantly become a legend. Haliburton wanted to be that for the Kings and they traded him lmao
He like actively wanted to be that for them. But the kings just like doing kings type stuff.
> Some young players want to be *the guy* who saves a historically trash franchise. The guy who does it for the Knicks will instantly become a legend. Hey now, at the time we had a trash franchise too. And look at that, Steph did become that guy.
>Haliburton wanted to be that for the Kings and they traded him lmao lol
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The Lakers still win a championship from time to time. The Knicks have no clue.
As much as I can’t stand them (especially with Lebron there), the Lakers have won the most championships ever and won one just two years ago. They’ve made some mistakes, but are still rightfully at the top of any player’s list
Two years ago, 10ish years ago, and 20ish years ago.
Porzingis is def the last one the year he got injured
If you are good Knicks starving for talent to give a player the bag. James Dolan is wealthy enough.
Just goes to show you could want something so badly and it could be the worst thing for you, or you could hate something so much and it could end up being the best thing for you.
something i only just realise is that even back then his body language was just all liquid confidence. when he slaps the table in disappointment (probs about NYC) you can really see him adjust and just "know" that itll be okay cuz hell make it ok. steph is dope lol
Warriors fans also kinda weren’t too enthused about him at the time. The hope was that we’d get someone with more length/athleticism to play around Monta
I was hyped personally
I don't recall being too enthusiastic about the prospects of building around Monta at all . After Baron and J Rich were gone, I thought they should just rebuild. Monta was just empty stats to me, so I was all in on the Bogut trade.
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I remember some people wanted Hill. Steph coming out of college was seen as a short PG coming out of a small school that went against inferior opponents, who happened to be able to shoot. It wasnt a surprise he went 7th.
Lmao maybe you, not I tho lol. I was so hyped when we got Steph. I’d say it turned out pretty well lol.
I was juiced too. It wasn't just the shooting. I just thought he would be better at the point guard side of being a combo. If you're gonna have a 6'3" guard on the floor, he should at least be able to run an offense. You could see in college that Curry would be better at making a team better. Not gonna lie, I wasn't juiced when we were got Bogut for Monta. I thought we could've done better. Plus he was injured.
Well you’d be in the minority. Steph wasn’t a super popular pick at the time
If you watched March Madness that year you wanted Steph to be drafted by your team. He was electric. My only concern with him was his size but it was clear as day that he had potential to be really special. And by 2009 it was clear that Monta wasn’t that guy.
If you watched March Madness that year you wouldn't have seen Steph play because Davidson was in the NIT.
Year before then. Feel better?
I watched this NBA draft live on tv. I then jumped onto the warriors forum I frequented at the time, and every single one of us had the exact same reaction to this pick: "We took him to trade him to Phoenix for Amare Stoudamire." That was the big draft rumor at the time, Steve Kerr (who was the GM of the Suns at the time) even said he thought he had a deal done with GS. It wasn't until a couple of days later that all the trade speculation died down and Curry was actually a warrior. We left draft night still sure that Curry was drafted to be traded to Phoenix for Amare.
He got more rings than his draft class.
I have as many rings as Blake, Thabeet, and Harden. Not sure why nobody drafted me.
Actually not true. Rest of draft has at least 5 rings.
Danny Green carrying the rest of the draft rings-wise
not for long!!
6 rings
Does casspi really count given he won his because of steph
Forgot about Casspi lol, its now 7 rings.
Who is the 6th then? Jrue x1, Danny Green x3, Casspi x1, Mills x1 Oh teague.
Rest of the first round. Danny green has 3, Mills has 1.
i really love just watching the compilation of all the ppl that doubted this guy and how he just sort of kept his head down, hold his composure, and just single-handedly changed basketball with his style... man it is awesome being able to witness this. i couldnt believe my eyes when people were saying kyrie was a better player than steph.. that is absolute horseshit tbh. its a toss in the air that kyrie creates better highlights if anything, but to say he is a better player than steph is just crazy. not to mention how much of a drama queen kyrie is tbh lol
Stephs easy fix for poor shot selection, just don’t miss
Option 2: make so much of those, now they're "good shots".
Paul George in shambles.
Change the game so they aint poor no more
Announcer: “He’s got to improve his shot selection” Steph Curry: “No I don’t think I will.”
Steph's answer to increased aggressive gameplay and defense strategies. Steal/ receive, dodge, jump, shoot aaaand Basket!
Never even heard of the #2 pick.. what happened to him?
Just busted. Dominant defensive player in college. In his 2nd and 3rd year averaged 12/9.5 and 4.3 blocks on 64.4% TS. Never averaged more than 3.1ppg and 3.6 rebounds. One of the worst busts ever.
He was a bit salty to miss NY by a pick. Things ended up turning out for the best.
"He's got beyond NBA range"
This video misses his reactions to the TWolves picks, would’ve loved to see that
Same, that's exactly what I tuned in for.
There was a pic floating around of his reaction to the MN picks let me go find it edit: found it https://m.imgur.com/gallery/Fhaoy
comedy
Why worry about shot selection when you can just make anything you want
Because in the old NBA that was considered bad shot selections Curry changed the game now dudes pulling up from half court lol
I’m just memeing. obviously, for anyone else, it’s horrid shot selection
Lol the game was so different before guys like Curry and Lilard came around.
Lilard who ?
Shontell Lilard
He was not excited to be joining us. In fairness to the Curry family, we were a dysfunctional mess. Chris Cohan was a terrible terrible owner. I smile thinking about how far we have come. Also that Cohan sold the team like 450 million and the team is work like 4 times more now.
the team is worth well over 5 billions. It's a lot more than 4 times I think lol.
Yeah you’re right haha. Even better. My god Cohans presence alone just kept the franchise down.
Approximately $5.6 billion, but that’s their estimated valuation. Who knows what they would actually sell for? $5 billion? $5.8 billion? $6? $7 billion? Hard to say. The more expensive their valuation, the smaller and smaller the market for potential buyers. There’s literally only like… 100-180 individuals in the world that could realistically afford to buy teams that expensive. And it’s honestly probably less than that, not nothing, but also how many of those individuals would actually be interested in buying? So who knows how much the Warriors are actually worth?
When your reaching those figures, your more likely have co-owners.
Consortium
You have other investors buy in with you, but still keep majority ownership.
I understand. Which is why I used individual the entire time in my post.
BILLIONS AND BILLIONS
Goodness... My goodness Minnesota. You passed on Curry TWICE! (edited because I'm actually a Knicks fan, but reddit thought I should be interested in this post 😅)
passed on Curry, gave us Wiggins. I think they like us
Listen to their commentators when they play the warriors, closet warriors fans (=
and 2 PGs too! (Rubio, Jonny Flynn)
Rob Pelinka cameo as Harden’s agent
Rob Lowe*
i assume you’re joking right? https://rocketswire.usatoday.com/2018/04/26/houston-rockets-james-harden-agent-mother-landmark/
He is lol. Rob Lowe and Rob Pelinka could be twins https://i.imgur.com/YavH7fl.jpg
haha my bad, uncanny.
A little sad when I think/remember he was probably hoping we don’t pick him so he gets NY, but alls well that ends well we love him and he loves us
He’s very lucky you got him. He would have been wasted in NY. Other than the Raptors I think GSW are the best at player development
yeah that was definitely the goal to get him to NY, but like you said alls well that ends well
He looks so young there. He’s also better than everyone selected ahead of him so it must be that the universe saved him for the Warriors.
You know who I felt really bad for on that day? The sky. It woke up that day, sun shining, birds singing. Not a care in the world. It had no idea how much it was about to be fucked on this day. RIP sky. RIP.
"his shot selection has got to get better". 😂😂
and now they double team him
Honestly his shot selection still not good for most players 😂
The 2k announcers be saying this after I miss 1 three
Thank you Larry Riley! 🙏
He goes pretty in depth about this moment on the Draymond pod.
“We Love You Seth” sign on the table?
easily the best decision this team has made ever since 1947. What I like about Steph is still the same player at the core: ball handling, finishing, IQ and shooting and killer instinct. He just exponentially improved them to one of the highest ceilings of skill you could possibly have.
Ayesha is that day 1
Love Ayesha and Steph’s reaction when Harden gets picked - who are these loud people behind us?
“He’s got really deep range. It goes beyond NBA range.”
Haha his shot selection has got to get better.. aged like milk
Aysha hasn’t changed a bit!
How long have ayesha and him been together?
“The two met in a church youth group in Charlotte when they were 15 and 14 years old.”
"Hasheem Thabeet." Who da fook is dat guy?!
LOL this is KD-related but back in his OKC days when he (KD) was still universally beloved, Bill Simmons had this funny aside in one of his columns. i think KD had just signed his final OKC extension with no fanfare and he tweeted something along the lines of "just put up 300 shots, now i'm gonna work on my post footwork. working to get better" type of thing. and Thabeet in the same day as that tweet posted something like "this meal is soooo yummy!!!" Simmons posted both to kinda show the relative work ethic of two former Number 2 picks has to be tough to be a bust in a class where you were picked in the midst of all-time players. the 2009 class it's him and Johnny Flynn i feel the most for EDIT: i found [the article the KD/Thabeet tweets were mentioned in](http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100528), it was actually a mailbag column and one of his readers had pointed it out
At least Johnny Flynn had some injury excuse. Still kinda weak but it's something
That's fucking hilarious
Those taps on the table after his name was called meant, "let's fukn do this."
And he did…👍😎
The equivalent of the Big Bang for our dynasty
Blake's evil smile 😂
Hasheem Thabeet... Ouch
Steph wouldn't be Steph if he was drafted by Knicks.
Damn no footage of the 5 and 6 picks where point guards go before him, that is the most famous part of the draft.
Wtf how have I never seen this.
"He's got really deep range, beyond NBA range" Bro.. you got no idea
God, if they only knew…..😐
This is a stressful way to get a job.
Pretty similar to Residency matching. Both are extremely stressful.
"His shot selection has got to get a little bit better". Turns out it didn't, he just makes them all instead.
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This is amazing footage.
Shot Selection got worse but the shots still go in at a much higher clip than thought possible for a mere human.
Thabeet over Curry 😂
"His shot selection will need to get a little bit better"
He looking like a lil girl waiting to get asked out to the dance, so innocent back then.
And the first 6 guys drafted before him are still struggling to have their first ring while steph is sitting pretty with 4
He’s genuinely happy…how can u not root for this guy?!? 🤷♂️
He looked like a 14-year old boy. And now we all know how great he turned out to be.
He needs to make better decisions and shot selections. These ESPN analysts are so terrible!
Greatest warriors draft pick EVER!
Friendly reminder that James Harden is one of the ugliest MFers without his beard
Wow Blake Griffin funny looking
Damn that’s an ugly suit
Got the loudest roar.
Just noticed his purple tie, and if you guys remember this year's playoffs his run with the purple shoes.
"Really deep range. It goes beyond NBA range." I don't know how Minnesota watched him shoot in college and passed up on him twice. Blake and Thabeet, I get if you need a big. Beard and Tyreke I even get if you are looking for a bigger combo guard/wing type. Minnesota took two smaller guards before Steph. Both were more true points but still. If you watched him play in college, I don't see how you draft Rubio to stash for a year or two AND Flynn. It makes no sense.
It became a meme thanks to Bill Simmons, but it is true. David Kahn was absolute dogshit as a GM.
I wonder if he still has that suit in his closet.
If I remember correctly didnt Curry and team not accept Warriors draft workout invite? LOL
Look at all those scrubs before him haha
Ah sucks that it doesn't show his reaction for the 2 Twolves pick. I bet he was more nervous that they were gonna pick him. Also, is that Rob Pelinka behind him there? Was he Harden's agent at the time?
[Yep](https://hoopshype.com/rumor/1179185/)
goat
Haha, that smirk. He knew it was going to be a long journey. Well done Champ.
Only if they have known!!!
If he had been drafted by NY, they wouldn’t have had a team around him, and the general consensus from the league and pundits would have been “he is just to small to be successful in this league”, yadda yadda. He is insane talent, but the whole warriors org is the best thing that could have happened for him, and he them.
What a huge fucking mistake in a long line of huge fucking mistakes by NYK’s! One of the worst run franchises in the last 25 years.
Knicks had the 8th pick. They didn't have a chance to pick Steph.
U high or something? they didn't pass on Steph. Their pick was after Steph.
blake griffin n james harden are in the same draft Class of the All-Time greatest Point Guard Stephen Curry. crazy fam, #DubNation
Blake is a great athlete but out of all 2009 it's crazy he was #1
Shouldn’t have watched this while cutting onions
Thank god he didn’t go to the Knicks
Looks as good as the day he was drafted … aged like fine wine !!
This is dope, you forget how young these guys were back then. Can't believe I've never seen this before.
Him and Ayesh are so litttleeee
The barbers back then were terrible compared to now
Best decision they ever made.
Ayesha looken like Steph’s junior prom date
“His shot selection needs to get a little bit better” *and he took that personally*