Certified scoring-machine Steph Curry had a fairy-tale run with the Davidson Wildcats in 2008.
Curry spent three years at Davidson and had a March Madness for the ages in the 2008 NCAA Tournament when he balled out and led the Wildcats to the Elite Eight.
The Warriors superstar averaged 25.3 points per game in his three seasons with Davidson, but it could have been a lot more if it wasn’t for one mistake.
In an episode of Complex’s Sneaker Shopping, the four-time NBA champion revealed he wore size 14 shoes when he was younger because he wanted to wear the same size as his father, Dell.
Dell Curry was a sharpshooter who played in the NBA for 16 seasons, most famously for the Charlotte Hornets.
However, the shoes were clearly too big for Curry and he joked it might have cost him 10 points per game.
“Pops played in the league, he wore a size 14,” Curry said on the episode.
“I had a bigger foot as a kid growing up, but definitely nowhere [near] 14, but I convinced myself that I was a 14 so I can rock all his shoes.”
“Then [I] just got used to the feel of it being too big,” Curry continued.
He then revealed that he wore that size all the way up until his first season in the NBA with Golden State.
“And then eventually I tricked myself into thinking that… All the way to my rookie year in the league I said I wore 14,” Curry went on.
“There’s a picture of me in a pre-season game in my rookie year and I’m like cutting to the basket, you can see the whole toe box is like flipped over.”
“I was at [size] 12 and a half the whole time from high school on,” Curry added.
“But yeah I was rocking 14s in Charlotte Christian, all the way to Davidson, all the way through my rookie year in the league.
“I could have had like 10 more points a game,” he joked.
However, the two-time MVP added that wearing oversized shoes didn’t actually have that much of an impact on him and he was able to play at a high level regardless.
“It didn’t have any effect really,” Curry stated.
“Because I had a crazy college career, obviously tournament run and all that, rocking 14s.”
Steph still managed to show out in college and made himself a household name after that Cinderella run in 2008.
In 2009 he declared for the NBA Draft and was selected 7th overall by the Golden State Warriors where he remains today.
During his 15 seasons in the league, the generational guard has won four championships, two MVPs, a Finals MVP and two scoring titles, while being named to ten All-Star games and nine All-NBA teams.
More importantly perhaps, Steph changed the game of basketball like no other player in the modern era.
His shooting and marksmanship revolutionised the NBA and turned it into a predominantly three-point shooting league.
Curry, 36, is the all-time leader in three-pointers made in NBA history with 3,687 and counting.
He also has 23,360 career points, which places him 30th on the all-time list, one place behind Charles Barkley in 29th place with 23,757 points.
Steph is undoubtedly one of the greats of the game and a first ballot Hall of Famer whenever he decides to hang up his jersey up for good.