NY Post · Jan 23, 2020
Steph Curry desperately wanted Knicks to draft him: ‘Thought I was going’
Steph Curry wanted to be a Knick.
The three-time NBA champion recalled the night he was drafted No. 7 overall in 2009 on a recent episode of Showtime’s “All the Smoke,” podcast admitting that he had his sights set on the Big Apple.
“I wanted to go to New York and thought I was going to New York,” Curry said. “At the draft — in the green room — like, ‘Oh, get to the eight spot and New York can get me.’
“And then I got the call from (then-Warriors GM) Larry Riley, like ‘We’re going to pick you in the seventh spot.'”
One pick later, the Knicks went with Arizona forward Jordan Hill, who was then traded away in the midst of his rookie season.
