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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.