The New York Knicks will always have to wonder “what if” when it comes to Stephen Curry. The two-time MVP and three-time NBA champion was taken one spot before the Knicks picked Jordan Hill.
On Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s podcast—“All The Smoke”—Curry tells the story of how he wanted to be drafted by the Knicks. In fact, Curry expected to be heading to New York with the eighth pick before the Golden State Warriors swooped in to draft him.
Welp. Today is ruined for @WorldWideWob, as Steph Curry explicitly told Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on “All the Smoke” that he wanted to get drafted by the Knicks: “I wanted to go to New York and thought I was going to New York.