{"id":669678,"date":"2026-03-20T23:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/669678\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:32:55","slug":"steph-curry-sits-front-row-at-hornets-game-to-watch-dad-dells-no-30-hit-rafters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/669678\/","title":{"rendered":"Steph Curry Sits Front Row at Hornets Game to Watch Dad Dell\u2019s No. 30 Hit Rafters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Steph Curry<\/a> didn\u2019t drop 30 \u2026 he watched the original No. 30 go up.<\/p>\n

The NBA superstar had the night off Thursday — but instead of resting up, he pulled up courtside in Charlotte to watch his dad, Dell Curry<\/a>, get his jersey retired by the Hornets.<\/p>\n

And yeah \u2026 full-circle doesn\u2019t even begin to cover it.<\/p>\n

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Steph — who has become a global icon in the same No. 30 — sat front row as the man who wore it first in Charlotte saw his number rise into the rafters at Spectrum Center.<\/p>\n

Dell, clearly overwhelmed in the moment, fought back tears as he addressed the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just a country boy from Grottoes, man,\u201d he said. \u201cI cannot explain how grateful, blessed, fortunate I am to be here in this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Steph had a courtside view of the legacy he literally grew up in.<\/p>\n

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This wasn\u2019t just a quick pop-in either \u2026 the whole Curry crew showed up. Seth<\/a>, Sydel, Dell\u2019s\u00a0wife Nicki, the grandkids — it turned into a full family celebration as Charlotte honored one of its most important figures ever.<\/p>\n

Afterward, Steph kept it simple: \u201cThe originator is in the rafters forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s really what made the night hit.<\/p>\n

Before the MVPs, before the championships, before Steph made No. 30 famous worldwide \u2026 Dell was doing it first in Charlotte — building the Hornets from the ground up as their original expansion pick back in 1988.<\/p>\n

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Dell’s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 speaks for itself \u2026 the 1994 Sixth Man of the Year spent 10 seasons with the Hornets. When he left, he was the team\u2019s all-time leader in games played, points, and 3-pointers — and he still holds the franchise record for games while ranking near the top in scoring and threes.<\/p>\n

Now, decades later, the shared family number is officially untouchable in the city where it all started.<\/p>\n

Not many jersey retirements come with a sequel.<\/p>\n

This one came with a courtside seat \u2026 and the son who made that number legendary was watching the man who made it possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Steph Curry didn\u2019t drop 30 \u2026 he watched the original No. 30 go up. The NBA superstar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,17027,685,6,932,11510],"class_list":["post-669678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-charlotte-hornets","tag-basketball","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-charlottehornets","tag-dell-curry","tag-hornets","tag-nba","tag-steph-curry","tag-the-hornets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116264122402816034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}