{"id":735854,"date":"2026-05-16T11:39:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/735854\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:39:27","slug":"stephen-curry-shares-reaction-to-warriors-drafting-him-trying-to-figure-out-exactly-where-golden-state-was-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/735854\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Curry Shares Reaction To Warriors Drafting Him: \u201cTrying To Figure Out Exactly Where Golden State Was\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Golden State Warriors<\/a> made the greatest decision in franchise history when they selected Stephen Curry<\/a> with the seventh pick in the 2009 NBA Draft. The Warriors weren\u2019t on Curry\u2019s radar pre-draft, though, and he spoke about that night on the Fudd Around And Find Out<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know how long the night was going to be,\u201d Curry said. \u201cAnd so you\u2019re there for two hours before David Stern, at the time, the commissioner, before he even walked out. And so there were a lot of fans in there, a lot of New York fans, which is pretty awesome.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy favorite moment is how loud they booed when Golden State selected me at number seven,\u201d Curry continued. \u201c\u2026 They boo like crazy, and I\u2019m trying to have that moment, but I couldn\u2019t get that distraction out of my head. It\u2019s like, \u2018Are they booing?\u2019 I was like, \u2018Oh no, they really wanted me. I got it.\u2019 That took me a second. Because in that moment, there\u2019s just so many thoughts going on.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut yeah, getting that call from Larry Riley, the GM at the time, Don Nelson, who was the coach at the time,\u201d Curry added. \u201cGetting that call and being like, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re looking forward to having you. I\u2019m excited.\u2019 And then me quickly looking at my phone trying to figure out exactly where Golden State was. It was like all I was thinking about was New York. But careful what you wish for. I\u2019m glad it went my way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Golden State is, of course, the official nickname for the state of California. Curry\u2019s not knowing that shows just how little interest he had in going to the Warriors. He didn\u2019t even work out with them before the draft.<\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t have blamed Curry or any other player for not wanting to go to the Warriors at the time. They had made the playoffs just once in the 15 seasons before he was drafted. The Warriors had a couple of 40-win seasons in the mid-to-late 2000s, but this wasn\u2019t a franchise that screamed competence.<\/p>\n

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Now, the New York Knicks<\/a> weren\u2019t exactly all too competent either, but you\u2019re talking about the biggest market in the U.S. Going there would open doors that would be closed if Curry went elsewhere. He had also shone at Madison Square Garden in college, scoring 27 points in Davidson\u2019s 68-65 win over West Virginia in 2008.<\/p>\n

The Knicks fans wanted Curry, and he wanted to go as well. Those dreams looked set to become reality after the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> passed on him with the fifth and sixth picks. All that stood between Curry and the Knicks, who had the eighth pick, were the Warriors. Unfortunately for New Yorkers, they picked him.<\/p>\n

As Curry said, things worked out eventually. He missed time with injuries earlier in his career, but gradually emerged as a dominant force. The Warriors also surrounded Curry with the likes of Klay Thompson<\/a>, Draymond Green<\/a>, and Andre Iguodala<\/a>. They even managed to bring in Kevin Durant<\/a> for three seasons.<\/p>\n

Curry was given the tools to take the Warriors to the Promised Land, and he delivered. He has won four titles, one Finals MVP, two MVPs, and two scoring titles in his career.<\/p>\n

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All of this success has led to the Warriors\u2019 value skyrocketing. Forbes had them as the NBA\u2019s most valuable franchise at $11 billion<\/a> in December 2025. Keep in mind, Joe Lacob and a group of investors purchased the Warriors for $450 million in 2010. Talk about hitting the jackpot with Curry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Warriors made the greatest decision in franchise history when they selected Stephen Curry with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3786],"tags":[5500,7,200,479,164,4025,4024,938,498,152,6,191,573,255],"class_list":["post-735854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golden-state-warriors","tag-andre-iguodala","tag-basketball","tag-draymond-green","tag-golden-state","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-goldenstate","tag-goldenstatewarriors","tag-kevin-durant","tag-klay-thompson","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-stephen-curry","tag-warriors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116584065515509924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735854","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=735854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}