It’s the matchup that couldn’t have worked out any better for the NBA: The NBA Finals pitting the Golden State Warriors and Stephen Curry against the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James, the two guys who have millions of Twitter followers and Facebook likes and who are so fun to watch on the floor.
James has been in the spotlight since high school, but for Curry, this new-found fame has been an adjustment.
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Even his mother Sonya Curry, who says like the rest of those close to Curry that he has maintained his humble character throughout, admitted she’s surprise by his popularity.
“Yes, yes,” she said according to USA TODAY Sports’ Sam Amick and Jeff Zillgitt this week. “It’s moreso when we go back to Myrtle Beach (in South Carolina), where we go every year. We’ve been going since they were little. Now we go to walk down, and we can’t. That just blows our minds. We’re like, ‘These people know him. They’ve been seeing him (since he was a child).’ You can’t go in the candy shop. Some of that is a little hard to get used to, because we’ve just been used to doing it. So yeah, it surprises me a little.”
