Golden State Warriors All-Star Stephen Curry defends his wife, Ayesha Curry, after former NBA guard Gilbert Arenas made disparaging remarks on his What She Said podcast. After the release of Ayesha Curry's “Second Chance Holiday”, Arenas made some questionable comments about Steph's wife and her role as the future Hall of Fame guard's wife.

Curry defended his wife by posting a video on Instagram to address Arenas and the rest of his podcast hosts, per NBA Central's X, formerly Twitter.

“Usually the noise doesn't bother me; it doesn't bother Ayesha. But this one in particular, when you're trying to step on the accomplishments of my life, and obviously, needing podcast taping, topics, and giving opinions on somebody else's wife — Nick, Gil, Emmanuel, and anybody else who feels the need to have to jump in and give an opinion on something you don't really know about,” Curry said.

“Kind of speaks to a bigger conversation on how you view women in this world and what they’re allowed and what they’re not allowed to do. Even the ignorance behind how acting works, obviously, I tried to laugh this one off, but something had to be said.”

Warriors' Stephen Curry politely asked Arenas and the rest of his co-hosts to keep negative comments about Ayesha to themselves.

“Anytime Ayesha Curry shows up in your headline, I'd kindly suggest you just give the happy hands, a congratulations, and maybe, just maybe, the apology can be as loud as ya'll leading ya'll show with this topic,” Curry added. “Appreciate the free pub. Thank you for giving a nice shoutout to “Second Chance Holiday,” which ya'll can find on Roku, starring Ayesha Curry.”

Steph Curry calls out Nick Young, Gilbert Arenas, and everyone else talking about Ayesha Curry, telling them to keep his wife’s name out of their mouths 😳

“Kind of speaks to a bigger conversation on how you view women in this world and what they’re allowed and what they’re not… pic.twitter.com/OzHluxC6rI

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Arenas pointed out that Ayesha isn't staying out of the limelight as the wife of past NBA legends, such as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Philadelphia 76ers' LeBron James, in a recent episode of the What She Said podcast.

“When you're talking about ‘American Family,' right? He is the definition of what everybody sees as a father,” Arenas said. “The only blemish in the family is the wife, in the sense that she doesn't act like the other superstars' wives. Jordan's wife, Magic's wife, Savannah [LeBron James' wife]. We don't wanna hear you… We don't wanna know you.”

Nick Young, a co-host of the What She Said podcast, was Curry's teammate during the 2017-18 season.