Steph Curry revolutionized the sport of basketball.
And he’s additionally Adam Silver’s good embodiment and imaginative and prescient of what a famous person is meant to appear like.
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The NBA commissioner appeared on KNBR 680’s “Murph & Markus” to advertise the All-Star Weekend in San Francisco and was requested what involves thoughts when he thinks about basketball within the Bay Space.
“Most not too long ago, I feel championships,” Silver mentioned.
“I take into consideration the Chase Middle and all the things Joe Lacob and Peter Guber have carried out since taking up the group
“After all, I am all the time centered on Steph’s who’s a commissioner’s dream.
“Along with being an unbelievable participant, only a pleasure to cope with and does wonderful issues locally. So many optimistic tales have come out of your neighborhood over time.”
Silver famous that the best shooter in basketball historical past has made his job a breeze.
Comparatively talking.
“[He] makes my job straightforward, actually,” Silver mentioned.
“He travels within the offseason, he goes in every single place.
“I feel he performs, most significantly, with actual pleasure.
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“Along with the success he is had, he is so relatable as a participant. I feel a component, not suggesting he is small, however he is not a large like loads of NBA gamers, so I feel children actually relate to him.
“I truly suppose the expansion we have seen in girls’s basketball is instantly related to Steph, too, as a result of he performs beneath the rim.
“He performs a really relatable model of basketball.”
Curry has impacted not solely the lads’s sport, but in addition the ladies’s, as Silver talked about.
The Caitlin Clarks and Sabrina Ionescus of the world have all taken a few of their sport from Curry.
And it is paid off.
Actually.
Final July the WNBA introduced a brand new 11-year media rights deal that options partnerships with Disney, Amazon Prime Video and new rights holder NBCUniversal.
The deal is valued at a virtually $2.2 billion.
Roughly $200 million per yr.
It is due to the likes of the Clarks, Ionescus, Angels Reeses, A’ja Wilsons and Breanna Stewarts.
They’ve taken the ladies’s sport and grown it exponentially.
And you’ll even take it a step additional, and provides a refined nod to Curry as nicely.
He has been a loud advocate of the WNBA and has impacted the present era of feminine hoopers.
And the proof is within the pudding.
Or on this case, the quantity of greenback indicators hooked up to the ‘W’ in entrance of the NBA.