How Warriors’ Steph Curry juggled earning his Davidson degree and NBA stardom

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Stephen Curry long had to live with his mother’s gentle jabs that his siblings earned...

After hoisting his final jumper on that late-February night, Curry took the first team bus to Golden State’s hotel, raced to his room, opened his laptop and clicked on a Zoom link. On the screen was Dr. Clark Ross, an economics professor at Davidson College overseeing Curry’s independent-study course — one of the last requirements for his bachelor’s degree in sociology.

In the decade-plus after Stephen left school a year early to declare for the NBA draft, Sonya often went out of her way to mention thatof her three children were college graduates: Seth from Duke and Sydel from Elon. Saturday morning, as she reviewed Stephen’s final grades during a Zoom call with Stephen, Davidson president Carol Quillen, men’s basketball coach Bob McKillop and athletic director Chris Clunie, Sonya said with a smirk, “Now I have nothing to tease Stephen about.

Director of Athletics Chris Clunie and Dr. Clark Ross with the Stephen Curry fathead at the Davidson commencement.By the time the lockout ended in December 2011, Curry had completed three more courses. All that remained between him and a diploma was a research paper on tattoos , a senior thesis and an independent study project.

 

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