Do you want your feel good story of All-Star weekend?
Here is it is courtesy of Steph Curry.
Event spaces and potential modern lofty gallery layouts were considered. Under Armour eventually sent a handful of team members from Baltimore to further dive into the city’s history and begin mapping out its All-Star parties and other arrangements.
Then, the two-time MVP declared a firm aim for the weekend, some 18 months away: No party. No event space. Selling shoes shouldn’t even be a focus.
Put the entire budget into renovating Curry’s old rec center instead, the All-Star guard said.
“Stephen’s overall focus as we look at 2019 and beyond is how can he leave something behind that’s meaningful and useful,” said Kris Stone, Under Armour’s director of basketball sports marketing. “That’s been his main point and challenge to us. Whether it’s in the Bay Area, Charlotte or even in Asia, that’s his goal.”
In what has been deemed a “seven-figure commitment” from among the Stephen and Ayesha Curry Family Foundation, Under Armour and sponsor Chase Bank, the family will be fully renovating the 20-year-old center, in one of the biggest undertakings of its kind. The NBA Players Association will also be donating a total of $150,000 over the next three years toward the revitalization project.
“We picked the Carole Hoefener Center for a specific reason,” Stephen Curry said. “Their priorities are very similar to our family’s, in terms of giving people equal opportunities in education, access to knowledge about nutrition and wellness and having a safe and inspiring place to play.”
Rather than host an All-Star party Friday night, Curry was joined for the official reopening ceremony by his parents, Dell and Sonya; wife Ayesha; brother Seth and his fiancée, Callie Rivers, daughter of LA Clippers head coach Doc Rivers; and sister Sydel with her husband, Damion Lee, Stephen’s teammate. Also on hand were North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles.
“It’s easy to throw a party and have fun,” Dell Curry said. “But to put the dollars back in the community, and have something that will last long after the All-Star Game is over — that party is just a one-night thing.”
Said Stone: “How can we leave something that’s much more beneficial than an open bar?”
This is something that will be cherished for many years and that is how you leave a legacy that goes far beyond that the Currys are doing on the court.
Good for him.
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