Stephen Curry was a kid who loved to play basketball. His father played it. He spent his childhood stroking jumpers on every circle this side of a Hula Hoop.
But as a 6-foot-2, 160-pound shooting senior in high school, his college options were as limited as the foresight of those making the decision.
“He couldn’t get anyone to recruit him,” McCallie School coach John Shulman said after hearing that Curry, the kid almost no one wanted, was named the NBA Most Valuable Player on Monday. “It was Davidson and that’s it. It’s such an inexact science, and really we have no idea.”
“He cost my good friend Seth Greenberg his job.”
As the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga head coach, Shulman had a front-row seat as Curry became the best Southern Conference basketball player of the last 50 years. He was there when Curry hit a three-quarter-court shot at the Roundhouse that was amazing but not all that surprising.