Like many Golden State fans, Steph’s 6-year-old kid was upset after the team lost to the Houston Rockets in a heartbreaking fourth quarter.
When his father, Stephen Curry, and the Golden State Warriors fell apart in the fourth quarter of Game 6 against the Houston Rockets on Friday night, Canon Curry and other Golden State Warriors fans were crushed. But Sunday has one more game left, as Steph told his kid.
The Warriors had cut the Rockets’ lead to two points at the start of the fourth quarter. The basketball community and Warriors fans simply expected Curry to surge to take out the Rockets and end the series at home. But that never came to pass, as after an astonishingly surprising 115-107 victory on the road, No. 2 seed Houston thrashed an icy Curry and No. 7 Golden State in the fourth to force a Game 7 meeting.
At the Chase Center in San Francisco, California, where Ayesha and her daughter Riley were dancing to a W, the audience was in a state of shock rather than the usual happy mood.
Steph and Ayesha’s son Canon were there, as were Sonya Curry’s mother and grandmother. After the game, Steph had to stop the six-year-old from crying and clinging to Ayesha as he was making his way to the locker room to tell him that there was still another game to play. The incident was captured on video. That’s how it happened.
Golden State and Steph are currently on a do-or-die journey. Will they blow another 3-1 series lead and end their season in 2016 if they fall to the LeBron-led Cleveland Cavaliers? The fans, Steph, Canon, and the Warriors all earnestly hope not, or else dad will be home the next week with the other kids and Canon.
