Stephen, Ayesha Curry celebrate birth of second daughter, Ryan Carson
It can’t be easy to come up with an appropriate capper for a year in which you were named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player, won the NBA championship and entrenched yourself as one of the league’s premier new standard-bearers. But Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry found one heck of an encore on Friday night, when he and his wife, Ayesha, celebrated the birth of their second daughter.
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Just two weeks removed from draining NBA-range 3-pointers while nine months pregnant, Ayesha managed an even more impressive feat in bringing “little Ryan Carson Curry” into the world “perfectly healthy and happy,” as she wrote Sunday at her personal website, Little Lights Of Mine:
She arrived a little early through a quick 3 hour labor and was a small 6lbs 1 oz. I was able to birth her naturally without an epidural. This is something I’ve always wanted to do and was so happy to get through it with the help of my darling husband and amazing doctor. This time around I felt more prepared and was able to take in the entire process. It was a miracle!
Dad, for his part, seemed awfully impressed by Ayesha’s wherewithal:
My wife is a champ!
— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) July 11, 2015
Must run in the family.
The healthy arrival of Ryan means that the breakout star of the 2015 NBA postseason, Steph and Ayesha’s two-year-old daughter Riley Curry, is now a big sister. (“This of course means that in two years we can gin up a new controversy about which Curry progeny should be ruining press conferences,” joked CSN Bay Area’s Ray Ratto.) Mom says she’s adjusting to the new gig well.
“Riley is completely enamored with her little sister and has taken on her role as big sister beautifully,” Ayesha wrote. “I am already so proud of her!”
That’s wonderful news. Congratulations to the Curry family on expanding from a power trio to a fabulous four-piece. Warriors fans everywhere can only hope to see Riley schooling Ryan in the finer points of confetti collection in the years to come.
And now, for no other reason than because I think they were pretty great, here are Steph’s pre-Finals comments on what being a father has taught him:
Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for. I think off the court, it just grounds you every day, because no matter if I have a good game, bad game, score 40, score 10, I think my daughter’s going to be happy to see me when I get home, and that kind of makes everything all right.
So I rarely ever have a bad day, regardless of what happens on the court. It just gives you something more than basketball to kind of play and live for, and it’s pretty special. Obviously, every father would say pretty much the same thing about what their daughter or son means to them and how they impact their life.
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