Stephen Curry wants you to know his awful shoes are actually cool
NBA MVP Stephen Curry finally broke out in the NBA Finals on Friday with 38 points in the Golden State Warriors’ highly impressive Game 4 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. Yet going up 3-1 in the series and putting himself in decent position to claim his first Finals MVP trophy did not allow Curry to transcend the sharpest criticism that came his way last week.
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That’s because Under Armour’s Curry 2 Low “Chef Curry,” the latest incarnation of Steph’s signature sneakers, still exist. The basketball and comedy internets combined prior to Game 4 to lambast the mostly white, entirely boring sneakers with seemingly endless jokes labeling them as better suited for an out-of-touch dad or hard-working registered nurse. No 38-point game can end that talk. This kind of mockery lasts forever.
Nevertheless, Curry is doing his best to convince the world that his shoes are totally cool even for those who do not require them to serve an orthopedic function. He said in his post-game press conference that he would have worn them for Game 4 if he’d had them on hand, and it seemed likely that he would don them for Monday’s Game 5 in an effort to, as he put it, show us “how fire they are.”
Curry wore the “Chef Curry” during Sunday’s practice in keeping with that expectation. But he added a little message to them:
Yes, that’s Steph trying to tell us all that his shoes are “straight fire.” And while we have to admit that the sneakers are just dull in the wild as opposed to straight-up terrible, writing that they’re cool is pretty much the worst way to convince anyone that they are. It also doesn’t help that the red in the little fire drawing is the only color on the shoe — it only emphasizes just how boring they are.
It’s a nice try with very little success. As usual, Steph will have to win everyone over on the court, where he really is as exciting as he’d like his signature sneakers to be.
Come to think of it, maybe he should just write “straight fire” on his forehead. That’s where it belongs.
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Eric Freeman is a writer for Ball Don’t Lie on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter!
