Stephen Curry's Childhood

There were too many bears roaming the woods behind the house and, with four daughters, far too many Barbies inside. Just before the school year ended in the early 1970s in Grottoes, Virginia, Wardell "Jack" Curry needed a solution, and fast. All he wanted was a way to keep his only son, Dell, occupied by something other than deadly animals or dolls during the long summer days ahead.

Sonya Curry's day will begin in Durham, N.C., with a 9:30 a.m. graduation ceremony at Duke University for her son Seth, her first child to earn a college degree. It will continue with a celebratory family lunch and finish at Seth's apartment, where the family will watch her older son's team play in a critical Game 4 for the Warriors against the San Antonio Spurs.

Stephen Curry is an icon. Within the narrow context of the NBA he is the best player on the league's best team, an obvious MVP candidate who received more All-Star votes this year than any other player in the league.

Stephen Curry is an icon. Within the narrow context of the NBA he is the best player on the league's best team, an obvious MVP candidate who received more All-Star votes this year than any other player in the league.

As with many of the players at the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League this weekend, Jones logic is rooted in seeing the success of two-time reigning NBA MVP and world champion Stephen Curry.

Charlotte Christian High School has put together this short, outstanding highlight reel of young Stephen Curry. It turns out he always had a ridiculously high level of talent. Even now, he makes a lot of NBA players look like high schoolers. It's pretty cruel what he did to actual high schoolers way back when.

There are slideshows on the Internet of the house, stately and fountained, where Stephen Curry lived as a boy - the house his parents built in 1996, the year Steph turned 8, on a 16-acre plot a few minutes drive from the center of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Without question, the singular breakout performer of the NBA postseason has been Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry.

Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry has three gold medals under his belt as a member of USA Basketball, first as a member of the USA U19 National Team at the 2007 Global Games, then in 2010 with the USA Basketball Men's National Team at the FIBA World Championship and most recently as a member of the 2014 USA World Cup Championship Team.

The reigning NBA MVP and current MVP frontrunner Stephen Curry turned 28 on Monday, and to celebrate, we have 28 facts about him.