Teammates past and present cheer on Dell Curry’s legacy as Hornets retire No. 30 jersey
Two of the people just as excited to watch Dell Curry’s jersey raised to the rafters are his teammates of the past and present. For nearly every Charlotte Hornets game, Dell sits side by side with broadcast partner eric collins. While back in the day, he played with fellow original Hornet Muggsy Bogues for most of both their careers.
They’re both teammates, and at different times, but Bogues and Collins share this: their regard for their friend, Dell, is through the rafters. “Thirty is a really important number. In the basketball world, for years, 23 was the most important number that everyone knew and oh my God, this is Michael’s number; but now, 30 is iconic,” Collins said.
Collins and Curry have shared the Hornets call for years, to the point fans who tune in now hear two friends. Collins says he was a fan, first. “We are close in age, [I] was a huge basketball fan back in the ’80s.
It was my passion … the most important thing, and he got traded to my hometown team," Collins said. “I got a chance to watch him, and his shot was so pure, and then one year after the expansion draft happens and the Cavaliers left him open for the expansion draft, and of course, the Hornets pick him up, so he was out of my life. ” As that chapter closed, this one was just getting started.
“What would go through your mind as you put the ball in his hands? ” Channel 9’s DaShawn Brown asked. “Well you know Dell and I played ...