A deserved tribute for Dell Curry, who has his No. 30 jersey raised to the Charlotte rafters
Dell Curry was fighting back happy tears Thursday night. The Hornets raised the jersey at halftime of their game with the Orlando Magic, and it'll eventually hang beside the one that immortalizes the Charlotte tenure of Bobby Phills. Curry, currently a TV broadcaster and analyst for the Hornets, was joined by his NBA-playing sons Stephen and Seth — both members of the Golden State Warriors — along with his daughter Sydel, wife Nicki, his mother Juanita, six grandchildren and a number of team officials, including co-chairmen Rick Schnall and Gabe Plotkin, President of Business Operations Shelly Cayette Weston, and President of Basketball Operations Jeff Peterson.
CHARLOTTE, N. C. (AP) — Dell Curry was fighting back happy tears Thursday night.
He knew what was coming. He'd known for the last two months or so that the Charlotte Hornets were finally going to retire his No. 30 jersey, that it was forever going to hang in the rafters as a tribute to the team's first pick in the 1988 expansion draft.
And it still took everything he had, in the moment, to keep his emotions in check. The Hornets raised the jersey at halftime of their game with the Orlando Magic, and it'll eventually hang beside the one that immortalizes the Charlotte tenure of Bobby Phills. “I can’t thank them enough for this.
I’m just a country boy from Grottoes, man,” Curry said, referencing his Virginia hometown. “I had no idea that this was even happening. I’m just playing basketball because I love it and now to have my jersey in (these) rafters besides Bobby, I cannot explain how grateful, blessed, fortunate I am to be here in this moment.
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