Steph Curry Publicly Defends Wife Ayesha After Former NBA Stars and His Ex-Teammate Call Her a ‘Blemish’Anna
Steph and Ayesha Curry arrive at 2022 Sports Illustrated Sportsperson Of The Year Awards on December 08, 2022 in San Francisco, California.Credit: Miikka Skaffari/Getty
Steph Curry is defending his wife Ayesha Curry
The NBA star shared a video on Instagram on Wednesday in which he called out comments from former NBA star Gilbert Arenas and Curry’s former teammate Nick Young
Arenas and Young said on their We Said What We Said podcast that Ayesha should stay away from the spotlight
Steph Curry is rejecting the idea that his wife Ayesha Curry needs to stay on the sidelines.
In a video shared on social media on Wednesday, Nov. 11, the NBA star defended his wife of 15 years after his former teammate Nick Young and retired NBA star Gilbert Arenas said on their podcast We Said What We Said that she was a “blemish” on the Curry family.
“Usually the noise doesn’t bother me, it doesn’t bother Ayesha, but this one in particular, when you’re trying to step on the accomplishments of my wife and, you know, obviously needing podcasts, tapings and topics and giving opinions on somebody else’s wife,” Curry, 38, began. “Nick, Gil, Emmanuel, and anybody else who feels the need to wanna have to, you know, jump in and give an opinion of something you don’t really know about, something that kinda speaks to a bigger conversation on how you view women in this world and what they’re allowed and what they’re not allowed to do.”
Ayesha and Stephen Curry attend Stephen Curry’s A Night With Unanimous Media in Feb. 2026Credit: Jerritt Clark/Getty for Unanimous Media
He continued, “Even the ignorance behind how acting works. Obviously I tried to laugh this one off, but, you know, something needs to be said and, you know, anytime Ayesha Curry shows up in your headline, I kindly suggest you just give the, you know, the happy hands, the congratulations.”
Curry’s comments come after Arenas let fly his opinion about Ayesha’s role in the movie Second Chance Holiday.
On Arenas’ podcast, the former Washington Wizards player — who infamously was involved in a locker room fight with a teammate that involved guns in 2009 — called out Ayesha’s behavior.
“He is the definition of what everybody sees as a father,” Arenas, 44, said, as Young — Curry’s former teammate on the Warriors during the 2017-2018 season — could be heard agreeing. “The only blemish in the family is the wife, in the sense, that she doesn’t act like the other superstars’ wives.”
Arenas then added that Ayesha doesn’t act like “Jordan’s wife,” Magic Johnson’s wife Cookie or LeBron James’ wife Savannah.
“We don’t want to hear you,” he continued. “We just want to know you’re there, you’re fine. You’re taking the pictures. But we don’t want to know you.”
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Arenas then added that Ayesha “goes in DMs” to “chat with dudes,” because “she needs their attention.”
For the 12-time All-Star, the unwelcome criticism could be resolved in the same way it began.
“The apology can be as loud as, you know, y’all leading y’all shows with this topic,” Curry said.
Source: Entertainment
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