Steph Curry had his finest performance of the 2018 NBA Playoffs to date Sunday night, dropping 35 points on the Rockets in a Game 3 blowout. It was an emotional crescendo for the former MVP, who at one point in the third quarter and with his team building an insurmountable lead, drained a runner in the paint, then pulled out his mouthpiece and screamed to the fans at Oracle Arena “this is my f---ing house!”
Steph Curry’s mom wants to ‘wash [his] mouth with soap’ after he used the F-word on live TV
Screaming “this is my f—-ing house!” riled up Warriors fans, including Mrs. Curry.
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That riled up the Bay Area crowd, but there was at least one Warriors fan who wasn’t on board — Curry’s mother.
“She already sent me two home videos, showing me the clip and playing it back,” Curry told ESPN after the game. “She was telling me how I need to wash my mouth out, saying to wash it out with soap. It’s a message I’ve heard before.
“She’s right. I gotta do better. I can’t talk like that.”
Curry can’t be blamed for getting caught up in the moment. An ankle injury kept him from being his typical game-changing self earlier in the postseason. He missed the entirety of his team’s five-game first-round win over the Spurs, While he’d averaged 22 points per game since returning in the Western Conference semifinals, he’d made just one of his 20 three-point attempts in 10 quarters of play against Houston.
That slump ended in the third quarter Sunday evening. Curry exploded for his biggest performance since February 22 in a statement game. The Rockets came to Oakland needing an upset win to regain home court advantage in the conference finals. Curry’s monster performance — he had 26 points after halftime and missed just three shots — was a testament to the strength that threatens to make the Warriors a dynasty.
Or, in simpler terms, the performance was proof Oracle Arena is Curry’s “f---ing house”, even if his mother may not approve of the language.
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