The Clippers asked Steph, as the “ultimate expert in popcorn,” to personally select the popcorn flavor that will be served at their new arena. Naturally, he said yes & went to an in-person taste testing of “probably 10 different options” & schooled them on the necessary crunch, shape, & texture. 😂😭
by taygads
@Golden State Warriors
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The Johnny Sins of basketball 😅
The “ultimate expert in popcorn” lol he isn’t even from Chicago
I went to find the [NYTimes article](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/12/sports/basketball/stephen-curry-warriors-popcorn.html) from a few years back where he officially ranked each arena’s popcorn and I forgot how hysterically unhinged it was lolll
> Lesser known is Curry’s routine before the routine, which he plans to uphold in every game of the N.B.A. playoffs — especially when the Warriors are on the road. “Get off the bus, walk into the locker room, put my stuff down, go straight to the popcorn table,” Curry said.
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> Wardell Stephen Curry II, you see, is a self-professed “popcorn addict.” “If it’s really good, I’m eating it before the game, at halftime and after,” Curry said.
> Getting a prescription for contact lenses recently, after years of what he described as “blurry vision,” helped Curry shoot 47.3 percent from the 3-point line in his final 13 games this season — nearly a 5 percentage point increase over his 3-point shooting in all 56 prior games this season. Yet when asked what would play a bigger role in his postseason success — popcorn or his new contacts — Curry scuffled for an answer. “It’s 1A and 1B,” he said.
> Asked by The New York Times earlier this season if he was prepared to officially compile a 1-to-29 ladder for publication, **Curry not only agreed but also suggested scoring five factors on a scale of 1 to 5 to support the rankings: freshness, saltiness, crunchiness, butter and presentation.**
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> For the purity of the pastime, Curry said, he never adds anything to the popcorn to change its appearance, taste or temperature. He also said he “can visualize where the popcorn is” in any arena on the N.B.A. map. “And then the experience comes right back,” Curry said. “It’s sick, bro. It’s a problem.”
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> He spoke with reverence of the dedicated case of fresh popcorn that the Dallas Mavericks had waiting for him just a quick left turn inside the visitors’ locker room at American Airlines Center on Jan. 13. Curry scored 48 points that night.
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> He proudly told the story of Miami Heat ball boys, at the morning shootaround on Feb. 27, assuring him that he would be “impressed by their efforts on the popcorn front” — and then being greeted later that evening by a table with popcorn bags lined up on wood planks under heat lamps.
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> The Warriors’ annual trip to Brooklyn is always circled on his calendar, Curry said, because of the care Matthew Horton, the 6-foot-10 visiting locker room attendant at Barclays Center known as Tiny, takes to have two servings of fresh popcorn waiting in his locker. Barclays’ popcorn finished second in Curry’s rankings, right between No. 1 Dallas and No. 3 Miami.
> Curry’s longtime Splash Brothers backcourt mate, Klay Thompson, noticed him filling out the team-by-team popcorn ballots on a recent Warriors team flight — and found the scene completely normal. “He’s a popcorn snob,” Thompson said.
> [His popcorn habits] are a mild source of strain between Curry and the Warriors’ athletic training staff, because popcorn is not a food item approved of or made available for the team at large before home games. Curry is thus forced to take special measures upon arrival at Oracle Arena on game nights. His go-to move is checking in with the security guard Norm Davis, who is stationed at the door to the Warriors’ inner sanctum, and asking Davis if he’s “got some of that good stuff.” Davis will then send Dwight Pruitt, another security guard, to the nearby owner’s suite to get a freshly popped bag. The teams the Warriors play on the road, by contrast, never create such a struggle. “They want us to fatten up a little before the game,” Curry said.
> At the 2018 All-Star Game in Los Angeles at Staples Center — home to what Curry, by the way, ranks as the league’s most unappetizing popcorn — he was caught on camera on the bench in the third quarter munching on a fresh batch out of a box. “The powers that be came and took it out of my hand,” Curry said, referring to two league officials who told him it was a bad look amid live play to be eating popcorn — even during a game that doesn’t count.
Clips out here trying to recruit curry using popcorn
The one way the league respects him
Excuse me, he’s ours.
Waiting for the Steph going to the Clippers rumors.