All summer long, Steph Curry has been showered with awards and celebrations after willing the Warriors to another NBA championship. On Wednesday, the NBA Finals MVP was honored once again — only this time, it was for what he’s done off the court.
Steph Curry, the graduate ?“
The Warriors star is being honored by Davidson today with a mini-graduation, hall of fame induction, and jersey retirement ?‘?
While Davidson College held its commencement for the class of 2022 in mid-May, the school held another ceremony on Wednesday for just a single graduate, none other than their most famous alum: Curry. It took place in John M. Belk Arena, the very building the basketball star made a name for himself during his college career.
13 years after entering the NBA, Stephen Curry is a college grad.
Stephen completed his final semester of coursework this spring and will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Sociology from Davidson College.
Congrats to the Class of 2022! pic.twitter.com/R3giuMtPDx
Curry attended Davidson from 2006 to 2009, including a 2008 Cinderella run to the Elite Eight. Though he left school before graduating, he famously promised his mother, Sonya Curry, that he would finish the degree. Thirteen years later, he finally completed his bachelor's in sociology. (This spring, while the Warriors were on their title run, he wrote a thesis on gender equality and sports.)
Fresh off a victory over the Memphis Grizzlies and headed to Dallas to play in the Western Conference Finals, Curry was unable to join his classmates for the initial celebration. However, this ceremony seemed much more grand — and again, for just one person.
Davidson is hosting a legit full graduation for Curry, who is the lone graduate pic.twitter.com/7stqsN5afP
— Marcus Thompson II (@ThompsonScribe) August 31, 2022In front of a near-capacity crowd of 5,000 people, Curry was finally handed his diploma, a moment Sonya Curry described as a “dream come true” during her speech at the event. The festivities did not stop there, though. The school also inducted the four-time NBA champion into the Davidson Athletics Hall of Fame and retired his jersey to be hung up in the rafters, something the school made clear wouldn’t happen until he graduated.
Davidson’s graduation ceremony is just the latest fanfare in what has been an eventful off-season for the Warriors superstar, leaving big events like this to feel like commonplace for those close to Curry. Nonetheless, it’s a feat that has enabled rivalries to be put aside in favor of support from even his biggest competitors, including Celtics forward Grant Williams. Williams appeared in a video congratulating Curry on Wednesday. "I wore 30 in high school because of you," Williams said. "And I’m not wearing a ring because of you.”
With a degree added to his already-impressive resume, Curry can finally put his college career to sleep 13 years after putting it on pause. Thankfully, Davidson’s president Doug Hicks is helping with that.
Even President @DougAHicks knows...NIGHT NIGHT 😴#CurryFor3 pic.twitter.com/xTCmitnedh
— Davidson Basketball (@DavidsonMBB) August 31, 2022
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