High school highlights of superstar athletes have become en vogue. Whenever someone wins an award, some website (occasionally this one) will trot out their high school mixtape to showcase what they were like as a high school senior. Heres a hint: Typically they completely overwhelmed their opponents. Not a big surprise.
So, why go down this road? Were raising this as a caveat to the video you see above, which are youthful highlights of new NBA MVP Stephen Curry, with a strong emphasis on youthful.
Those arent Stephen Currys high school highlights (if you want to see those, click here). Those are Stephs middle school highlights, when he was a truly undersized point guard at the Toronto-area school Queensway Christian College. Well, the video isnt so much season-long highlights as it the better points from an exhibition game in which Currys undefeated Queensway Christian College team took on a team helmed by his father, then-NBA sharpshooter Dell Curry.
According to a profile on Currys time in the country by the Toronto Star, his skills as a middle schooler were as self-evident as they are today. Perhaps even more so.
He was this tiny little guy, but when we put him on the court he was just unbelievable. He was scoring 40 points, 50 points a game, no problem, James Lackey, the history teacher who coached the Queensway Christian College teamin 2001-02, told the Star. No one even came close to us that year.
Want more proof of his middle school dominance? Check out this story, again from Lackey:
Looking back on that season, the big moment that sticks out for Field and Lackey is the final game of a tournament at Mentor College, a private school in Mississauga. The Saints were down by eight points with about a minute left in the championship game, an undefeated season on the line against Hillcrest Jr. Public School.
Huddled on the sidelines with his players, Lackey was exasperated. I tell them: Guys, I think were going to lose. I am out of ideas. I have nothing left to give you on how to beat these guys.
Then Curry piped up. Give me the ball.
Coach goes, All right, (teammate Casey) Field recalled, just give him the ball.
Next thing you know, Curry hits a three, gets a steal, hits another three, Field hits a three, Curry hits another three. Ive never seen anything like it, Lackey said. We ended up winning the game. It was a 13-point swing-around and it was entirely because of him.
If the Warriors follow the same path on the NBA level this year, there will be little question who got them there, either.
Source: http://usatodayhss.com/2015/video-forget-high-school-watch-stephen-curry-take-on-his-dad-as-an-eighth-grader
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