Steph Curry reps UConn’s Azzi Fudd

Shortly after dropping 40 factors to steer the Golden State Warriors to a 106-101 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday, four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry paid tribute to a fellow sharpshooter and good friend within the faculty ranks: UConn Huskies girls’s basketball star Azzi Fudd.

Curry — an ardent assist of girls’s sports activities — wore Fudd’s blue UConn jersey to his postgame information convention following the win. Friday was additionally Fudd’s twentieth birthday, and in the future after she scored 26 factors within the Huskies’ season-opening win over Northeastern.

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“Needed to shout her out,” Curry stated Friday of Fudd, a sophomore guard with the Huskies. “Basketball is basketball and persevering with to do our half to shine a light-weight and have fun these girls who’re doing wonderful issues on the courtroom.”

Earlier within the week, Curry sat courtside at Stanford’s Maples Pavilion to look at household good friend Cameron Brink play because the Cardinal trounced CSU Northridge 104-40.

The Curry-Fudd connection goes again years. She was invited to Curry’s SC30 Choose Camp at 15. She stood out, even amongst older boys, for her capturing prowess.

“She may be going full pace and cease on a dime and have, like, a feathery launch,” Curry informed ESPN earlier than her dedication to UConn. “I feel she has extra of a textbook jumper than anybody I’ve seen. Possibly Klay Thompson and Azzi Fudd. … You go Ray Allen, Klay Thompson and Azzi Fudd, textbook. You’ll train anyone the best way to shoot with their kind.”

With faculty athletes now capable of revenue off their title, picture and likeness, Fudd signed a deal in December with Curry’s group — marking its first athlete signing — that entails a mentorship element from Curry himself.

Earlier this week, Curry gave Fudd one other shoutout on-line after she sank 9 3-pointers in UConn’s exhibition recreation, tweeting “Splash! 9 of em ���� “

Fudd’s subsequent recreation is Monday as No. 6 UConn takes on No. 3 Texas in Storrs, Connecticut.