After endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris at last month's Democratic National Convention, NBA superstar Stephen Curry detailed his reasons for supporting her in this election in an interview with CNBC on Thursday.
Curry has put “a woman's right to choose” at the top of her list of issues for the presidential election this fall.
“Supporting Kamala is important to me and my family,” he said. “I know especially about women's rights, I think about what's at stake in this election and I understand that we need to stand for women to have the right to choose what's right for them. This is a top priority for me. I have incredible women in my life who are such an inspiration to me.”
This marks a significant shift from his position just two years earlier: In a 2022 interview with Rolling Stone, Curry said he was neither pro-life nor pro-choice, and didn't feel the need to speak out against the Supreme Court's overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision earlier that year.
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Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry presented a jersey to Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 17, 2023. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
When asked what made him want to endorse Harris, the only other point Curry cited was that he knows the current vice president through past interactions.
The two were seen talking and laughing together in footage when the vice president met with the U.S. men's basketball team ahead of their appearance at the Paris Olympics, and during the Golden State Warriors' visit to the White House after winning the 2022 NBA Finals.
“Knowing Kamala and having had the experience of working with her, I know she is the right person for the job,” Curry said. “To me, it's an easy choice.”
Curry has a history of supporting the Democratic Party and even following the orders of key party figures.
He previously endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 and Hillary Clinton in 2016. Curry also said that former President Obama had ordered him to retract some of his past statements.
Former President Obama spoke alongside Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry at the MBK Rising! My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, California on February 19, 2019. (Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)
After point guard Curry made comments on Vince Carter's podcast “Winging It” in December 2018 suggesting that the 1969 moon landing was faked, Curry told Rolling Stone in September 2022 that he received a scathing email from President Obama demanding that he publicly retract his comments.
Two days after making the comment, Curry told ESPN that he was joking, and has since accepted an invitation to tour NASA.
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Curry has spoken at the Democratic National Convention before this year. At the 2020 convention, which was entirely virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Curry and his wife, Ayesha, delivered a pre-recorded message. The couple's two children, Ryan and Riley, also appeared in the video. But the couple did not acknowledge that Biden had a rival, even when their children asked them in the video who else was running.
Aisha cited the fact that she and her husband have children as one of the biggest reasons they supported Biden that year. She also emphasized that racism and social injustice are big issues for the couple. Curry's children also said they were “happy” that Biden chose a woman, Harris, as his running mate that year.
Curry told Rolling Stone in 2022 that the couple was unsure about the issue of abortion when they first attended the Democratic National Convention.
“From a faith perspective, I was unsure, especially on abortion,” Curry said. “When you support a president, you hear a lot of voices: 'Daughter killer! Baby killer!'… It's a fine line to know the beast that is politics. It's more important to be proactive than to understand that, especially when we're talking about a presidential election, we don't have complete agreement on all the candidates and everything they do.”
Curry previously spoke in a personal essay to the League of Christian Athletes about his Christian upbringing. His parents, Dell and Sonia Curry, raised him to believe in God and even credited him for his basketball talent. He revealed that his mother was the principal of a Christian Montessori school when he was in first grade.
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Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry celebrates with his mother, Sonia Curry, after their victory over the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference Finals at the Moda Center on May 20, 2019 in Portland, Oregon. (Jonathan Ferry/Getty Images)
Sonia Curry said in her memoir, “Fierce Love,” that she considered abortion and even went to a Planned Parenthood clinic while pregnant with Steven. Curry is the couple's first child. She also opened up about it during a 2022 appearance on the “Your Mom” podcast.
“I'm sharing this story to let people know, number one, that a lot of people struggle with this and that's OK. It's OK that you struggle with this. Number two, my decision not to have him at that point was also at odds with my decision not to continue with my previous pregnancy,” she said.
“But my favorite Bible verse says all things work together for good and those who are called according to God's purpose praise Jesus. It all worked out well. Look at Stephen and what he's doing. It just amazes me.”
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