We are not here to applaud Stephen Curry for his 35 points Saturday in the Golden State Warriors’ 40th win of the season, a 101-92 victory over the Washington Wizards. We are here to mock him for making a bet with Wes Mathews of the Portland Trail Blazers, whose picture is now Curry’s Twitter avatar.
and bare with me everybody…know Marquette won tonight so one more week with this sorry avi of @wessywes2 smh
— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) March 24, 2013
Yes, Marquette won last night against Butler to advance to the Round of 16 in the NCAA tournament, with Golden Eagles Warriors coach Buzz Williams making an astounding number of substitutions in the second half (the total for the game was somewhere around 70) and applying 20 minutes of full court pressure defense with whichever fresh legs he could find in a 74-72 win over Butler.
Curry attended Davidson, which collapsed down the stretch in the opening round against Marquette and fell victim to the school that produced Doc Rivers, Dean Meminger, Maurice Lucas, Dwyane Wade and our old buddy Jim McIlvaine, among others.
Marquette moves on to the next round in Washington, D.C. against the winner of the Illinois-Miami game, and a certain NBA writer (MU ’87) who regularly eschews college hoops in favor of the pro game will NOT be paying close attention to whatever game is being played in the Association when the Warriors make some more magic in their next game.
And I imagine I will not be alone.
Fellow NBA scribes Steve Aschburner of NBA.com, Mary Schmitt-Boyer (president of the Professional Basketball Writers Association), Steve Rushin of Sports Illustrated and Nancy Armour of the Associated Press are all Marquette alums, as is retired sportswriter Mike Nadel, who would probably be working for ESPNChicago right now if he hadn’t decided one night to make an issue of the clothing Erin Andrews wore to cover a Cubs game. Nadel is the smartest one of the bunch, having turned his back on the brutal journalism industry in favor of a life of leisure in Charlotte, where he has finally learned how to chip with a 7-iron after a decade of unsuccessful prodding by colleagues to let the club do the work.