Media members angry about Steph Curry bringing his daughter to press conference

I know Bayless wasn't at the game. I'm assuming Windhorst was covering the Eastern Conference finals so he could be close to his best buddy LeBron, or was he actually in Oakland for Game 1?

It would seem funny if the two people complaining about Curry weren't even there.

 

I can understand people complaining even if they weren't there. It's easy enough to put themselves in that position.

 

If it were any other arena other than a NBA post-game press conference - say, a little pesky brother after a high school football game - any reporter would think the same thing: Get the kid out of here. They wouldn't think: Now here's an unexpected and human moment where the 9-year-old brother is being a little shit - which is what 9-year-old brothers tend to be - and, man, let me marinate on that humanness of that instead of talking to the game-winning quarterback.

The principle is entirely true. What I believe people are reacting to is our fascination with celebrities having real live little children.

 

Anybody who criticizes a man for spending time with his children is really kind of missing the point of life.

 

A 9-year-old and a 2-year-old are incredibly different.

And an NBA press conference and a high school postgame are incredibly different.

Other than that, great analogy!

But, for the sake of argument, if the 18-year-old quarterback and his 9-year-old brother had a neat or funny exchange, yeah, that probably would yield better than the "tell us about your linemen" question would.

I can see you're far off the deep end being the contrarian here, but this one is especially dumb.

 

Is a high school QB mandated to talk to the press?

If not, deal with it and report what you see. I thought reporters weren't supposed to be part of the story.

This thread must me analogy porn for Baron.

 

For someone who bitches about other people's shitty analogies, Alma sure is introducing several of his own.

 

Far be it for me to complain about typos and grammar, but if you're going to rag on me, at least proofread before you do.

 

All in good fun Baron.

 

It only took 6 1/2 pages for it to be written this plainly. We've pretty much covered all the greeting card sentiments now.

I know that reads harsh, I know, but it's simple, basic professionalism. There's a value to it.

 

If you're saying this was unprofessional, but only watching the highlights that show Curry's daughter, then go seek out some Twitter accounts of reporters that were there and that say there was plenty of time/opportunity to ask Curry the questions they needed to ask. If anything, he was professional for not hamming it up when his daughter wanted to be rambunctious. He kept speaking, thoughtfully, as he usually does.

After this, I will never be surprised by an inside baseball media controversy again. For a group of people that make a living that often consists of critically analyzing every move of athletes/teams, thus sometimes making their jobs/lives more difficult, we sure complain a lot when they make our jobs/lives a little more difficult*

*Assuming not getting a canned quote at a presser as opposed to a moment of organic gold makes your game recap more difficult.

 

When I first saw this, I just assumed it was an onion joke spun out of control.

I've interviewed coaches on the field and they've been holding their kids. I didn't think, what an unprofessional asshole, I thought, what a nice moment, I can use that.

It isn't a matter of a person being a celebrity, even though Curry is a pretty low watt one at that. It is more about capturing a human moment and being in that moment as an observer.

If I was interviewing a soldier who was just coming home and was interrupted by his kids, I wouldn't think the solider was an asshole, just a human being.