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

Have any reporters doubled down on their dumb complaints?

 

I just get this feeling that this is going to be the new "What is Marshawn going to say?" of press conferences. What is Riley going to do? If you watch the video, you see the front-row reporters pulling out their phones to record her antics, like she is going to do anything except be a regular 2-year-old.

And just because the questions and answers are drivel, and usually nothing of substance comes from it, the people there are working doing their jobs. It doesn't matter if you think that job is meaningless. The press conference exists for the press, not the athlete and his child.

 

Were those people unable to do their jobs last night?

Christ, this is about the dumbest "thing" since the last dumbest thing.

 

Riley Curry's presence was probably the most interesting aspect of the press conference. She also got a lot of social media attention. The whining members of the media really need to take a step back and get a little perspective. It's a show.

 

Aren't the press the supposed link between the fans and the players? Doesn't that make it the press conference for the fans?

 

This is the one question Riley Curry interrupted:

Can you describe the mood before the doors opened up and everybody came in when it was just you guys? Was there much celebrating going on?

This is the answer that Riley Curry interrupted:

It was special, I think, because everybody was kind of enjoying the moment. We wanted to appreciate the moment, not take it for granted because it was something that we've been waiting for and wanted to close out tonight, but you kind of take it for what it is because you have four more wins and you don't want to get too ahead of yourself. We're going to appreciate what we've done because we've got to be proud of winning the Western Conference. That was tough all year long, and we're excited about the next step.

So, the media's "job," not to be disturbed in any way, was to dig deep enough to find out if the team was happy about winning a playoff series, whether they celebrate when they're happy, and make sure they're aware that there's one more series to play?

 

Am I not allowed to just find something annoying?

 

Fair enough.

There's just a lot of misplaced "how dare he" self-importance floating around this story.

 

Oh I totally agree with you there. I was never up in arms about it or trying to take some kind of high ground. I just found it more annoying the second time around, much the same way I would be annoyed if a co-worker tried to show me the same picture of his cute daughter again and again.

 

I think we can all agree that's annoying, Ty.

 

Celebrity. Nonsense.

But keep going on about entitlement and player rights and watching the watchmen. The sports media, as represented here, would rather chase itself into total obsolescence standing up for every dumb thing a player does than stand up for itself.

I've seen another curious argument form, too - because Steph Curry's answers aren't interesting enough, the questions weren't either, and a kid prop is the only thing that can save them both.

Deadspin, the king of self-hate, a group of (talented) folks who do very little actual day-to-day coverage of any team - even if some of folks damn well know how hard it is - have successfully begun the conversation of how reporters should learn to hate one another and nitpick every little question error made. In service of what? Ultimately, celebrity. The 1%.

Again: Give me the work-a-day women and men who don't always frame the question perfectly because they're asking 100 questions, who occasionally have to run B- copy because that's what the boss needs, who gets overlooked by ambitious player agents until, one day, some player or coach figures they might know a little something, having been around for a few years. They don't wear $1,000 suits. They're only occasionally insiders. Mostly, they just do good, solid work.

I fail to see the pleasure in tearing down that woman or man for the sake of some 2-year-old kid who ought to be in bed anyway.

 

Dennis Dodd wants to see that snot-nosed punk's credential.