Stephen Curry’s family had a bad night Thursday.
Not only did Curry’s Golden State Warriors drop Game 6 of the NBA Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers, 115-101, but Curry’s father-in-law was stopped and questioned by security at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena when he was mistaken for a fake credential con artist.
Curry’s wife Ayesha Curry tweeted that “Police racial profiled my father and told him to remove credentials and tried to arrest him. It’s been a long night for me.”
"I was just kind of debriefed on what the security thought happened with some guy that poses with fake credentials and gets backstage at a lot of events, the NBA Finals and all that stuff," Curry told The Undefeated, ESPN's micro-site on sports, race and culture. "They kind of profiled my father-in-law and thought he was him. They threatened to arrest him before they checked out his credentials. It's kind of been an emotional and tough night all the way around."
Besides watching his team lose (despite Curry’s 30 points and eight 3-pointers), Curry was ejected from the game in the fourth quarter for throwing his mouth guard and hitting an unintended target — the son of a Cavaliers co-owner.
