On Thursday night, a Carolina Panthers fan won himself the 2022 Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award. Oh, and you may have heard of him a time or two before.
Although technically born in Akron, Ohio, Wardell Stephen Curry II is a Charlotte boy through and through. He grew up in Charlotte, attended high school at Charlotte Christian and became a college basketball legend at nearby Davidson College.
Now, he can call himself a four-time NBA champion and NBA Finals MVP—the first such honor of his ongoing Hall-of-Fame career.