Fifteen years later, the former lottery pick told high school students he wishes he had gone to college before heading to the pros. “It would be super dope to have a college diploma,” Curry said, via ChicagoTribune.com.
Curry was a 7-foot-0 sensation at Thornwood High School in South Holland, Ill., and went on to be picked fourth overall by his hometown Chicago Bulls in 2001. The 33-year-old said he thinks he would have been more mature and able to manage his money better if he had gone to college.
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“I was a kid coming out of high school, literally,” Curry said. “When I was in Chicago, they babied me in Chicago. They really kind of sheltered and kept us kind of concealed and didn’t let us get into a lot of stuff. Then I went to New York and it was the total opposite. It was like boom.”
Curry had a solid NBA career, and was an above-average big man while playing with the Bulls and New York Knicks. But he also ran into legal trouble in New York.
