Warriors’ Curry named AP Male Athlete of Year

Jackson, who coached the Warriors from 2011 to 2014, suggested during their game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday that young players are learning the wrong things from Curry’s game.

The Cleveland Cavaliers waited 192 days to get another crack at the Golden State Warriors in the National Basketball Association.

They joined the Warriors in a morning shootaround where they met and interacted with Curry – named the 2015 Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year on Saturday- along with his teammates and coaches at the team’s practice facility.

Green continued to speak following the Golden State Warriors tight 89-83 win against the Cavaliers. More than one-third of the voters left American Pharoah off their list.

But the Warriors boast more depth than virtually any other team in the league and proved it with a surprisingly strong performance from reserve Shaun Livingston, who shot 8 of 9 for 16 points.

“That’s a real honor”, Curry said to AP.

“I have to talk to him”, Curry told Yahoo Sports. This season, he’s helped the Warriors start 28-1 thanks to a career-high 30.8 points per game.

For the five-game schedule, an average of more than 5.5 million watched and all five games had more viewers than a year ago.

ESPN opened the day’s five-game slate with a 2.3 overnight rating for New Orleans-Miami. The Warriors-Cavs game generated 11 million total minutes streamed, the most ever for a Christmas Day game.

The same goes for the legacy created by Michael Jordan that led to the emergence of Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson, among others.

So imagine his surprise to learn that he is leading the early voting for the All-Star, by a wide margin.

“The way that I play has a lot of skill but is stuff that if you go to the YMCA or rec leagues or church leagues around the country, everybody wants to shoot, everybody wants to handle the ball, make creative passes and stuff like that”, he said.

FILE-Head coach Mark Jackson and Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors confer in the game with the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Center on October 31, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. “(I) saw the damn votes, and I was like, ‘What the hell?’ Shocked doesn’t do it justice….