Stephen Curry was ejected late in game six of the NBA Finals. He was not happy about the foul call, and neither was his wife Ayesha Curry. Ayesha claimed that Steph’s poor foul calls means that the NBA is rigged:
The tweet has since been deleted. Ayesha tweeted a follow-up stating that she was simply upset in the heat of the moment, though she still doesn’t agree with the call:
tweeted in the heat of the moment because the call was uncalled for.
— Ayesha Curry (@ayeshacurry) June 17, 2016
Why was Ayesha so frustrated? Apparently her father dealt with racial profiling earlier in the evening:
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 apologize:
— Ayesha Curry (@ayeshacurry) June 17, 2016
I'm okay that we lost… I just can't take people coming at my family for absolutely no reason. Something I don't understand or stand for.
— Ayesha Curry (@ayeshacurry) June 17, 2016
It appears it was a case of mistaken identity and confused with a con artist. Police threatened to arrest him, according to Marc J. Spears of ESPN.
Stephen Curry was briefed by an NBA official about the situation with his father-in-law after he spoke to media following Game 6. Aminzadeh was never found by NBA or Quicken Loans security during Game 6, the NBA official said. The con artist previously had been arrested at the 2015 NBA All-Star Game slam dunk contest in Brooklyn, New York, according to the official.
“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 as he departed from the arena. “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.
