On December 16, Beijing time, in the King's 107-97 victory over the Rockets, Seth Curry played 21 minutes and scored 6 points. While neither scoring nor playing time has set a personal record, for Seth Curry, who has played 11 games for the Kings this season — more than the total number of appearances in the previous two seasons — he has not only been successful enough this season, but he has also been able to continue the Curry family basketball bloodline.
Dale Curry, Stephen Curry, Seth Curry, in the long history of the NBA, a family can have 3 people who have been or are fighting in the NBA, it is not easy, but also enough to write a brilliant chapter belonging to a family. However, this is clearly not the limit, for example, the Barry family. Counting the youngest Drew Barry, there are 4 people in two generations of the Barry family who have fought in the NBA, and even in terms of fame and achievements, the Barry family is fully qualified to claim that they have better basketball genes than the Curry family.
In 2015, Curry helped the Warriors regain the NBA championship after 40 years. In 1975, the key person who helped the Warriors win the championship was Rick Barry, the leader of the Barry family. Speaking of Rick Barry, we have to mention his "ugly" but effective "pee bowl free throw" – it can even be said that this is the reason why Rick Barry has not been forgotten for so many years.
After joining the NBA, Rick Barry moved to ABA — the American Basketball Association and later merged with the NBA — and while playing for ABA's Oaks, Rick Barry helped the team become the league's championship. The following season, 1972-1973, Rick Barry returned to the Warriors, selecting him to the NBA that year. Because of his experience playing for aba, this gave Rick Barry's career in the NBA "only" 18,395 points, a slight lead over Maddie, but Rick Barry's total career score exceeded 25,000 points.
Then came the 1974-1975 season, when Rick Barry averaged 30.6 points per game in the regular season, and in that year's Finals, Rick Barry became the Warriors' "Key Mr. Key" who swept the Washington Bullet 4-0, which also made him the MVP of that year's Finals — it seems that Rick Barry is obviously better than Stephen Curry in the Finals, because the Finals MVP when the Warriors won the championship again went to Iguodala.
In 1980, Rick Barry retired from the Rockets, leaving behind a 23.2 points per game and a 90 percent free throw shooting percentage for his entire career. With such a bizarre free throw position to achieve such an amazing shooting percentage, Rick Barry is clearly a wizard. In 1987, Rick Barry was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame, along with the "Pistol", Pete Maravic and other celebrities.
On March 14, 2005, the Rockets challenged the Warriors on the road, and this day was also the day that Rick Barry's No. 24 jersey retired from the Warriors. It was the fourth retired jersey in the warriors' history, and at this historic moment, Rick Barry's second son, Joan Barry, was able to share this honorary moment with his father on the spot.
Joan Barry, born in 1969, was selected to the NBA by the Celtics with the 21st pick in the first round in 1992, and in the big day of Daddy's jersey retirement, Joan Barry, who traveled to many teams, witnessed this moment as the Warriors' opponent and Rockets. In that game, the Rockets narrowly won 97-94, with Joan Barry coming off the bench for five points and five rebounds.
Although not as good as his own father, Joan Barry, who has played for 8 NBA teams, has not only been a member of the Kings' "bench bandits", but also played in this league for 14 years. What's even more interesting is that, like his dad, Joan Barry spent the last part of his career with the Rockets — though it was because the Rockets ruthlessly cut him — and because of Yao Ming's relationship, Joan Barry also had a good popularity among Chinese fans.
Joan Barry was enough to be proud of Rick Barry, but Joan Barry was clearly not the son who deserved Rick Barry's pride the most. Also in 2005, Brent Barry and Rick Barry's three sons helped the Spurs beat the Pistons 4-3 to become the NBA champion. This also makes the Barry family the second pair of "father and son files" in NBA history to win a championship - Matt Gukos father and son, who won the 1947 BAA championship and the 1967 NBA championship respectively. After that, there were Bill Wharton and Luke Wharton of the Wharton family, and Mitchell Thompson and Klay Thompson of the Thompson family became the overall champion "father and son file".
Like Joan Barry, Brent Barry, who entered the NBA with the 15th pick in the first round in 1995, also played in the NBA for 14 years, and also ended his NBA career with the Rockets like his father and brother - or because of Yao Ming, Brent Barry is also very popular among Chinese fans. But where Brent Barry is stronger than Rick Barry and Joan Barry is not only that he has two championship rings, but he has also left an indelible classic in the NBA All-Star Weekend dunk game.
During the 1996 All-Star Weekend, the young and crazy Brent Barry made it all the way to the final of the dunk contest. His strongest opponent was Michael Finley, who did not win a championship at the Spurs until the end of his career. The little-known Brent Barry reenacted the free throw line jump dunk that originally belonged only to black athletes in the final, which made him the dunk king of that year. That is, from that year on, "white people can fly" and became a classic bridge segment in the NBA.
Compared with Joan Barry and Brent Barry, Rick Barry's other two sons, Scott Barry and Drew Barry, although they have not achieved much in the NBA, their lives are also related to basketball, which also allows them to continue the basketball bloodline of the Barry family. Among them, Rick Barry's eldest son, Scott Barry, although he lost the NBA draft, he once won the NCAA championship - followed the University of Kansas in 1988 - and his career moved to the leagues of Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain and other countries, until he retired from the Spanish league at the age of 40; Rick Barry's younger son, Drew Barry, was selected to the NBA by the SuperSonics at the end of the second round in 1996, after three seasons in the NBA. Like his eldest brother, he went to Europe to continue his basketball career.
From Rick Barry all the way to Drew Barry, all 5 men in the family have lived with basketball and have won 3 championships in the NBA alone, and it is obviously not an exaggeration to say that the Barry family is the first basketball family in the United States. For the Curry family, if they want to really surpass them, although there is hope, I am afraid it is not big.