STEPH Curry’s wife Ayesha has claimed that her relationship with the basketball star comes first – even ahead of their kids.
The Golden State Warriors superstar, 36, and Ayesha, 35, first met as teenagers.
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They have been married since 2011 and have four children together; Riley, 12, Ryan, 9, Canon, 6, and Caius, born last May.
Speaking to People magazine, Ayesha recently discussed how she and her husband balance their work schedule with being parents.
During the conversation, she made a surprising revelation.
“I think for us, our relationship always comes first,” she admitted. “Then we’re parents.”
Ayesha then went on to explain her unusual stance.
“That works for us because then you have two happy people raising the kids in the house,” she said.
“So the family sector in our lives always comes first.”
Ayesha also opened up about their youngest child, Caius.
“He’s nine months now. He’s crawling and laughing. He only says, ‘Dad,'” she revealed.
“We were worried about having the six-year gap between our son and Cai Cai, and it’s been magical. He truly feels like a big brother.
“He only wants to protect him. There’s no jealousy. I love it.”
Steph, meanwhile, finds himself in a battle just to reach the playoffs with the Warriors this season.
The four-time NBA champion has played in 47 of his team’s 56 games so far.
He has averaged 23 points per game while shooting 39 per cent from three on 11 attempts.
New rights deal
The NBA signed an 11-year deal with three networks for the league’s rights from the 2025-26 season.
And there will be no games on TNT for the first time since the network launched in 1988.
The Walt Disney Company will continue to show the league with 80 regular-season games across ESPN and ABC.
They will also show around 18 playoff games from the first and second round, a Conference Finals series for 10 of the 11 years, and remain the home of the NBA Finals.
NBC will return as an NBA broadcaster for the first time since 2002.
The network will show up to 100 games per season across it’s channels and Peacock streaming service.
It will also be the home of NBA All-Star and show approximately 28 playoff games from the first and second round.
NBC will show one Conference Finals Series for six of the 11 years, rotating with new broadcaster Amazon Prime.
Amazon will show 66 NBA regular-season games including one on Black Friday.
The streaming service is also the home of the latter stages of the NBA Cup and the entire Play-In Tournament.
Prime will also broadcast around one third of the playoff games in the first and second round.
The Warriors are ninth in the Western Conference with a record of 29-26.
Desperate to climb into the top six, thus avoiding the play-in tournament, the Warriors acquired Jimmy Butler before the trade deadline.
Butler, 35, is aiming to win his first NBA championship – having twice lost in the Finals with the Miami Heat.
He has so far played five games for his new team since being traded from Miami.
The six-time All-Star has averaged 20 points, six rebounds and six assists with the Warriors.
Curry and Co will be back in action this afternoon, when they take on the Dallas Mavericks at Chase Center.