Emotions got the best of Stephen Curry's wife Ayesha after Game 6 of the NBA Finals. Tweeting and then deleting that the NBA is rigged almost immediately after her husband was ejected from the game, Thursday night was not the best of nights for Ayesha.
Even before the game she had a rough time, as the Warriors' family bus was not permitted to enter Quicken Loans Arena until Game 6 had basically started. Then, according to Ayesha Curry, while trying to enter the arena, her father was racially profiled by NBA security.
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
At least that's what she believes happens and points to a reason why her emotions were scattered when she fired off that NBA is rigged tweet.
However according to Steph and the arena's security, the reason her father was detained was because they mistakenly thought he was an infamous con artist, who had been swindling his way into games.
From The Undefeated's Marc Spears:
NBA security was on alert during Game 6 of the NBA Finals to find David Aminzadeh, who previously has sneaked in to countless major sporting events, an NBA official told The Undefeated. Quicken Loans Arena security officials checked the credentials of the father of Curry's wife, Ayesha, because they thought he looked like Aminzadeh, before determining they were mistaken, an NBA official said.
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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.
"That was kind of a traumatic situation where her [Ayesha's] dad almost got arrested. So it was kind of a tough situation to deal with in a hostile environment. All in all, it's just a game. I hope that everybody is all right."
This provides some more background for Ayesha's now deleted tweet. Sitting on a bus forever while you are right next to your destination and then having your father be questioned by security could unnerve even the best of us. And while perhaps Ayesha shouldn't have questioned the validity of the NBA, the league that employs her husband and essentially supports their livelihood, she did apologize and admits she was in the wrong.
It was a silly, heated mistake and is in the past. Now all Ayesha and Steph can do is move on from it and focus on Game 7 on Sunday.
