LOOK: Fans looking for Steph Curry's autograph crash through railing
The weight of fame hanging on Steph Curry.
By
Zach Harper
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1 min read
SALT LAKE CITY -- Before Wednesday night's game in Salt Lake City between the Golden State Warriors and the Utah Jazz, Stephen Curry was delighting the early birds in the crowd with his pregame routine. As he worked with Warriors assistant Bruce Fraser on pregame shooting, the crowd cheered over every swish from incredible distances and with impossible levels of balance -- all shots he'll have a chance of dazzling them with later when they count for actual points.
After Curry tossed in a high-arcing fadeaway from the left corner, he came over to the tunnel connecting the left corner of the court and the Warriors' locker room. As he started to sign autographs, fans swarmed to the corner and hung over the railing hoping he would sign their jerseys, hats and shoes. As Curry moved from the left side of the waiting fans to the right, more fans leaned over hoping to be selected by his marker. Eventually, the dam of the railing broke and fans came tumbling down, nearly onto Curry.
A gate gave way as fans tried to get Steph Curry's autograph before tonight's Warriors at Jazz game. pic.twitter.com/roYHZnKY0y
— Brittany Copeland (@brittanydiehl) March 31, 2016
It was a handful of fans who fell down with a couple of them being young children. Curry was hurried into the tunnel immediately and ushers started checking to see if the fans who fell were harmed and tried to make sure everybody stayed back in the stands. The fans who fell were checked out for any injuries and are fine.
Curry signed items for some of the fans involved in the collapse of the railing.
