When Cameron Brink was eight years old, she whispered in Stephen Curry’s ear. At the time, Curry was a highly skilled collegiate basketball player and a close family friend who she referred to as her “god-brother.”
Ten years away from turning into a collegiate basketball great herself, Brink was only concerned in sketching drawings and dressing up. Stanford is scheduled to play in the NCAA women’s Final Four this Friday.
Her family traveled to Detroit to support Curry after his dramatic comeback to the national scene as a Davidson College player during the NCAA tournament. Their moms had been best friends since college.
Cameron’s mom saw the sincere, private moment before the team departed the hotel for its Sweet 16 match. She becomes emotional recalling it.
“What was said to you by her?” Asking Curry, Shelly Bain-Brink did.
“You can be somebody if you believe in yourself,” she added, to which he replied.
Now they chuckle about it. Curry, who has guided the Golden State Warriors to three NBA titles, is among the greatest players in NBA history.
But his family tells him he’s never won an NCAA championship.
This weekend, Cameron Brink could win her second.
Sonya Curry, their mother, said in an interview on Thursday that her son Stephen and his NBA sibling Seth “cannot brag about” receiving such an honor.
Until the fifth or sixth grade, Cameron had no desire to participate in athletics. Sonya Curry said that when the Currys would bring it up, “she would say, ‘I’m an artist.’” “It’s truly amazing to see what she’s doing now,”
Stephen, who is recovering from a foot ailment, intends to watch the game at home with his family. However, Sonya Curry will be watching the Cardinals play the storied Connecticut women’s basketball team on Friday in Minneapolis with the Brinks in the bleachers in hopes of advancing to the national championship game on Sunday. The two Brinks children have Sonya as their godmother, whereas the Curry brothers have Shelly as their godmother.
The Brinks come from their Portland area home to stay as guests of Steph and Ayesha Curry in Atherton for every Stanford home game since the families are so close. “We refer to it as ‘Spa Curry,’” Brink states. There’s supper there often for Cameron and her boyfriend, Stanford rower Ben Felter.
At Virginia Tech, where Shelly played basketball and Sonya volleyball and they became roommates, the families’ relationship began. The male wing of their hostel was occupied by their future spouses, basketball stars Greg Brink and Dell Curry.
Shelly Brink has several pictures of Steph and Cameron that she saves on her phone and attached on her refrigerator, which document their tight friendship. Steph, 13, is seen carrying Cameron while wearing her white baptismal gown. Five years later, there he is again, offering Cameron and her pink pocketbook a lift across the Davidson campus.
The two families are seen in picture after picture at basketball games, wedding showers, and graduations.
On Thursday, Cameron was unavailable for an interview. However, her mother claimed to detest the picture of her wearing glasses and braces at the age of ten as Steph was teaching her the proper grip for a basketball and the fundamentals of a jump shot. There are also the ones she adores, with her and Steph side by side when she was 12 and barely topped his 6-foot-3 frame, and the one two years later when she overtook him at 6-foot-4, causing Steph to giggle by standing on a chair beside her.
Ten years prior to the Brinks, the Currys began their family, and all three of the Curry children attended the Brinks’ wedding. Over the last 20 years, they have lived in many states and other countries, particularly since Dell Curry’s NBA career included five teams and the Brinks pursued their professions with Nike, but they have always made time to see one another. The Brinks were residing in Amsterdam at the time of the picture of the bespectacled Cameron, who was persuaded to attend Dell Curry’s yearly basketball camp in Charlotte, North Carolina, while on summer vacation.
