The Golden State Warriors may be leaving the city of Oakland and headed to San Francisco for the 2019-20 season, but Stephen Curry and his wife Ayesha aren’t ready to abandon the city completely.
The two high school sweethearts will open up their new family foundation called Eat, Play, Learn on Thursday which will focus on three important parts of a healthy childhood: nutrition, recreation, and education.
The Warriors may be leaving Oakland, but Curry and his family did not want to completely leave his “adopted home”.
“Since we got here in 2009, this is our adopted home,” Stephen said. “We grew up as adults here, started our family here. We’ve had so much support through the last 10 years and Oakland has given us so many opportunities.
The exact issues and needs of Oakland are what we want to address. We might be leaving as a team, and maybe as a family moving across the bridge, but we are not leaving Oakland.”
With Stephen as one of the best basketball players in the NBA focusing on the recreation part and Ayesha continuing to advance her culinary career focusing on nutrition, the two will combine their talents to help the foundation thrive.
“We wanted to be involved in something that stems from our passions, that comes from that place of passion,” Ayesha said. “We were not thinking about what this does for our legacy, but about how to have a direct impact. How to help out the community.”
The Curry’s will continue to have an impact in the East Bay despite the Warriors leaving. It is always a great sight to see a top athlete give back to the community and when the foundation opens on Thursday, the Curry family will impact a ton of underprivileged kids in Oakland and help them get a jump start on life.
