The family ties between Stephen Curry and the Standford Basketball star…
As Stanford Cardinal star Cameron Brink takes the floor tonight against UConn in the NCAA Final Four, another Bay Area basketball dignitary, who is still nursing an injury, will be watching at home.
“It’s pretty awesome having watched her grow up in the game,” Stephen Curry, who is Brink’s god-brother, said in 2021. Curry said he’s enjoyed watching Brink “just come into her own as a talented high-school prospect, and as a highly talented freshman at Stanford.” Now a 20-year-old sophomore and defending champion from last year, Brink is the leading scorer and rebounder for the Cardinal
Cameron Brink has enjoyed watching Steph Curry come into his own, too. She was just eight years old when Davidson — Curry’s alma mater — was playing in the Sweet 16. Before the game, she told Curry, “If you believe in yourself, you can be somebody,” Shelly Bain-Brink, Cameron’s mother, told the Mercury News. Bain-Brink said she still gets choked up remembering that moment
The family ties between Stephen Curry and the Standford Basketball star…
“Steph is a goal-oriented, confident perCurryson,” Bain-Brink told ESPN in 2017. “And I see that developing in Cameron more and more all the time.”
The Brink/Curry roots were sowed decades ago at Virginia Tech, “where Shelly played basketball and Sonya [Curry] played volleyball, and they became roommates. Their future husbands, Dell Curry and Greg Brink, both basketball players, lived in the men’s wing of their dorm,” the Mercury News said, adding that the families remain close, and that for Stanford home games, the Brinks travel from their Portland, Oregon, home and stay with Steph and Ayesha Curry. “Cameron and her boyfriend, Stanford rower Ben Felter, are frequent dinner guests as well.”
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“She lives about eight minutes away from me — it’s pretty cool that things have aligned like that,” Curry said in the 2021 interview, adding that, when the Warriors were in Portland to play the Trail Blazers, he caught a few of Brink’s games at Southridge high school. “She’s skilled and talented, and as she sprouted up in her height, she kept that skill.”
