Skip Bayless targets Stephen Curry as a “light-skinned” star whilst discussing the 2022 NBA Finals games. Moreover the sports media analyst and personality took shots at the Finals MVP for not being visible throughout all 6-games. Fans couldn’t digest the same take and targeted TV personality for the same.
Stephen Curry added one more feather in his cap with Finals MVP Trophy after memorable 2022 NBA Finals games. He averaged above 31 points per game with 6 rebounds and 5 assists to capture the coveted trophy. Curry though after monumental performances, had perfect support from his teammates to overcome the Boston Celtics team in 6 games. 1st-time Champions like Andrew Wiggins and Jordan Poole had a couple of great games for the Warriors, while other members of the Warriors’ core like Draymond Green and Klay Thompson stepped up when needed. With collective efforts from the team, the Warriors managed to recapture the NBA Championship, for 4th time in 8 seasons under Stephen Curry.
Skip Bayless, who predicted the Warriors win at the beginning of the series, was not impressed by Stephen Curry’s performance. As per the analyst, the Warriors’ leader was missing in some parts of the games, where his team carried him to the win.
Stephen Curry bettering his performances finals after finals
Golden State Warriors won their 4th overall title in 2015 under Steve Kerr and Stephen Curry. It ended 40 years of wait for the team, but then they didn’t waste much time, capturing the next 3 titles. Curry gained experience in 8 finals played and showed improvement in every field. Despite being surrounded by star players around him, he did manage to stand out in the games.
Curry averaged 26 points 5 rebounds and 5 assists in his 1st Championship season. Then 26.8 points, 9.4 assists, and 8.0 rebounds, performance with Durant in the team eased them to the 2017 championship and it got easier as 27.5 points, 6.8 assists and 6.0 rebounds performance was enough for a clean sweep against LeBron James and Cavs in 2018. In the 2022 finals, tough Curry managed to top all with a massive 31.2 ppg, 6.0 RPG, and 5.0 APG production in 6 games.
He also drained an average of 5 three-pointers in the finals (even though he was 0-9 in game 5) and became 1st player to have 30-5-5-5 Finals since the introduction of the 3-point shot in 1979-80. Offensively lethal Steph led all players in scoring with 187 total points over the six-game series as he accounted for 29.7% of Golden State’s 629 total points scored in the Finals. HE also scored 31 three-pointers in the 2022 finals bettering the previous personal of 25 set back in 2018.
And Even after such massive game production Skip’s claims of “light-skinned” performance made the analyst a new villain. He said, “There were too many times where he (Steph) got so light skinned in the finals, I couldn’t see him anymore, because he turned into a ghost.”
Fans trolled Skip for his analysis as NBA Twitter erupted over Skip’s comments.
Shannon laughing at this is pissing me off
— Lemat🇪🇷 (@TewoIde) June 17, 2022WTF ?!!! I hate Skip for real
— Joe Shasky (@ButcherBoy415) June 17, 2022this Raveon Baeless
— 23rd 🏆🍾🥂 (@dreeagledollar) June 17, 2022Ive never seen any other players looks brought into talks like steph. Its getting weird
— ♡ (@iriscentral_) June 17, 2022Skip knows what he’s doing. His style was always being a shock jock but now it’s played out and boring so he’s trying to stir up more clicks any way he can.
— President Camacho (@theQtip) June 17, 2022ncG1vNJzZmiemafAtb%2FPqKmtsl6YvK57zZuYZqaVrMBussCnqmaZpKmupLeMrKKiqF2Xrrq4xKyqZp6fp3qjscKopKKml2LBqbGMp5ywZaaeua21wKdkmp6kmr9urdOtmJyjmaO0br%2FTnqehnZ5isLa%2B0bJkoqZdoa61sdKtZKuZnql8