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Steph Curry isn’t playing when it comes to his wife, Ayesha Curry, after hearing one of his ex-teammates and another former NBA player talk about her on a recent podcast.

On the We Said What We Said podcast, former Golden State Warriors guard Nick Young and retired Washington Wizards player Gilbert Arenas discussed the Currys, particularly Ayesha’s acting role in the Roku Channel romantic comedy Second Chance Holiday.

“[Steph] is the definition of what everybody sees as a father,” Arenas said. “The only blemish in the family is the wife, in the sense that she doesn’t act like the other superstars’ wives.”

Young agreed when Arenas added that Ayesha doesn’t act like Michael Jordan’s wife, Magic Johnson’s wife, or LeBron James’s wife.

Arenas then opined that Ayesha is more “out” and Steph “is the quiet one … He’s the docile one.”

Well, Steph did not stay quiet after the remarks were made and took to social media to let them know he wasn’t happy.

“I’ve been hearing a lot of noise, and usually the noise doesn’t bother me. It doesn’t bother Ayesha,” Steph began. “But this one in particular, when you’re trying to step on the accomplishments of my wife and, you know, obviously needing podcasts, tapings, and topics and giving opinions on somebody else’s wife.

“Nick, Gil, Emmanuel, and anybody else who feels the need to wanna have to, you know, jump in and give an opinion on something you don’t really know about, something that kinda speaks to a bigger conversation on how you view women in this world and what they’re allowed and what they’re not allowed to do. Even the ignorance behind how acting works. Obviously, I tried to laugh this one off, but something needs to be said.”

The NBA superstar continued, “Anytime Ayesha Curry shows up in your headline, I kindly suggest you give the happy hands, the congratulations. And maybe, just maybe, the apology can be as loud as y’all leading y’all shows on the topic.”

The one thing Arenas wasn’t totally off base with was his description of Steph and Ayesha’s different personalities. According to Numerologist.com, the Life Path number 7 (Steph) “brings the kind of inner life that most people only encounter through books. The 7 has a genuine relationship with depth—with meaning, with the inner workings of things, with questions that don’t have commercial applications but matter profoundly. They’re observers and analysts. They find the surface of most transactions unsatisfying.”

While the Life Path number 8 (Ayesha) “brings capability, material competence, and a quality of executive presence that makes things happen in the world. The 8 is not interested in power for its own sake; they’re interested in the capacity to build something real. They understand how systems work, how resources move, how to translate effort into results.”

After Steph called them out, Arenas addressed the backlash and clarified that his comments were aimed at perception rather than malice. And Young apologized, directly saying, “I’m sorry Steph. You my dog, I love you. If I say anything, I apologize like a man.”

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