Warriors’ Steph Curry goes on elaborate revenge spree in aftermath of NBA Finals

“I know all about everything and I use it as entertainment and have fun with it,” Curry said.

After clinching the NBA Finals Thursday night — and winning his first-ever Finals MVP in the process — Curry made sure to use his knowledge of “everything” to settle several scores.

The Boston bar that put up signage and sold t-shirts with the phrase “Ayesha can’t cook” was predictably on Curry’s list of targets: the Dubs star posed for a picture with one of the shirts along with his Finals MVP trophy. “Bye Boston,” he wrote in a caption on Instagram.

Also on his list was ESPN personality Brian Windhorst, who has been unusually hostile to Golden State for years. After the Warriors won Game 5 of Finals, Windhorst called the victory a “checkbook win,” arguing that the Warriors are winning simply because of their payroll.

“I heard somebody talking about ‘checkbook wins’ and all this other stuff,” Curry said in a postgame interview. “Yeah, it starts with the core group of champions and bonafide winners [who] believe that we can run it back, and now we’re here.”

Curry also responded to slights that arose before this Finals series, and before the season even began. During an August 2021 edition of ESPN’s “First Take,” a panel of commentators were asked to predict how many championships Curry would win in the next four years after signing another contract extension.

Both Kendrick Perkins, a generally unserious analyst, and Domonique Foxworth, a former NFL player, put up zeros.

“Clearly remember some experts and talking heads putting up the big zero on how many championships we’d have going forward because of everything that we went through,” Curry said while making the “zero” gesture himself.

Curry’s teammate Klay Thompson was also uncharacteristically petty after the game. Curry said that he and his teammates used all of the slights through the year as fuel. Apparently, one needs extra motivation when they’re trying for their fourth NBA Finals in eight seasons.

“We hear all of that, you carry it all and try to maintain your purpose, not let it distract you but you carry that weight,” Curry said. “And then you get here and it all comes out.”