OKLAHOMA CITY — Draymond Inexperienced goes to have fun one other one in all Stephen Curry’s historic feats with an costly bottle of wine — and for the second yr in a row he’ll put it on Warriors proprietor Joe Lacob’s tab.
In honor of Curry making the NBA’s seventy fifth anniversary staff, Inexperienced mentioned he was going to benefit from the event in model within the identical Oklahoma Metropolis restaurant the place he celebrated Curry’s breaking Wilt Chamberlain’s franchise document for factors final season.
What makes the meal much more particular is that Inexperienced mentioned he can be ordering up one other bottle of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche — a French wine that may begin round $5,000 a bottle.
“Steph simply made the seventy fifth anniversary staff so y’all can name Joe this time and inform Joe that we about to go order a bottle of DRC as a result of Steph made the seventy fifth anniversary staff,” Inexperienced mentioned after Monday’s observe. “And Klay’s 77.”
Inexperienced’s reference to teammate Klay Thompson got here after Thompson wore a No. 77 jersey throughout Saturday’s observe after Thompson mentioned he felt snubbed by not being named to the anniversary staff final week. Warriors coach Steve Kerr initially thought Curry had the jersey made, however famous Sunday that from what he understood it was really Thompson, with the assistance of longtime Warriors tools man Eric Housen, who made the jersey.
So would Thompson get an invitation to drink a glass of the costly wine?
“The factor is Klay or Joe did not make the journey,” Inexperienced mentioned. “To allow them to’t partake within the bottle. So me and Steph will take pleasure in it. [Warriors president of basketball operations] Bob [Myers] did not come, might have had a glass. They did not come. So me and Steph will take pleasure in a bottle of DRC tonight. It is occurring Joe’s tab.”
Not like final yr, when he texted Lacob to ensure the acquisition was all proper, Inexperienced enlisted the assembled media to go alongside the message to Lacob for him. For his half, Curry took all of it in stride, chuckling when requested what it is wish to drink such an costly bottle of wine.
“I hope that each glass that I’ve I can manifest that very same expertise,” Curry mentioned. “Whether or not it is $8,000, $800, $80 greenback bottle, no matter it’s. However, you hear the $8,000 cork pop, it is a bit totally different feeling for certain.”