Curry rips SI for leaving Kaepernick off activism cover
Stephen Curry was front and center on Sports Illustrated's much-discussed cover this week, but he's not happy about it. Specifically, he can't understand why Colin Kaepernick wasn't included in the Photoshopped image of prominent sports figures linking arms under the headline, "A nation divided ... Sports united."
"That was terrible," Curry said Wednesday, per ESPN's Chris Haynes. "Just kind of capitalizing on the hoopla and the media and that nonsense. The real people ... understand exactly what's been going on, and who's really been active and vocal and truly making a difference, if you don't have Kaepernick front and center on that, then something's wrong."
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Curry's coach, Steve Kerr, wrote a first-person account in the SI issue regarding President Donald Trump rescinding the Warriors' White House invitation as champions. In the cover image, Curry is linking arms with LeBron James and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, with Kerr and others behind them.
"It's kind of hard to see how certain narratives take place being prisoners of the moment," Curry added.
Kaepernick was the impetus for the athlete demonstrations that have now spread when he began kneeling for the national anthem while playing for the San Francisco 49ers last year. He remains unsigned as an NFL free agent.