Amazon has hired Augusta County native Dell Curry to serve as a game analyst for its debut season of the NBA on Prime Video.
Curry, a 1982 graduate of Fort Defiance High School, where he was a McDonald’s All-American, has been working on TV broadcasts for the Charlotte Hornets since 2009.
The world knows Dell Curry more these days for being the father of Steph Curry, a two-time NBA MVP, but for us old-timers here in the Valley, Dell, who grew up in Grottoes, near the Augusta/Rockingham county line, is still a legend.
The late ‘70s and early ‘80s were the salad days in the Valley District, with Curry at Fort Defiance, Ralph Sampson at Harrisonburg, and Kevin Madden, who played his college ball at UNC, at R.E. Lee.
Sampson went on to become a three-time national player of the year at Virginia, ahead of being the #1 pick in the 1983 NBA Draft.
Curry is the #2 all-time scorer at Virginia Tech, and was a first-round pick in the 1986 NBA Draft, eventually landing in Charlotte, where he played for 10 years.
He finished up in 2002 in Toronto, and for his 16-year NBA career, he averaged 11.7 points per game, and shot 40.2 percent from three-point range, if you were wondering where Steph got his long-range chops from.
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