Ayesha Curry Stripped of ‘Wifey Material’ Title After Twitter Rant

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Stephen Curry’s wife’s 137 characters even attracted the sexist commentary of ESPN “First Take” Stephen A. Smith

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Ayesha Curry quickly became America’s new sweetheart. She’s beautiful, funny and classy, amongst other characteristics that marked her as “wifey” material. “I need me an Ayesha Curry” was a typical tweet… until Game 6.

But what happened when the wife of NBA MVP Stephen Curry spoke her mind? All hell broke loose.

During Game 6 of the NBA playoffs on Thursday, Stephen Curry was ejected from the game after throwing his mouthpiece into the crowd in frustration.

Clearly Mrs. Curry was frustrated too, as she tweeted after the incident: “I’ve lost all respect sorry this is absolutely rigged for money… Or ratings in not sure which. I won’t be silent. Just saw it live sry.”

And in the blink of an eye, no one seemed to want them an Ayesha Curry anymore.

Shirts with the words “Bye Ayesha,” (in reference to the “Friday” joke “Bye Felicia!” became a hot ticket item.

Even deleting her tweet and apologizing, explaining that she had tweeted in the heat of the moment, couldn’t save her from the impending scrutiny.

Mrs. Curry simply expressed her irritation with the game as any diehard fan might. But she happened to be Steph Curry’s wife and her 137 characters even drew the commentary of Stephen A. Smith, ESPN’s “First Take” commentator. According to Smith, there’s an appropriate way to be an NBA player’s wife, and Mrs. Curry isn’t it.

“As beautiful as everyone wants to say Ayesha Curry is, and she is, Savannah is something special,” said Smith, referring to LeBron James‘ wife. “She’s wonderful inside and out, she sits there, she doesn’t bring any attention to herself.”

Although some agreed that Curry should’ve kept her tweets to herself, they weren’t happy about the criticism.

“No one needs that kind of distraction when you’re playing for a championship,” said Miki Turner, who teaches a sports commentary class at USC. “As for all of her haters, they need to get a life too.”

The Cleveland Cavaliers went on to beat the Golden State Warriors in Game 7 of the NBA Finals Sunday to become the 2016 champions.

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