{"id":3884,"date":"2017-02-10T07:32:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/staceydash\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2017-02-10T07:34:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:34:12","slug":"nba-superstar-steph-curry-calls-trump-asset-without-et","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/staceydash\/2017\/02\/nba-superstar-steph-curry-calls-trump-asset-without-et\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA superstar Steph Curry calls Trump an &#8216;asset&#8217; without the &#8216;et&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 399px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/617339780\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 148.872180% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/617339780?et=4IrXpckOQNpgJgI6uj0KIg&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=PHCOh0hbAaA-VnxSJ8dAmuOVYHN40nEYDei1_JwgoJQ=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"399\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Recently,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ijr.com\/2017\/02\/797269-under-armour-ceo-is-turning-heads-with-a-bold-statement-about-president-trump\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Under Armour CEO<\/a>\u00a0Kevin Plank met with President Trump and came away with a positive assessment of our new leader, saying that his pro-business attitude is \u201ca real asset for the country.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As with everything related to Trump, of course, people were upset with this take. \u00a0NBA Superstar Steph Curry, who represents Under Armour\u2019s shoe division, said \u201cI agree with that description. If you remove the \u2018et.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plus, he had more to say when he\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/story\/stephen-curry-donald-trump-under-armour-ceo-asset-020817\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">decided to speak out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a fine line, but it\u2019s about how we\u2019re operating, how inclusive we are, what we stand for. He\u2019s the President. There are going to be people that are tied to them. But are we promoting change?<\/p>\n<p>Are we doing things that are going to look out for everybody? And not being so self-serving that it\u2019s only about making money, selling shoes, doing this and that. That\u2019s not the priority. It\u2019s about changing lives. I think we can continue to do that.<\/p>\n<p>If there is a situation where I can look at myself in the mirror and say they don\u2019t have my best intentions, they don\u2019t have the right attitude about taking care of people \u2026 if I can say the leadership is not in line with my core values, then there is no amount of money, there is no platform I wouldn\u2019t jump off if it wasn\u2019t in line with who I am.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s a decision I will make every single day when I wake up. If something is not in line with what I\u2019m about, then, yeah, I definitely need to take a stance in that respect.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, selling shoes is NOT the most important goal for a shoe company? \u00a0Okay.<\/p>\n<p>Curry spent time on the phone with the leadership of Under Armour to make sure they still had the same values as he did.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if Curry is not \u201call about the money,\u201d I look forward to seeing him return that paycheck to the company now that he realizes they are aligned in values.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA superstar spokesperson is NOT all about the money like Trump is.  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