After retiring from the NBA, a familiar face returns to Charlotte, North Carolina to try and live among the non-basketball fanatic friends and family he grew up with, awkwardly struggling to adapt to what most of us consider normal life.
This isn’t a window into Steph Curry’s future, exactly, though it could be —the six-time All-Star is currently working on producing a new comedy series based loosely on the Davidson product’s life, reports Variety’s Will Thorne.
Though born in Akron Ohio, Curry grew up in Charlotte while his father played for that city’s franchise after being selected in the Hornets’ 1988 expansion draft, presumably serving as the substrate the comedy, “The Second Half“, will be based on.
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Working as a non-writing executive producer alongside actor Will Arnett, the pair have teamed up with executive producer Sean Clemens of “Making History”, “The Grinder”, and “United We Fall,” fame to do the writing.
The premise of the series, a comedic rendering of a fictional retired NBAer who buys a car wash and attempts to reconnect to childhood friends and family while doing his best to live like most of us do, is one of several recent forays into sports-themed television and film for the Warriors point guard.
Curry has also produced (and cameoed in) the competitive mini-golf show Holy Moley, and is currently working on a basketball-related film with recording artist John Legend called “Signing Day”.
Currently rehabilitating a broken hand sustained in just the fourth game of the season against the Phoenix Suns, the three-time champion should have a little more time than usual for his dalliances with film and television production.
But don’t expect Curry to retire any time soon.