Stephen Curry fires back at Gilbert Arenas, other podcasters for criticizing his wife Ayesha’s on-screen kiss

The Roku Channel's new Christmas movie, Second Chance Holiday, premiered last Thursday, starring an actress in her first leading role: Ayesha Curry. The wife of Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has 20 acting credits on IMDB, but has never headlined a movie before, and with that new stature has come criticism.

On the "We Said What We Said" podcast, former NBA players Gilbert Arenas and Nick Young took issue with Curry kissing co-star Matthew Daddario. "The only blemish in the family is the wife, in a sense," Arenas said. "Because she doesn't act like the other superstars' wives. You know, Jordan's wife; Cookie, that's Magic's wife; Savannah, right, where we don't want to hear you. We just want to know you're there. You're fine. You're taking the pictures, but we don't want to know you."

Arenas claimed that Curry speaks to other men via direct messages on social media because "she needs the attention because he doesn't give her the attention because he's focused," alluding to previous comments Curry made about having "zero male attention."

Former NFL running back LeSean McCoy also cited that conversation in criticizing Curry. "This is crazy. You got one of the greatest players of…

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