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Steph Curry dominated Toronto basketball long before becoming NBA star

Steph Curry, Golden State Warriors (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
Steph Curry, Golden State Warriors (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

Over a decade before Steph Curry emerged as one of the NBA's biggest stars, he was showing off his skills as a youngster while living in Toronto.

Steph's dad, Dell, played for the Raptors from 1999 to 2002 and enrolled his son at Queensway Christian College in Etobicoke for his Grade 8 year.

Even back then it was already obvious that Steph was a special basketball talent.

"He was this tiny little guy, but when we put him on the court he was just unbelievable. He was scoring 40 points, 50 points a game, no problem," his coach at Queensway, James Lackey, told Alex Ballingall of the Toronto Star. "No one even came close to us that year."

The Queensway Saints went undefeated that season, and it hasn't been much different for Curry and his Golden State Warriors in 2014-15. At 44-11, they have the best record in a loaded Western Conference and the 26-year-old guard is a frontrunner to win the MVP award.

Curry wasn't in Toronto for long, he returned to his native North Carolina in Grade 9 to complete his high school education and went on to play college hoops at Davidson College, but his legend is certainly part of the city's deep basketball history.

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Israel Fehr is a writer for Yahoo Canada Sports. Email him at israelfehr@yahoo.ca or follow him on Twitter.