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10 ‘How We Met’ Stories That Will Make You Laugh, Cry and Say ‘Daaawww’

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By Ariel Scotti

Published Dec 31, 2019

My first question when chatting with a friend’s new boyfriend or girlfriend is always “So, how did you guys meet?” Why? Because there is no such thing as a bad meet-cute—yes, even if it was “through the apps,” it’s still always intriguing to know why and how two people fell for each other. If you’re like me and love tear-inducing “how we met” stories, here are ten that will have you asking for a tissue.

1. The Lamest Bachelorette Link-Up

“My best friend met this guy and his group of friends at a hotel out on Long Island in 2014. He said to her that it looked like they were on the lamest bachelorette party he’d ever seen, so he bought them a round of shots at the pool bar and ‘wooed them all night,’ as he likes to say. She liked him (not like that) and told him a bit about me, saying she thought we’d hit it off, and gave him my number. He texted me the next day and we agreed to go out that weekend. He showed up late because he ‘had a friend in town,’ but told me later that in reality he was at a bar watching the World Cup and didn’t want to miss the end of the match. He made up for it with his hip-shaking, finger-pointing dance moves and we were ‘official’ three months later. We just celebrated our first wedding anniversary this summer!” —Lindsey R., 30 (married 1 year)

2. An Equation for Love

“On my first day of school as a high school biology teacher in 2013, I was so nervous and busy preparing that I hadn’t paid much attention to my classroom ‘roommate,’ a physics teacher named Ryo. He first noticed me that day, sobbing in front of my laptop near the printer, as time ticked down to the start of first period. I was quickly falling apart. Some people have a hero in shining armor, but mine was armed with a USB drive. He patiently worked with me to save my teaching materials and plugged it into the printer. He literally saved my first day on the job.

“That year we went from quietly occupying the same classroom and sitting in on each other’s lessons (he’s still one of the best teachers I've ever observed) to hanging out on the weekends. Our friendship turned into more in July 2014, and two years later, Ryo proposed to me surrounded by a crowd of our family and friends under the blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History. Now married, we both work at different schools, but Ryo has been asking recently if I would work with him again. I’m definitely considering it.” —Marisa M., 33 (married 2.5 years)

3. The In-It-for-the-Long-Haul Couple

“We’re the same age and went to the same grade school in Ohio but didn’t know each other yet—it was a big school! Later on, we attended separate high schools (all boys for him and all girls for me) and were eventually set up on a blind date through mutual friends. We really hit it off and have been together ever since. We went to our senior prom together, dated long-distance through college in different states (I stayed home; he went to Notre Dame) and got married three years later. ” —Patricia G., 57 (married 32 years)

4. A Chance Encounter 10 Years After the Fact

“It’s funny to look back on how our story began, more than 13 years ago. I was on my senior class trip with all of my friends in the Bahamas, and Mickey was there on vacation. Our two friend groups were staying at the same hotel, and after we all met, we hung out for the rest of the trip. Little did we know then that we had just met our life partners. We both ended up going away to college in Maryland but only loosely stayed in touch. Then, ten years after we first met, I realized we were at the same New York Rangers game when he posted a picture on Instagram. I commented on it, and he messaged me right away. It was then that we realized it was meant to be.” —Cara C., 31 (married 1 month)

5. The Drunken Wing Woman

“I was out with a group of friends at a dive-y karaoke bar (please note that I do not under any circumstances sing karaoke) when I noticed a cute girl at a nearby table. I was just out of a relationship and not looking to meet anybody, but my very drunk friend decided to play matchmaker. She marched right over to the girl, told her I had a new puppy (true!) and that she should talk to me. We ended up talking all night, and when it was time to part ways, I realized my phone had died. Very excited, the girl applied some lipstick, kissed a cocktail napkin and wrote down her digits. And that would have been a very classy end to the evening…except that when I got home and plugged my phone in, I attempted to enter her number…and ended up butt dialing her three times at two in the morning. Luckily, she still called me back the next day, and the rest, as they say, is history. We’re now married with two kids.” —Dan Q., 42 (married 7 years)

6. The Group Date Where No One Else Showed Up

“Mark and I were colleagues at a newspaper. I offered to cover a Mets game for work, and because I knew he loved baseball, I asked if he wanted to come too. It was literally the second MLB game I’d ever been to in my life, but I was trying to get him outside the office. He agreed, and we were both obviously excited, but when the rest of our team found out, they wanted to come too! Thankfully none of them actually showed up, and we spent the day together. We’ve been together ever since, and while we were traveling last year—after deciding to quit our jobs, move into a camper and drive around the country—he proposed on the beach in Florida.” —Diana C., 27 (engaged 10 months)

7. A ‘Three’s Company’ Situation

“I had been living alone with my dog in Hollywood in an overpriced apartment for a few years when my friend from school, Rebecca, made me an offer. She was living in a three-bedroom house with a yard and kept urging me to move in with her and her soon-to-be third roommate, Connor, a friend she knew from when she lived in North Carolina. I wasn’t sure if I wanted roommates again or how it would be to live with a guy I didn’t know, but ultimately, I decided to move in. Later that year, Rebecca went traveling, and while she was gone, Connor and I fell in love. Fast-forward three years and we’re engaged and have a baby boy.” —Sara T., 30 (engaged 9 months)

8. The One Who Trusted Her Intuition

“I was an event director at a nursing home, and Bienvenido—Ben for short—from Paraguay, was doing a carpentry job there. We were friendly and would say hello to each other often, until one day he came up to me and said, ‘It’s my last day on this job, I’mleaving, you know.’ I was like, ‘OK! Nice meeting you. Bye!’ And he responded, ‘No, no, like, I’m leaving to go back to my country. Would you like to go out to dinner with me?’ I said, ‘OK, I guess.’ I grabbed a pen, and as I turned to give it to him to write his number, I had a fleeting thought: ‘This is the man I’m going to marry.’ We had our first date on Christmas at my parents’apartment. I invited him over for dinner since he didn’t have any family in the country. We ended up getting married that same year. ” —Codi G., 62 (married 21 years)

9. The Flight Delay with a Rose-Colored Lining

“As I waited at my gate to fly home for Christmas during my freshman year of college, I recognized a face from school sitting across from me. We’d never talked, but our school was so small that I already knew his name was Phillip. Ice storms kept delaying our flight, so I decided to talk to him. I found out he was flying standby to Atlanta and had been waiting all day in the airport.

“When it came time to board, he was called to the desk and got the very last seat on the plane. We walked the tight aisle in the commuter jet until I found my seat, 5C. After trading seats with the woman who would’ve been my neighbor, Phillip and I were sitting together. When the flight attendant announced it was time to turn off our electronic devices, I couldn’t find my phone and he offered to call it for me. Once we landed, I had to rush to catch a connection. When I got to my new gate, I scrolled through texts from my roommate and my mom, and there was a text from a number I didn’t recognize. The message read: ‘Have a safe flight—Phillip.’” —Hillary J., 27 (married 5 years)

10. The One Where She Fell In Love with His Family First

“I actually met my husband’s family before I met him. I went to his eldest brother’s engagement party because I was friends with his fiancée, my now sister-in-law. (My now-husband was absent because he was in the Navy.) His family was a blast, and I thought, ‘I’d love to meet someone for myself with a family like this.’ We finally met each other at their wedding and immediately hit it off. We danced, we ate, we drank...we were caught kissing outside of the reception hall. I went with him to his family’s home for the after-party and gave him my phone number, which he used the next day. He eventually got orders to relocate to Spain and thought we would break up, but I said, ‘Great, I’m in!’ We rented an apartment there that ended up being our home for the next five years before we eventually got married and I couldn’t be happier. ” —Janice G., 59 (married 36 years)

6 Sweet How We Met Stories From Real Couples

Photo by Liz Fogarty Photography

The only thing that's better than the moment when a couple finally gets together in a rom-com is the moment when they first meet. And the only thing that's better than that moment in the movies is when it happens IRL!

Here are six super-sweet how we met stories from real couples that will have you falling in love with love all over again.

01 of 06

Natalie & Kevin

Married 5 years, currently living in Chicago.

(As told by Natalie) Our love story started well before either of us were actually born. Our moms became fast and dear friends as young working professionals in Chicago, and motherhood came at a similar time for them. That's when Kevin and I entered the picture. Growing up, our families went on countless trips to Disney World, the Rocky Mountains, and various campsites together. On our trips, Kevin and my only brother Andrew were the closest in age, so they bonded quickly. (Kevin's older brother Kyle befriended me to make sure I never felt excluded.) I always remember thinking, Oh, Kevin is cute, but we grew up in different suburbs, went to different schools, and lived very different lives. There was no way our paths would ever cross "like that," until they did. My brother Andrew was getting married—to one of my mom's other best friend's daughters, believe it or not—and I needed a date to the wedding. I happened to be on vacation with my mom and Kevin's mom—did I mention Kevin’s mother is also my godmother?—and she casually said, Oh, just go with Kev. He's already going to be there, and he'll definitely dance with you and tell you look pretty.

Andrew's wedding was the first night we truly got to enjoy each other not on a family vacation or around a dinner table. Sparks flew, but we kept them a secret knowing it could be chaos if things crumbled, so we took the time to make sure we were both all in before telling our families. In December we’ll have been married five years and just welcomed our son last September. It's been a joy that our family friends are now officially family. And it doesn't hurt that I've known my in-laws (on both sides!) my entire life.

02 of 06

Svetlana & Lev

Married 59 years, currently living in Bensalem, PA.

(As told by the couple’s daughter Tanya and granddaughter Emily) Svetlana and Lev have no photos from their wedding in 1961. They got married with a stranger as their witness in the country of Georgia. Both children of the war who survived the Holocaust as infants, Svetlana and Lev met as 14-year-old schoolchildren in Ukraine. He was the popular guy from a wealthy family, and she was the sweet, studious girl who came from nothing. Lev bullied Svetlana by pulling on her pigtails and making her do his homework. Little did Svetlana know, that was Lev's way of expressing his crush on her.

Svetlana lived in such extreme poverty that Lev organized a drive through his school to get her a warm winter coat. Their love developed into their teen years, but the draft called Lev, at age 18, to the army for three years. This did not stop them. He was drafted in Georgia, where their love story came full circle. After exchanging many letters, she finally made the journey to not only visit him but marry him. During those times, it was very brave for a young girl to travel by herself in Soviet Russia. Lev was allowed only a few hours away from base to see his bride. He brought along a fellow soldier as a witness at the local city hall. The papers were signed and they celebrated with khinkali (Georgian dumplings).

This incredible match went on to grow a beautiful family of three daughters, and Svetlana and Lev immigrated to America through a Jewish refugee program in 1996. To this day, they still sing to each other and make each other laugh.

03 of 06

Lyssa & John

Together 9 years, set to wed this October. Lyssa is currently living in Charleroi, PA, and John is in Brampton, Ontario.

(As told by Lyssa) In 2011, I was 14 years old, had just finished eighth grade and was bored on the internet. I started a Tumblr to blog about cute cupcake recipes. An amazing online friend I had made through the blog, Janeen, introduced me to a boy a year-and-a-half older than me named John, thinking we’d get along. Soon enough, my summer became me, glued to a screen and completely enamored with talking to this boy. We stayed up into the wee hours of the morning chatting, playing video games, and hitting play at the same time on the movies and TV shows we watched together.

On October 7th, John asked me to be his girlfriend—with a typo! I still have the screenshot and tease him about it to this day. That January, we met in person under our parents’ supervision. Meeting your online boyfriend—and first boyfriend—along with his parents for the first time is a terrifyingly awkward experience, but it’s one that I’d do again in a heartbeat.

COVID has left the Canadian border closed to non-citizens, which means we haven’t really been able to see each other, but we’re still planning our wedding.

We continued to Skype every day. I got a passport, and we would take 16-hour bus rides back and forth every chance we got. We felt so serious about each other that during our first summer together, we saved up enough to buy rings that we still wear to this day. We made it through high school and college long-distance, and just this past December, he proposed! COVID has left the Canadian border closed to non-citizens, which means we haven’t really been able to see each other, but we’re still planning our wedding. We may have to jump through extra hoops, but being with him is worth it. I’m so happy that a baking blog I made when I was 14 helped me find my future husband!

04 of 06

Ericka & TK

Married 13 months, currently living in Fredericksburg, VA.

(As told by Ericka) Our story begins in 2006 when I was an incoming freshman at Howard University. My twin sister and I needed to confirm our housing arrangements and visited the Office of Residence Life, where I first saw TK. The first thing I noticed besides his gaze were his dimples. Wow, he’s cute, I thought.

Our staring must’ve been noticeable because the administrator in the room said to me, “Don’t even bother ... he’s nothing but trouble.” After that encounter, we would see each other around campus and in the dorms, but I definitely kept my distance.

Two years later we had our next encounter, and it was not pleasant. My sister and I were both RAs, and she was working the front desk of a dorm when TK attempted to enter the dorm without showing his ID. (He was the resident assistant of the building the year prior.) My sister wasn’t having it and an argument ensued. I somehow happened to come down at the same time and, seeing my sister arguing, I began arguing with TK, too. The community director came and broke up the argument, but that wasn’t the last time I’d see TK.

The next day I received a message from the community director to meet in his office. Though I figured it was regarding the incident from the day prior, it was to my chagrin when I walked in and saw TK sitting there. Realizing this was a flex of sorts, I allowed the community director to make small talk, all while never making eye contact with TK. Once the community director finished, I simply asked if that was all, got up without even glancing in TK’s direction, and left. I refused to give him even the slightest amount of satisfaction by making eye contact with him. (It wasn’t until after he proposed that TK told me he had asked for the community director to call me down specifically so he could formally meet me.)

Four years pass. One day while on Facebook I get a “poke” from TK. I respond saying, I think you poked me on accident. We don’t like each other, remember? He responds back: No, I poked you on purpose. I know exactly who you are ... and I never said I didn’t like you.

From there, we casually dated and I realized he wasn’t half bad. He was actually kind of sweet, but planned on going away for training prior to being deployed. I had no interest in dating someone in the military due to the likelihood of constant relocations and maintaining a long-distance relationship. We decided to end things and remain friends. TK would always check up on me and invite me to wherever he was stationed, but I never obliged. Upon his return from deployment, he let me know that he wanted to begin seriously dating. I, unfortunately, was in another relationship at the time. His response: That’s fine. I can wait. It’s just a matter of time.

We went our separate ways. I moved to NYC, he had a child. But he would always remain in touch. In the fall of 2017, he reached out again, and this time something seemed different. He was very intentional. He made it clear that he saw me as his “Claire Huxtable” and he refused to let me get away. By March of 2018, he asked my parents for my hand on marriage, and by August we were engaged.

05 of 06

Christy & Jeremy

Married 9 years, currently living in Philadelphia.

(As told by Christy) I moved to Philly from Indiana in 2008 for an editor position at a magazine. One of my first features was a dating package. It had three parts: hot singles, where to meet people, and a story about what it’s like to date in Philly. The premise was stunt journalism—go on Match.com, go speed-dating, get set up by a matchmaker, find some of your own dates, etc. I had a writer lined up for the story, but he got really disenchanted and bailed maybe a month before the story was due. So a co-worker convinced me to write it myself because I was single, and, having conceived of the story, I knew how to do it.

I went on maybe 30 dates, one almost every night for a month. It was exhausting, but I wasn’t doing it to meet anyone—I was doing it because it was my job.

There was one guy on Match.com who I really liked. His screen name was something like “Big Fan of Pancakes,” and we changed it to waffles in the story for anonymity. I waited and waited, and finally, he asked me out. We had a super great first date. It felt really refreshing because I had been on a lot of dates and they were all meh. (Some had actually been truly bad.) The next day I get a text from him: Hey, had a really good time last night. Can’t wait to see you again. I wrote back: Me too. And then I literally never heard from him again.

When the story was published, I got a lot of letters. (Mostly from women, who identified with it.) And then one night I got an email from a guy. It said: Hey, I liked your story. It made me laugh. I came out of a five-year relationship last year, and it is different dating when you’re 30 than it is when you’re 25. I wrote back, because at the time we still ran “Letters to the Editor,” and I asked if we could run his. He said no, that it would be embarrassing. But we emailed back and forth for a few days. And then he was like, Listen, I know this is a little weird, but I feel like we should meet. And I said, Well, I just went out with 30 random dudes. Nothing’s weird anymore.

And that is how I met my husband.

06 of 06

Grace & Scott

Married 17 months, currently living in Tarboro, NC.

(As told by Grace) It was July 4th weekend, and my mother and I were hitting some antique stores in a nearby town before my family headed to the lake for the holiday. I wanted to check out one shop in particular that had great original art and antiques. A few minutes into our visit, we were in a light-hearted conversation with the owner about where we were from, but our chat was interrupted when someone came in to buy a bottle of furniture polish. Based on the amount of conversation I overheard, he obviously knew the owner. To my embarrassment, when he left, my mother asked the store owner if the guy was single and close to my age. (I blew this off as her trying to make me blush before we headed off for lunch.)

I did not think about the interaction again until the Monday after the holiday. Mid-morning, I received a call on my cell phone from the owner of the store that we had visited the week before. I quickly began retracing my steps to think if I had left a credit card or something in the shop, but he explained that he had attended a Fourth of July cookout that weekend and Scott, the man who bought the furniture polish, had also attended. In small-town North Carolina fashion, the store owner had called around town asking people for my number, because apparently I had caught Scott’s attention, and the store owner wanted to know if he could pass my number along to him. He continued to say that he had a good track record of setting up couples and reminded me that my mother had also mentioned Scott in the store. I was shocked and frankly, speechless. The whole thing seemed bizarre, but I took a chance and said yes. Two days later I received a phone call. A week later we went on our first date. Three years later we were married in my hometown. The owner of the shop attended the wedding, and he and my mother take full credit for our relationship.

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Meet the man who made the whole world grow old, change gender and smile

Afisha Daily spoke with Yaroslav Goncharov, a Russian developer and entrepreneur responsible for FaceApp, one of the most popular applications in the world today.

The FaceApp application, created by a team of Russian developers, has gained phenomenal popularity around the world since the beginning of 2017. The service allows you to process portraits, turning a young person into an old man, changing gender to the opposite one, or adding a smile - and it does it all as realistically as possible. FaceApp has already managed to get to the first place in the list of the most popular applications of the Google Play store and in the Russian App Store.

How FaceApp was born

“FaceApp was born at the intersection of two important trends. The first is the ever-growing importance of photos and videos. There is an opinion that stories from Snapchat, Instagram and their analogues will soon kill news feeds like Twitter. Facebook is already moving in this direction. The second trend is neural networks. This is the name of a simplified analogue of the human brain, implemented in computer code. To create it, they build a huge network of software simulations of neurons and synapses, capable of analyzing and remembering information. Such technologies underlie machine learning, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and much more. I have been doing this for quite a long time - I trained the first neural network about ten years ago.

I worked at Microsoft in Redmond, USA, and in the evenings I wrote a bot that I could play poker with. The neural network was only a small, evaluative part of this bot - there were no opportunities to create a solution based entirely on the neural network. After that, I worked on several projects related to deep learning, on a project related to speech analysis. And about a year ago I decided to use this progressive technology for photo processing. And that's how FaceApp came about."

How a neural network changes photos

“It differs from more traditional algorithms in that it can learn. Making a photo smile using simple algorithms is an incredibly difficult task: you need to determine the ratio of parts of the face, the angle of illumination, and much more. And for each photo, this will be a separate task. The FaceApp neural network works differently. We ran millions of photographs through her, which she analyzed and tried to find patterns in the appearance of people. As a result, FaceApp learned to draw conclusions about how facial expressions will change and think about how a person will look when he smiles or grows old. The choice of details - for example, adding a long or short hairstyle when changing gender - also depends on the "experience" of the application, that is, which hairstyles were more often worn by people with a similar type of face in the analyzed photos.

What is the phenomenon of popularity and how long will it last

“It's quite simple: people today have a huge interest in their photos, photos of friends and celebrities. And, of course, a unique tool for interacting with this significant resource immediately becomes important. If we talk about the stages, at the start we were helped by my acquaintance with journalists from Western technology media - The Verge, TechCrunch - we managed to present the project, they were interested, and they wrote about it. This is how advanced users in technology learned about the application, and then it rolled like a snowball. An important role here was played by the virality of the application, on which we staked: the fact that it is interesting to discuss it.

How long the interest will last, of course, I cannot accurately predict, but, like any hype phenomenon (I have no illusions, FaceApp is pure hype), it has stages: rise, peak and decline. I can say that the peak has not yet come - although the number of downloads has exceeded one million per day, it continues to grow. There will be a recession, but this does not bother me very much, we have an application development strategy.

We initially proceeded from the fact that at the first stage the product should be viral, that is, to attract attention. The next step is to make it useful, like adding filters that will enhance your photos. I can't tell you the details, but I'll give an example. Meitu, a Chinese company with a capitalization of about $ 5 billion, makes phones and does a lot of other things, but first of all it builds its business on improving selfies. And I believe that with our technology, this can be done at a new level.”

Hot filter and racism

“I would prefer not to comment on this topic. All I can say is in the company's official statement. “We offer our deepest apologies for this, without a doubt, serious incident. This is an unfortunate neural network side effect that happened due to bias in the data the network was trained on, not intentional. We have renamed the filter to eliminate any positive connotation associated with it. We are also working on a complete fix for the app and expect to do so soon."

Application monetization

“There are two options - long-term and short-term. The first is filter branding, which is what Snapchat does with Looksery (Snapchat bought a Ukrainian company for $150 million - Ed. ). The company comes, for example, to Starbucks and offers to make a branded lens with the name of the coffee chain. Starbucks pays $750,000 for one day of having such a filter on the social network. And everyone is happy in the end: users are having fun with really cool and funny filters, millions of people see the brand, and Snapchat gets money. This beautiful story comes from the gigantic audience of the social network. Of course, for such projects it is not necessary to reach the size of Snapchat, but it is still a very long-term goal. The second, quickest way is to take money for advanced functionality, for example, additional filters. At the same time, we want the main functionality of the application to be always free. There is another option: selling the application by subscription, but, objectively, this is unlikely to work - the product for this should be very cool.

The guys at MSQRD and Looksery have some really cool deals: with the help of the giants Facebook and Snapchat, who have added their services to their platforms, they have a powerful synergy. But, I think, they did not have goals to make an application that could be successfully sold. We do not have such a goal either. There is some kind of inferiority of motivation in this, and I don’t think that anything good can be done this way. But if there is a proposal that will increase the overall social significance of the project, I, of course, will consider it with pleasure. We are now looking for investors, and the April boom played into our hands in this sense - we proved that FaceApp is a strong and interesting application. Still, the first place in the American App Store is no joke.”

What should we expect from photo processing in the future? And, I think, it will be more interesting if VR and AR look like a familiar reality, in them it will be possible to interact with characters who look like real people, to see their changing emotions, and not just with drawn characters and masks. Now everything rests only on the fact that there are no good devices for AR and VR. But as soon as they appear, I think that this technology will have an incredible rise. And fantasizing about improving a photo is already boring - yes, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow it will become possible with the help of applications from an ordinary good quality photo to make a perfect selfie.

But this is no longer about the future, we must move on.

What is happening now is only the beginning. It can be said that we have begun not to dig, but to scratch the surface of the possibilities of neural networks with our fingernails. The speed of technology development is incredible, the potential is huge, and soon they will play a significant role in our lives. From recent examples, how Google has significantly improved its translations with the help of artificial intelligence, and from more distant prospects, the large-scale implementation of unmanned vehicles, which will be controlled by software based on neural networks.”

A lot of talented players come to the NBA from the college league every year. Not every one of those who were drafted by teams gets their chance to shine in the best league in the world. There was one unique case in history. Meet the owner of the shortest career in the NBA - Jameson Curry.

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Curry was first talked about when he was in high school. Playing for a team from Meben in his native North Carolina, he was one of the most promising players at the US high school basketball level. In his senior year, Jameson averaged 40.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 6 assists per game. In February 2004, he set a state record for scoring (recently beaten by Chicago defenseman Kobe White). In four years, Curry shot 3,307 points. According to this indicator, he bypassed Michael Jordan, David Thompson and James Worthy.

But the next morning, something happened that would turn his whole career upside down. The young talent went to school for classes, but was called to the director's office. There they were already waiting for him - that's just not the director, but the police officers. Curry himself admitted: at first he thought that they would ask for autographs. But law enforcement officers came for something completely different - the player was arrested, like his three teammates. It was later revealed that Jameson sold marijuana to an undercover cop four times. Curry was found guilty at trial. He was assigned 36 months of probation and 200 hours of community service. The player was expelled from Eastern Alamance High School. And the University of North Carolina, where he was supposed to continue his studies, deprived him of his scholarship.

Curry was very unlucky, but his career was not ruined at a very early stage. Jameson played in the NCAA for the University of Oklahoma, where he played three outstanding seasons and attracted interest from NBA clubs.

In 2007, Jameson entered the draft. He was drafted by Chicago with the 51st pick and immediately sent to the Development League. There he played a year, after which he was expelled from the Bulls. Curry himself believes that the cause was two unpleasant incidents. The first came after a G-League exhibition match in 2008. The police caught the player outside the hotel when he was urinating on the street. Curry tried to run away, but was eventually apprehended and charged with two misdemeanors. In addition, Curry missed the plane to New York, where his team had the next game. He got lost in Chicago on his way to the airport.

“This is not the only reason why I didn't get into the NBA. Being late for that plane ruined everything, ”Curry admitted.

After leaving the Bulls, Curry spent two years in Europe playing in the French and Cypriot championships. From there, he returned to the Development League, where he played for the Springfield Armor of Massachusetts (the current Grand Rapids Gold). Jameson was the star of the team when he was brought to the attention of the Clippers. Curry signed a 10-day deal with the Los Angeles club and was ready for his long-awaited NBA debut.

He first appeared on the court three days after signing the contract. It happened on January 25, 2010, at the end of the third quarter in a match with the Boston Celtics. But Curry's debut lasted literally a matter of seconds. Here is head coach Mike Dunleavy Sr. letting him out on the court. Curry enters the game and rushes to patronize Rajon Rondo. He takes a few steps to the side to make room for the passage of Ray Allen. It takes only a couple of seconds, and the siren sounds. That's all. Allen does not have time to attack the ring before the end of the segment, while Curry leaves the site. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, a young DeAndre Jordan comes out instead.

Jameson only played 3.9 seconds in that match. Not only did he not manage to score a single point, but he did not even touch the ball. For Curry, this performance was the first and last in the NBA. Already 12 hours later, he will be expelled from the Clippers to sign Bobby Brown. In the history of the league, there were nine players who ended up on the court for less than a minute. But none of them played less than four seconds, making Curry the player with the shortest career in the NBA.

“When you think about it, I'm probably the highest paid player per second in NBA history. Those were the fastest four seconds of my life. I would like them to last longer. Being there, I just felt like an ordinary person, an ordinary basketball player. I felt that I was at home, that my place was there, ”recalls Curry.

Subsequently, Curry returned to the Development League - there, in the Springfield Armor. After a second consecutive successful season (averaging 17.3 points and 6.3 assists), he expected to get an offer from the NBA. Head coach Bob McKinnon also pinned hopes for the departure of the defender. But this never happened. Curry decided to try his hand again in Europe, but ended up in the Development League anyway. And after the next return, his results became noticeably worse. Curry began to receive much less playing time. So from Springfield, he was traded to Bakersfield Jam (the current Motor City Cruise), from where he was expelled a few months later. It was all to blame for an ankle injury, due to which the defender was forced to miss the rest of the season. Thus ended his basketball career.

For the next couple of years, Curry would be plagued by legal trouble.