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Skip Bayless, Brian Windhorst have hot takes about Stephen Curry’s daughter

By Matt Verderame

Jun 21, 2012; Miami, FL, USA; ESPN reporters and tv personalities Stephen A. Smith (left) and Skip Bayless (right) prior to the start of game five in the 2012 NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Miami Heat at the American Airlines Arena. Mandatory Credit: Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports
Jun 21, 2012; Miami, FL, USA; ESPN reporters and tv personalities Stephen A. Smith (left) and Skip Bayless (right) prior to the start of game five in the 2012 NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Miami Heat at the American Airlines Arena. Mandatory Credit: Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports /
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Most everybody who follows sports and has ever heard Skip Bayless talk can agree that’s he a motormouth without much substance. Bayless, who used to be a great sportswriter for the Dallas Morning News, has become a mouthpiece for anything and everything. Somehow, Bayless makes millions of dollars to talk about absolute nonsense.

On Wednesday morning, Bayless and ESPN reporter Brian Windhorst, who is respectable, discussed the postgame press conference following the Golden State Warriors win over the Houston Rockets in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals on Tuesday night. Warriors guard Stephen Curry had his 2-year-old daughter, Riley, on his lap during the scrum and she liked to talk.

The kid was cute and entertaining, creating some laughter in a normally boring situation. Bayless and Windhorst were having none of it, leading to this exchange, per Bomani Jones:

"“As a member of the media – even though I know it’s cute and great for social media – who wants to ask the players about the game in a business setting, it is counterproductive,” Windhorst said. “It takes away from being able to ask the questions.”“She did steal the show last night, which was exactly what I didn’t want to happen,” Bayless said. “[Steph] had a job to do. [Journalists] are on a tough deadline. They need their quotes and they need to feed their sound or their tape or write their stories. They need quick quotes from Steph about what happening in the fascinating conclusion to the game. I wanted to hear about it because I’m such a Steph fan. I’m sitting in my living room watching this live feed, and Riley is adorable but I’ve seen enough. I’m trying to listen to what Steph’s saying and I can’t even follow it because he can’t complete a sentence because she’s interrupting. After I while I have no idea what Steph said and I badly wanted to hear what he had to say. It got completely disrupted by little Riley stealing the show…it really hurt the process of the journalists getting their quotes from Steph.I don’t hate children, I’m not an ogre,. The NBA’s going to have to make a call to preserve the sanctity of the postgame."

This is so insane, it’s tough to know where to begin. If you read Bayless’ quote and didn’t know who he was, you would bet this was a 6-year-old kid talking about his little sister. Skip, you are a 63-year-old man. Maybe it’s time to relax a bit and let Curry bring his kid on stage with him. As for Windhorst, nobody is going to ask any Earth-shattering question. At least the postgame was entertaining for once. And speaking of the postgame…

The sanctity of the postgame? When has there ever been sanctity? All those things have are reporters screaming over each other so the player can give some bland quote.

When was the last time Curry had a great quote in a presser? Riley wasn’t interrupting Muhaamad Ali before a Joe Frazier fight. It was a nice, well-mannered kid in Stephen Curry after Game 1. It’s safe to assume Curry wasn’t going to say anything that would be making the back page.

As for being a big Steph fan and needing to hear what he had to say, get over it. You will have plenty more chances.

How about restoring the sanctity of sports journalism and retiring?

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