And with 3.9 seconds left in the third quarter Curry substituted for Chris Cayman,

which marked Curry's first ever appearance in an NBA regular season game.

It just feels great.

You know, now you've been dressing out for a game, even to get that chance to be ready.

I caught my number to jump off that bench, loose at all the time.

That's the hopeful voice of James on Curry on the night of his NBA debut.

It was a historic moment for all the wrong reasons.

After his brief moment on the court, Curry never made it back, and he ended up with the shortest career ever recorded.

But basketball still changed his life in ways he never imagined.

It's Friday, January 24th.

I'm Mina Kimes.

This is ESPN Daily, presented by Dell Small Business.

Royce, hello. Hello, Mina. Royce Young is a basketball writer for ESPN. He wrote about the shortest career in NBA history.

It lasted 3.9 seconds.

Royce, it's been exactly 10 years this Saturday

since James on Curry, who I should note is not related to Steph Curry,

made his NBA debut.

I found his story fascinating because here's a guy who is seemingly on the

cusp of achieving all of his dreams and then poof, it's over, he's out of the league. How did you

go about finding him? You know, it was a really long kind of winding path to it, Mina, and it was

somewhat of a passion project, but part of me was I was kind of scared. to it, Mina, and it was somewhat of a passion project, but part of me

was I was kind of scared. I mean, that's a story outside my comfort zone a little bit to just

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