It’s NOT OK For Steph Curry To Dress Up As The Grinch For Christmas

Just when you thought the Warriors season couldn’t get any worse, injured Steph Curry had to go and try to spread holiday cheer.

The other day on Instagram, Steph Curry posted some photos of him and his wife getting into the holiday spirit by dressing up as The Grinch and Cindy Lou Who.

Look, not to Ebenezer Scrooge this moment, but his really pisses me off. For a couple of reasons.

First of all, if you’re trying to spread holiday cheer, why would you go around dressed as one of the worst characters in Christmas movie history. The dude literally despises the Christmas season and everything that comes with it. Plus, on top of that the guy clearly has a heart problem. It’s three sizes too small, and he’s probably going to die soon because of it.

You shouldn’t dress up as The Grinch to spread holiday cheer for the same reason you shouldn’t dress up as Harry and Marv from Home Alone, or the Abominable Snowman from Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. Nobody is dressing up as Jasper from The Holiday or Hans Gruber from Die Hard.

Also, another reason that we’re severely overlooking: unless you’re a mall Santa, you shouldn’t be dressing up in costumes for Christmas anyway. Christmas isn’t a “costume holiday.” Outside of a tacky sweater, this isn’t a time of year to dress up. No one ever asks: “What are you going as for Christmas this year?” Why? Because you don’t dress up for it.

You don’t dress up in costume for Christmas for the same reason you don’t dress up in costume for Flag Day. You don’t see anyone getting full-blown Hollywood makeup done to dress up in costume for President’s Day. So why should Christmas be any different? Leave the role playing for Halloween, or if you and your wife are into some kinky stuff, the bedroom. But especially don’t post about it online.

The only reason this doesn’t seem weird to anyone is because Steph Curry is famous. For some reason, famous people can get away with the weirdest crap.

If you had a friend from high school named Dave, and you saw Dave post a photo of himself dressed in full head-to-toe Hollywood wardrobe and makeup as The Grinch, you would immediately screenshot it and send it in your group text with your high school friends: “WTF?! Dave dressedup as The Grinch for Christmas?!” It’d be weird as hell. And then every time you saw Dave from there on out, you’d think about the fact that he spent 5 hours applying makeup to look like Dr. Suess’s douchey-est character.

Let’s take it a step further, not even just someone you know, but how many NBA legends could you see doing something like this? People ask all the time: is Steph Curry a hall of famer? I say maybe… only if we can scrub the internet of pictures of him going Dr. Suess cosplay.

You’d never see Bill Russell or Larry Bird using Christmas as Comic-Con. Michael Jordan was far from the best dresser with his closet full of pleather suits and baggy, fake-patched mom jeans but you’d never see him dress up as Mayor Augustus Maywho (or really any of the Who’s from Whoville for that matter).

The only NBA legend you’d see dressed like that is Dennis Rodman, and that’s only because he dressed like that everyday.

Now look, I fully understand the irony in the fact that I’m hating on Steph Curry trying to spread holiday cheer with a little game of dress-up, but that doesn’t make the fact that he did it any less ridiculous. Just because you’re rich and you can have a team of people come over to your house, apply 5-hours worth of makeup to make you look like Jim Carey’s worst movie role, and post about it all on Instagram, doesn’t mean you should.

Remember how David Stern implemented a dress code for players showing up to the arena? Adam Silver should implement a dress code for players OUTSIDE of the arena. The first rule on that dress code: NO COSTUMES DURING CHRISTMAS!

The second rule: if Kanye would wear it, you shouldn’t.

The only argument I could see for doing this is, “They dressed up to hand out gifts to sick children and/or the less fortunate.” Which is a fair argument, but to that I’d say why not dress up as, I don’t know, YOURSELF! You’re already famous! If a young boy has their choice of getting their gift delivered by the greatest 3-point shooter in the history of the National Basketball Association… ORRRR… the greatest 3-point shooter in the history of the National Basketball Association disguised as a Dr. Suess character who despises Christmas, I’m pretty sure the boy would choose the former. Mainly because if he gets his photo with him, how is he going to prove to the other boys at school that the person in that absurdly great Grinch costume is actually Stephen Curry? He can’t. And then he’ll be made fun of. And in every photo for the rest of time his friends will tease him asking, “Oh, is that you with Steph Curry too?”

Honestly, I’d something like this from Draymond, but not you, Steph. Not you.