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During last year's Western Conference Finals,mov18plus | Adult Movies Online Oklahoma City Thunder star Russell Westbrook was asked about being defended by Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry — and Westbrook snickered from the interview podium in a blatant act of disrespect toward the two-time NBA MVP.

In the following game, Curry went off for 31 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists in a Golden State win over Westbrook's Thunder. The Warriors eliminated Oklahoma City from the playoffs one game later, then Curry's younger sister posted this decidedly excellent subtweet toward the snickering Westbrook.

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The entire petty subplot was a wonderful little bit of WWE-worthy drama. But it also peeled back a curtain on a bigger question that's long been bubbling up among NBA fans: Why do so many of the league's other marquee stars seem to harbor a grudge against Curry?

Marcus Thompson has covered the Warriors for the Bay Area News Group since before Curry's rookie year — so he's had a front-row seat for the undersized scorer's astonishing ascent. Coming out of tiny Davidson College in 2009, Curry was never supposed to be thisgood. An All-Star perhaps, but back-to-back MVP and one of the most popular NBA players in recent memory? No onesaw that coming.

Thompson's new book, Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry, leverages the writer's years following the star to detail Curry's improbably journey. In a new interview, Thompson says it's precisely that "miraculous rise" that's made Curry the target of "disdain" from many of his NBA peers.

"There’s a thing with he and LeBron that’s a little weird," Thompson said in a radio hit with The Big Lead's Jason McIntyre. "There was a time when LeBron and Steph were big brother and little brother and LeBron was like a mentor."

Indeed, James used to openly root for Curry when Curry was starring at Davidson. But Thompson says the relationship changed as Curry grew from a lovable NBA underdog into one of the league's titanic forces. Here's more from Thompson's interview with McIntyre.

He was a big fan of Steph, went to games at Davison, and even when [Curry] got to the NBA, they had moments where LeBron was looking at him like, ‘wow’ and then Steph kind of challenged LeBron’s status. The part that’s odd for Steph – why does that mean there has to be beef between us? He loves LeBron and respects LeBron, and he’s like, ‘because the outside world is pitting us together, why do you and I have to now have this disdain between us, I thought we were cool? … that’s the question that’s in Curry’s mind and Curry’s camp. Why do you not like me when all I did was basically respect everything you did, and follow the model you carried out? … it’s not just with LeBron … Steph wants to be accepted by all these guys. This is what he worked for. For [them] to say, ‘You’re one of us.’ It seems like they don’t want to give that to him.

During his rise to the top of the league, Thompson said, Curry "leapfrogged a whole lot of people. There’s a whole lot of people who never got the adoration Steph gets … they don’t like that. Players who were probably Hall of Famers [were saying], 'Nobody ever anointed me like this.'"

Another player Thompson cites as harboring bitterness toward Curry is Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul.

Paul, Thompson said, "was supposed to be next in line to win a championship. Then, suddenly, it was Steph … that’s another relationship where [Curry] was like, 'Oh, I look up to you,' and suddenly there is this disdain vs Steph. There’s a lot of those."

Now here's the really awesome part for drama-loving NBA fans: Curry and the Warriors could potentially face Westbrook's Thunder, Paul's Clippers andLeBron's Cavaliers in consecutive rounds of the playoffs, which begin on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Golden State's first round opponent is the Portland Trail Blazers. Their star, Damian Lillard, is an East Oakland native who grew up not far from Oracle Arena, where the Warriors play. Lillard and Curry have had some memorable one-on-one battles over the years, and Lillard would surely love to get the best of Curry in front of his own hometown fans.

So grab your popcorn, hoop-heads. The playoffs are about to start, and the actual basketball is sure to be accompanied by plenty of delightfully petty drama.