Cameron Brink whispered something in Stephen Curry’s ear when she was eight years old. Curry was a close family friend and a highly skilled collegiate basketball player at the time, whom she called her “god-brother.”

A decade away from becoming her own collegiate basketball legend, Brink’s sole interests were in painting and costume design. This Friday, Stanford is expected to compete in the NCAA women’s Final Four.

After Curry’s stunning return to the national spotlight as a Davidson College player during the NCAA tournament, her family flew to Detroit to show their support. Since college, their mothers had been closest friends.

The genuine, private moment was witnessed by Cameron’s mother prior to the team leaving the hotel for their Sweet 16 encounter. She gets choked up thinking about it.

“What did she say to you?” Shelly Bain-Brink asked Curry.

He answered, “You can be somebody if you believe in yourself,” the woman continued.

They laugh about it now. Curry is one of the best players in NBA history, having led the Golden State Warriors to three NBA championships.

But his family tells him he’s never won an NCAA championship.

This weekend, Cameron Brink could win her second.

Sonya Curry, their mother, said in an interview on Thursday that her son Stephen and his NBA sibling Seth “cannot brag about” receiving such an honor.

Until the fifth or sixth grade, Cameron had no desire to participate in athletics. Sonya Curry said that when the Currys would bring it up, “she would say, ‘I’m an artist.’” “It’s truly amazing to see what she’s doing now,”

Recuperated from a foot injury, Stephen plans to watch the game at home with his family. But with the Brinks in the stands, Sonya Curry will be watching the Cardinals take on the illustrious Connecticut women’s basketball team on Friday in Minneapolis in an attempt to make it to the national championship game on Sunday. While the Curry brothers have Shelly as their godmother, the two Brinks children have Sonya.Because the Curry families are so close, the Brinks travel from their home in the Portland area to stay as guests of Steph and Ayesha Curry in Atherton for every Stanford home game. “We call it ‘Spa Curry,'” says Brink. Cameron and her fiance, Stanford rower Ben Felter, frequently have dinner there.

The families grew close at Virginia Tech, where Sonya played volleyball and Shelly basketball before moving in together as housemates. The basketball players Dell Curry and Greg Brink, who would become their spouses, lived in the male section of their hostel.

Shelly Brink has a number of photos of Steph and Cameron that she keeps on her phone and posts to her fridge, capturing their close bond. Steph, 13, can be seen wearing her white baptismal gown and carrying Cameron. Once more, after a span of five years, he is there, proposing to drive Cameron and her pink purse across the Davidson campus.

Photograph after photograph of the two families may be found at graduation ceremonies, bridal showers, and basketball games.

On Thursday, Cameron was unavailable for an interview. However, her mother claimed to detest the picture of her wearing glasses and braces at the age of ten as Steph was teaching her the proper grip for a basketball and the fundamentals of a jump shot. There are also the ones she adores, with her and Steph side by side when she was 12 and barely topped his 6-foot-3 frame, and the one two years later when she overtook him at 6-foot-4, causing Steph to giggle by standing on a chair beside her.The Currys started their family ten years before the Brinks, and all three of the Curry kids were present at the Brinks’ wedding. They have lived in several states and foreign countries over the past 20 years, especially after Dell Curry played for five different NBA teams and the Brinks pursued their careers with Nike, but they have always found time to visit each other. When the photo of the bespectacled Cameron was taken, the Brinks were living in Amsterdam. Cameron had been convinced to go to Dell Curry’s annual basketball camp in Charlotte, North Carolina, during his summer break.