Okay, so hate is a strong word, and it’s meant only tongue-in-check. I mean, the sophomore helps whip App State, goes perfect through the league, takes the SoCon title, clutches March Maddness by the throat and comes just one downtown buzzer beater short of making the Final Four. What’s not to hate envy?

And just when you thought you could get no greener, he goes and gets a big Sports Illustrated profile in which we learn he was once in the middle of a hotness sandwich.

DANICA AND ANNIKA may sound like a Saturday Night Live duo on the order of Hans and Franz, but during a midsummer night in Los Angeles they induced schoolboy panic in Davidson guard Stephen Curry, the baby-faced breakout star of March Madness. When Danica Patrick and Annika Sorenstam, glammed-up for the ESPY Awards, stepped into his hotel elevator on their way to the show, they instantly recognized their fellow nominee and said hello. Betraying little of the cold-blooded shooter who lit up Gonzaga, Georgetown, Wisconsin and Kansas for 128 points during the NCAA tournament, Curry melted like, well, a starstruck college kid.

“Here are two great-looking ladies I’d seen on TV,” says Curry, a five-handicap golfer who’d admired Sorenstam for years. “But I started stuttering because I was all nervous. My dad was laughing at me.”

Later, he sat beside Michelle Wie and signed an autograph for Anna Kournikova. He was seen leaving the show with Jennie Finch.*

* Entirely not true, but would you be surprised?