Charlotte Wilder

USA Today Network

Riley Curry isn’t very active on Twitter. The 29-year-old home inspector, who lives in Nashville, will check his account every day, but only to get the news. He doesn’t follow many people, nor does he have that many followers, and he hardly ever uses the service to interact with others.

But his experience with the platform changed entirely, he says, when strangers started thinking his Twitter handle belonged to Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry’s 3-year-old daughter, also named Riley Curry.

The 29-year-old Curry is no stranger to national media attention. As a junior in college in 2007, he scored an incredible touchdown for Trinity University against Millsap's College. The play — which included 15 laterals — became known as “The Miracle in Mississippi,” and it’s the longest drive in college history. It was named ESPN’s Pontiac Game Changing performance of the year.

Watch it, it’s insane.

“I touched the ball four times on that play before I scored,” Curry said. “So I’m running out of bounds, and I lateral it backwards, and I’m on the sidelines for a second with my teammates who aren’t on the field. I just giggled with them for a moment and then ran back and kept going. I kept wondering, ‘When is this going to end? I’m actually really tired of running around.’ But whatever, it all to worked out.”

What hasn’t worked out as well for Curry is his recent experience on social media. Before 2015, he hardly ever got mentions or messages on either Twitter or Instagram. But one day in late May of last year, all of that changed.

“All of a sudden, I was being tagged in pictures of Steph Curry on Instagram,” Curry said. “And I didn’t really know what his wife or daughter even looked like, but there I was, getting tagged.”

This was due, of course, to The Cutest Press Conference That Has Ever Happened, when a different Riley Curry crawled into both her dad’s lap and the hearts of million of Americans. In case you need reminding, here’s the moment in all of its adorableness.

The 29-year-old Riley Curry deleted his Instagram after all the barrage of tags kept coming. But he kept his Twitter account, and after the press conference, he started getting mentions meant for Steph’s daughter there, too. They started out innocuous enough.

“Some were sweet,” Curry said. “And some of them were bad, but not all that bad —telling her there’s no Santa, her dad sucks, blah blah blah.”

But then things took a turn.

“Since then it’s been stuff like, ‘You should tell your parents to kill themselves,'” Curry said. “All this stuff that is just awful. The problem isn’t about me being bothered or offended or getting my feelings hurt. It’s the fact that on social media, people say whatever they want without there being any accountability or consequences. People say these awful things potentially to a three-year-old little girl. It’s alarming and kind of sad.”

This past week was particularly bad. Because before and during Game 7 of the NBA Finals, when Steph Curry’s Warriors and LeBron James’ Cavaliers faced off in an epic match-up, people once again sent the 29-year-old Riley Curry terrible things meant for a three-year-old by the same name.

Curry recently went public with the levels of abuse he’s been fielding. Here’s what he tweeted about the whole experience.

Curry, who grew up in Houston and is still a big Rockets fan, was traveling last night and wasn’t able to watch the game — he was bummed to get home about 15 seconds after the final buzzer. But, while all of this has been particularly unpleasant, Curry did manage to have a little fun before his plane took off.

Does the 29-year-old hope all this abuse meant for a three-year-old dies down soon?

“Yeah,” he said. “That’d be awesome.”

This story was first published on Forthewin.com, which is part of the USA Today Network.