Wife of Warriors Owner Says Beyonce Fans Sent Her Death Threats After Pics, Vids Went Viral During Game 3

June 6, 2019, 2:39pm EST (Updated: January 14, 2023, 4:29pm)By Darrelle Lincoln

This entire sitaution is just crazy.

It all started during the beginning of Game 3 where camera crews caught Nicole Curran, wife of the Warriors owner, engaged in a conversation with Beyonce and Jay-Z. Beyonce’s face looked as if she was getting increasingly annoyed and that was all it took for it to go viral.

Beyonce legit wants to smack fire out the chick next to her for even breathing her oxygen & trying way too damn hard to talk to Hov.pic.twitter.com/MRy3L2SBtl
— BLACK ADAM SCHEFTER (@B1ackSchefter) June 6, 2019

ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne would soon catch up with Nicole Curran and she was in tears about the situation, because she had no clue anything was wrong until she got home and just about everybody contacted her. She also revealed she had to make her Instagram private after receiving a bunch of death threats from Beyonce fans.

Just spoke to Nicole Curran, the wife of Warriors owner Joe Lacob, about the “incident “ with Beyoncé last night. She was in tears. Said she had been getting death threats on social media all night this morning she disabled her IG account just to make it stop.
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) June 6, 2019

Curran said she had no idea anything was even amiss until she got home and started seeing texts from friends and checked her social media. She’s invited Jay Z and Beyoncé to the game 3-4 times before. Last night she says she asked if they wanted drinks. Beyoncé asked for water
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) June 6, 2019

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Curran says Jay Z asked for a vodka soda. She asked if he wanted lime with that. But it was loud in Oracle and she couldn’t hear, so she leaned over. That’s where the photos of Beyoncé looking askance at her come from.
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) June 6, 2019

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Curran says she then went to go get them those drinks. “There was no hostility. I was trying to be a good hostess,” she said. “I’ve never experienced cyber bullying like this. I can’t believe our players go through this. That kids go through this.“
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) June 6, 2019

Her Instagram pretty much looked like this before she made it private.

Nicole Curran, the wife of the Warriors owner, had to shut down her comments after her interaction with Beyonce went viral: https://t.co/PwgsLt5IaY pic.twitter.com/p6H34sKboG
— Jordan Heck (@JordanHeckFF) June 6, 2019

Nicole Curran: hey Jay, you want lime in your vodka soda?

Beyhive: pic.twitter.com/GrplY2TpFj
— Ethan rebuilding the Giants the RIGHT way (@EthanGSN) June 6, 2019

People going on about Nicole Curran being a philanthropist who was raised by a single mother and worked in state schools… yes that might be the case but there are RULES OF ETIQUETTE when talking to somebody else’s husband especially when his wife is right next to you!
— Mxstress of the Mind ?? (@Cece_Alexandra) June 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/bennedeto/status/1136698457048174592

It’s truly incredible that something so small could lead to people sending death threats to someone else, but that’s apparently what happened.