Letter from 9-year-old girl gets Steph Curry to change how his shoes are sold online

It's the start of basketball season, and all 9-year-old Riley Morrison of Napa, California, wants to wear on the court is a pair of Steph Curry 5 sneakers.

When she went searching for the shoes on the Under Armour website, though, Morrison found that the shoes weren't for sale in the girls section, only the boys. Wanting to see this changed, Morrison wrote a letter to the Golden State Warriors star. "I know you support girl athletes because you have two daughters and you host an all girls basketball camp," she wrote. "I hope you can work with Under Armour to change this because girls want to rock the Curry 5s, too."

Curry responded, telling Morrison that he spent two days working with Under Armour to fix this error. "Unfortunately, we have labeled smaller sizes as 'boys' on the website," he said. "We are correcting this now!" He also told Morrison she'll be receiving a pair of Curry 5 shoes and the new Curry 6 sneakers not due to be released until Christmas Day, plus he wants her to join him in Oakland for "something special in the works for International Women's Day on March 8th." By Thursday afternoon, Under Armour had rectified the situation, adding a girls section for Curry shoes. "Thanks to Riley and Stephen, we're correcting a simple yet critical error," Under Armour spokesperson Dean Stoyer told CBS News.

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