Stephen Curry is under contract through the 2025/26 season and he hasn’t considered finishing his career with anyone other than the Warriors. In an interview during this afternoon’s Oakland A’s baseball game (video link), Curry talked about his love for the Bay Area and his plans for the future.
“I’ve been out here … I just finished my 13th year,” Curry said, “and to be able to say I’ve played for one team my entire career, and also to say between the 10 years in Oakland and these last three years in San Francisco, I can honestly say how special this place is. Also, there’s a huge need here that we can really kind of tackle some of those challenges, and do it in a meaningful way. Honestly, I don’t want to leave ever. I want this to be my one and only home, and even thinking about what happens after basketball is done.”
With four championship rings and two MVP trophies, Curry is among the most popular and successful athletes in the history of the Bay Area. He’ll be 38 when his current deal expires and hasn’t given any indication about whether he plans to continue playing after that.
There’s more from the Pacific Division:
- In a tour of the Inuit Dome construction site, Clippers owner Steve Ballmer tells Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN that he wants to have the premier team in Los Angeles (Twitter link). “You said this is a Laker town. No, Laker-Clipper,” Ballmer said to Youngmisuk. “And someday I want to be able to say Clipper-Laker.” Of the new arena, Ballmer said, “I think it’s another statement that says, ‘Hey look, we’re nobody’s little brother. We’re a real team.’”
- Clippers forward Paul George will be the latest NBA star to make an appearance at the Drew League, tweets Law Murray of The Athletic. The pro-am league in Los Angeles has attracted numerous NBA players this summer, including LeBron James, DeMar DeRozan, Trae Young and John Collins. This will be George’s first Drew League appearance since 2014.
- James Ham of Kings Beat offers four suggestions on how the Kings can improve their defense for the upcoming season.
Of course they will have to overpay to keep Curry on the court, his value to the organization is greater than that. Keeping Steph, Klay, and Draymond is important. It sets a standard for the organization. They are key to finding and developing players.
Thank goodness the Timberpuppies passed on this dude and went with Jonny Flynn & Ricky Rubio. What great team management !!
Excluding my own teams/players, Steph Curry is easily my favorite athlete across all sports. Lots of players show respect OR charisma, Curry is one of the few that shows both.
The NBA will be a different league when he is no longer in it.
Does he “show respect” when he performs that ridiculous shimmy after he hits a shot??? I love how that DISRESPECTFUL and self-serving reaction is either celebrated or conveniently ignored as the disgraceful act that it is by the sycophants at ESPN and fans like you. While the number of athletes who understand and value sportsmanship is at an all-time low, please don’t tell us athletes like Steph Curry “show respect.” Actions speak louder than words.
TROLL.
Wow, what insight. Now I can see I was wrong all along with your thorough analysis.
You obviously are just here to irate people. So, that makes you a troll. I don’t understand why you like to do that.
**irritate and annoy people**
Your conclusion is invalid. Do you tell everyone who disagrees with you that you think they only said that to irritate and annoy them? Do you call all the people you disagree with names? I’d have more respect for you if you explained why you disagree with me without name-calling. You’ve given me no reason to consider your viewpoint, whatever it is. It’s hard to discern exactly what you mean since all you’ve done is substitute name-calling for argument.
Your alias is getoffmylawn. That sounds rather defensive for virtual space. Curry doesn’t practice his shimmy. The idea that you think it is rehearsed is ridiculous. All players have their little gestures when they are playing well. I guess you also get irate over trash talking. The players accept it as part of the game. No player has ever complained about Curry’s shimmy. The has been playing for over a decade, and you are the first person I have ever seen complaining about it. If you don’t like being called a troll, don’t act like one.
I can care less about being called a troll, especially by someone who doesn’t understand what a troll is. I’ve made no negative comments regarding Curry’s game or him personally other than his unsportsmanlike behavior when he shimmies. I don’t care if I’m the first or only one who disagrees with his behavior, including other players, who are understandably disinclined to be negative toward a player like Curry who has millions of sycophants like you who will excuse his every behavior. Regarding my username, it’s an example of me being able to take a joke about my admittedly old-school views, hardly “defensive” in nature at all. Your repeated attempts to bully someone who disagrees with you have failed.
Oh gawd. You did criticize his game. His shimmy shows he is very focused. Lots of players have quirky mannerisms to stay focused. He doesn’t rehearse his shimmy. He was doing the shimmy when it was questionable as to whether or not that had a future as player. I don’t know where you get this idea that he practices his shimmy. Curry gets criticized by other players all the time. And none of talk about his shimmy. You are the only one offended by it. It is really sad.
So doing the shimmy AFTER he makes a shot helps him to focus as he’s MAKING the shot???? That makes no sense. I question your reading comprehension, again…I criticized his BEHAVIOR, NOT his game. “Oh gawd”????? You seem very upset that Curry is being criticized. The unrequited love you have for Curry is what’s REALLY sad.
Lol, tell us, gramps- who does the shimmy disrespect?
His opponents. It’s not difficult to understand.
I’d say you’re disrespecting your entire organization if you let Curry hit a shot. Your logic isn’t just off, it doesn’t exist.
Say what???? If you “let” Curry hit a shot you’re disrespecting your own organization???? Let me help you, since you don’t seem to understand…the offense puts up shots, some go in, some don’t, you get points for making shots and whoever has more points at the end of the game wins. When Team A makes a shot then they have succeeded, often despite the efforts of Team B, there is (usually) no disrespect on anyone’s part when this happens. The logic which you’re having difficulty understanding, apparently, is that Curry’s shimmying is an unnecessary attempt to show up his opponent after succeeding. Glad I could help clear things up for you.
His shimmy is disrespectful!?
Hahahahaha, ok boomer
Yes it is. And I’m ok with being a Boomer with my priorities straight.
Making an impossible shot under the hardest conditions imaginable, a shot you yourself will never ever make in a million years, and he’s not allowed to celebrate? It’s not disrespectful to the opponent to shimmy by yourself on the court. If he did it to the bench and shimmied ON players, you might have a point. But Steph is class, you wouldn’t know what that looks like. You are a clown, everyone report this chud.
There have been PLENTY of players who make difficult shots, shots that I, myself, “will never make in a million years,” without a rehearsed celebration like Curry’s shimmy. Jumping up with your arms raised or punching the air in momentary exuberance are examples of visceral reactions, which are understandable. The shimmy, and other rehearsed reactions are attempts to call attention to oneself and to disrespect your opponent. You might know that if you were guarding Curry when it happened, something that also will never happen in a million years.
Jumping up in the air and celebrating a shot only makes you look like a fool. Curry only shimmys when he is in a can’t miss mode.
Jumping up or throwing your fist in the air is a momentary, unrehearsed, visceral reaction to a moment. Most people understand that feeling and know it’s just an honest reaction to a moment. I don’t know how you find that foolish behavior and shimmying is justified. It seems like you’re really contorting your argument to justify how feel. That’s not argumentation, that’s nonsense.
Curry doesn’t rehearse his shimmy. It is nutzo to think that. Jumping in the air after every made shot is idiotic. A coach would probably bench a player for doing that. Your head is not in the game.
Obviously you didn’t score very well in reading comprehension on standardized tests in school. I NEVER said I understood someone “jumping in the air after every shot made.” And it’s not “nutzo” (you’re impressing the Hell out of me with your reasoning and your vocabulary) to suggest that his shimmy is rehearsed, or at least, contrived. My head has been “in the game” this whole time and I’m waiting for you to join me.
When he starts shimmying after MISSED shots, come on here and rant about him.
Why would he celebrate after MISSING a shot.? The objective is to put the ball in the basket. Maybe you don’t understand that.
To celebrate an opposing player’s missed shot – the defensive objective is to prevent the ball from going in the basket. Maybe you don’t understand that.
If you’re playing defense and your opponent misses, shouldn’t you be looking to rebound the ball, getting set to play defense again (if the offense gets the missed shot), or getting your offense going (if the defense gets the rebound)??? Why would you choose a moment like that to shimmy??? Maybe YOU don’t understand THAT.
can you name a player that is successful that doesn’t do that? Please if you go back more than 20 years you proved you are full of it.
Your statement would only be correct if sportsmanship were time- and situation-dependent. It’s not.
Jumping in the air is time and situation dependent. So, according to you, it is unsportsmanlike.
Your reasoning, for lack of a better word, defies logic. Showing natural exuberance may be time- and situation-dependent but that doesn’t make it unsportsmanlike. Sportsmanship, on the other hand, is a constant value, independent of time or situation. Just because the exuberance and sportsmanship do not share those qualities does NOT make them mutually exclusive. Next time, try providing actual reasoning. I don’t mind saying I’m wrong if you can show me why.