Steph Curry signed a monumental one-year contract extension with Golden State price $62.6 million to remain in The Bay via the 2026-27 NBA season, however his expectations stay unchanged.
This large contract makes Curry the primary American team-sport professional athlete to earn over $60M in a single season.
However for him, it’s enterprise as common.
“It’s nonetheless about profitable and taking the steps mandatory to offer ourselves an opportunity,” Curry instructed The Athletic. “The usual hasn’t modified. The expectation hasn’t modified.”
The Warriors didn’t make the playoffs final 12 months and regardless of dropping Klay Thompson, have added sharpshooter Buddy Hield, free agent guard De’Anthony Melton and veteran ahead Kyle Anderson.
The extension definitely quiets the rumors of Steph teaming up with LeBron James on the Lakers or leaving the workforce to affix a extra profitable one in his twilight years.
“It’s not totally different from my perspective,” Curry instructed The Athletic. “You might have an appreciation for the place and the chance and the help from individuals who’ve been with you on the journey. I’ve all the time stated I wished to play for one workforce my complete profession. So it’s good to get (the extension) query out of the best way and provides full focus to basketball and to the season.”
Steph will probably be 39 on the finish of his new contract – the identical age as LeBron is now.
So, he may nonetheless have loads of gasoline left within the tank by then.
Golden State now have the tall process of offering Curry with a championship-contending workforce – which they don’t look to be as of this second.
The Warriors entrance workplace tried to commerce for Paul George and Lauri Markkanen over the summer season – two gamers of a caliber that Steph is deserving of taking part in alongside.
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