The Golden State Warriors don’t expect franchise legend Stephen Curry to request a trade, according to Anthony Slater of ESPN.
Curry will make $62.6 million next season in the final year of his contract. The future Hall of Famer is eligible for a two-year, $136.7 million extension.
“He hasn’t [said any different],” Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. said. “That’s always been the message. That’s always been what he’s discussed. I think that’s tracking quite well. … Ultimately it’s his call, his decision, whether that’s allowing his contract to run out and move on. Look, if he comes to me and wants to be moved, [controlling owner] Joe [Lacob] and I will talk it through. We wouldn’t love it. But he’s earned the right to do what he wants. But as far as the messaging or any idea that he’d be anywhere else, that’s not a thing we’re looking at or he’s looking at.”
The Warriors missed the playoffs last season. They haven’t advanced past the second round of the playoffs since 2022.
To make matters worse, Golden State didn’t get LeBron James or Giannis Antetokounmpo this summer. James signed with the Philadelphia 76ers despite Curry and Draymond Green heavily recruiting him to Golden State, while the Milwaukee Bucks traded Antetokounmpo to the Miami Heat.
“That’s why you don’t envision anything until it happens,” Curry said at Moses Moody’s youth camp about the Warriors not getting James, via The Athletic. “There’s a lot of moving parts.”
The Warriors haven’t added any new players via free agency or trade this summer. They re-signed Green and signed Kristaps Porziņģis to a two-year extension.
Jimmy Butler is expected to miss most of next season recovering from his ACL tear, so the Warriors won’t be a championship contender.
Curry appeared in 43 games last season. He averaged 26.6 points and 4.7 assists per game while shooting 46.8% from the field, 39.3% from beyond the arc and 92.3% from the free-throw line.
A four-time NBA champion, Curry is expected to retire with the Warriors. The two-time MVP and one-time Finals MVP enters next season with career averages of 24.8 points and 6.3 assists per game in the regular season and 26.8 points and 6.1 assists per game in the playoffs.
Curry turns 39 on March 14, 2027. He’s been in the NBA since 2009. The 12-time All-Star and two-time scoring champion has made the most 3-pointers in NBA history.
“There’s two things I’m confident about with Steph,” Dunleavy Jr. said. “He really, really wants to win and he wants to finish his career as a Warrior. I don’t think that changes tomorrow, August 29th, start of the season, middle of the season, end of next season. Those things are going to be consistent.”
