Stephen Curry, who is 37 years old on Friday, is 39 years old when his contract with the Golden State Warriors is expected to expire. Provided that he still plays a high level at that time, Curry would like to play beyond, he said during One interview on 95.7 on Wednesday.
Asked how long he could continue to play, Curry said: “I don’t know. I have already tried to answer this question, and I said a lot of different things depending on what I feel that day, but I think everything is measured on the style of” can I reach this level that I expect from me? “It is not really attached to points per game or to statistics. And then you are reassessing each year.
Stephen Curry of the Warriors exceeds 25,000 points, and this is how much he could climb on the list of all time of the NBA
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Last summer, Curry has signed a one -year contract extension and $ 62.6 millionSo its agreement takes place throughout the 2026-27 season. Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler are also signed until 2026-27, and the coach of the Warriors Steve Kerr was signed until 2025-2026.
Back in 2015Curry told me that he hoped to play “until I was like 38 or something.” In 2020He told journalists that he wanted to play until the age of 40, even if his wife, Ayesha, gives him “a little look” whenever he says. It is still on average 32 minutes per game and produced at an All-NBA level, but it declared the game on 95.7 that, in the right circumstances, it could possibly pass to a bench role.
“Maybe. Yes, maybe. I think everything is on the table,” he said. “To the question of definition, like:” How long should I play, what will I take for me to do this? “I will answer these questions, but I am open to anything. earn. Nobody wants to be fair, just existing. If that means I can win, I would approach it in any way. “”
For Curry, it is “a question of clarity” about what he is able to do on the ground. He cannot know for the moment how he will move in 2027, but in 2025, there is still no more dangerous than him who flows on screens.
“No one wants to be naive to think:” Oh, I’m still this type “and you are not, and you have a system built around you and you have expectations built around this type of team,” said Curry. “Until this point, we are not there. What it looks like on the road, I will understand that. But I love the game, and I think that I present myself and that I still have as much as I do it every night, I feel exactly like a child when I am there. But I can’t go there any longer – things before sale.”
Curry, who has become the leader of all time of the NBA in 3 points manufactured in 2021is about to become the first player to make 4,000 3 in his career. Upon entering the Golden State match against the Kings of Sacramento on Thursday, he made 3,998 careers 3S.
“I am desensitized to the 3 because they just come from flooding, game after the match”, Kerr told journalists on Monday. “Four thousand are just a crazy number, but it seems just a little natural.”
This season, Curry has made an average of five 3s per game, and he made a total of 357 last season. If he plays beyond his current contract, 5,000 are in the area of ​​the possibility.
