Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors agreed to a $102 million one-year contract extension. ‘He is the highest paid player in NBA history within just one year deal’. Full Details
Will Stephen Curry be a Golden State Warriors lifer? It sure seems like it, but you can never be too sure. Curry has recently stressed his desire to win even at his age. That could sway his future decision.
There’s also the fact that Curry is eligible for a massive contract extension. However, the Warriors star is yet to sign that contract. In fact, Joe Lacob revealed that he has not opened discussions with Curry yet, due to his participation in the Olympics.
“We have not discussed it,” Lacob said. “He’s busy right now and he should stay busy and focused on that with the Olympics. But if he wants to talk about that, that’s up to him. He’s not said that at all, but if he wants to, we’ll certainly entertain that discussion.”
That being said, Lacob is hopeful that Curry will be a Warrior for life. It did not turn out that way for Klay Thompson, but he hopes Curry is a different story.
“Let’s put it this way, Steph Curry I fully anticipate he’ll be a Warrior for life,” Lacob said. “I thought Klay was going to be, too, but I was wrong.”
Curry is currently in Paris preparing for the Olympics tournament. This is his first and likely only participation in this event. It makes sense that all his focus is there now.
Little did the Golden State Warriors know that when they signed Stephen Curry to his first extension deal, that they would be able to get so much more out of it than just his long-term commitment to the team. According to NBA writer Mark Medina, looking back at Curry’s first contract extension, it was so team-friendly that in-turn, it opened up the door for the team to be able to sign Kevin Durant back in 2016, and the rest, as they say, is history.
The Warriors have dominated the NBA for almost a decade, being a regular feature in the NBA Finals as the Western Conference representative, largely thanks to their core group of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.
However, what’s largely forgotten is that in each of their first three title-runs between 2015 and 2018 the Finals MVP award was not won by any of their long-standing trio. Instead, that honor belongs to Andre Iguodala (2015) and Kevin Durant (2017, 2018), both of whom were able to be brought on-board by the Warriors due to a team-friendly contract extension signed by Curry years before, back in 2012.
When the Warriors signed Curry to his first contract extension, a four-year, $44 million deal, it was widely believed that he was overpaid considering his injury history, and as a result this move was deemed to be ‘risky’ by the team, per Bleacher Report’s Grant Hughes. However, nobody could predict just how good the deep marksman would be, and in hindsight, this contract in particular could be viewed as the deal that paved the way for the decade of domination that made the Warriors organization the dynasty we have come to know today.