Stephen Curry will signal a one-year, $62.6 million contract extension with the Golden State Warriors on Thursday, his agent, Jeff Austin, instructed ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The deal will preserve him beneath contract via the 2026-27 season, throughout which Curry will flip 39 years previous.
Curry, 36, signed a four-year, $215 million contract with the Warriors in 2022. He’s now set to earn $178 million assured over the subsequent three seasons. He’s projected to be the primary participant to earn greater than $60 million in a single season in 2026-27.
After being underpaid for the primary few seasons of Golden State’s dynastic run, Curry has been the NBA’s highest-paid participant because the 2017-18 season. The four-time NBA champion now tasks to carry that title for 10 consecutive seasons.
The extension will improve Curry’s profession earnings to $532.7 million in 2026-27, which can put him in an especially unique membership, per Spotrac. LeBron James would be the first participant to go the $500 million mark this coming season, and Kevin Durant might be lower than $200,000 quick in 2025-26, so if he performs one other season, he’ll be part of the membership when Curry does. Paul George’s present deal will get him there in 2027-28.
Curry’s contract will now expire similtaneously Draymond Inexperienced’s, assuming Inexperienced picks up his $27.7 million participant choice for the 2026-27 season. The Warriors presently haven’t any contracts on their books past that yr, save for Buddy Hield’s $10.1 million 2027-28 participant choice, of which solely $3.1 million is assured. Golden State coach Steve Kerr, nevertheless, is simply beneath contract via the 2025-26 season.
This information follows Curry’s spectacular efficiency in Crew USA’s two ultimate video games of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Alongside James and Durant, Curry scored a complete of 60 factors and shot 17 for 26 from 3-point vary in wins over Serbia and France, main america to a gold medal in his first Olympic look.
Final season with the Warriors, Curry averaged 26.4 factors, 4.5 rebounds and 6.1 assists in 74 video games and made his tenth All-NBA workforce. Curry, who has spent his whole 15-year profession with the workforce that drafted him No. 7 total in 2009, is clearly nonetheless a top-tier participant, however it stays to be seen whether or not or not Golden State can put him ready to compete for a fifth title. This offseason, the workforce misplaced Klay Thompson, Curry’s backcourt associate since 2011, and Chris Paul, however may need improved the roster total by including De’Anthony Melton, Kyle Anderson and Hield. The entrance workplace’s pursuit of a star, nevertheless, was unsuccessful, as potential trades for Paul George and Lauri Markkanen did not get previous the end line.
Golden State may not be carried out doing enterprise. Ahead Jonathan Kuminga and wing Moses Moody, the Warriors’ lottery picks within the 2021 draft, are each eligible for extensions on their rookie contracts till Oct. 21, the day earlier than the 2024-25 common season suggestions off.
