« I’ve always stated that I want to be a lifer with Golden State », Stephen Curry told CNBC. He added: « What we’ve built there, the fact that I get to run it back with Draymond and Coach Kerr. […] My interest and mission is to stay and be competitive. » His contract runs to next summer, and he won’t test the market before then.
In the same interview he confirmed that he tried to recruit LeBron James, then a free agent, for the Warriors during the off-season. LeBron James signed with the Philadelphia 76ers.
A free player, in my folder, doesn’t exist. Either he’s on the sheet or he isn’t. At our club, when someone changes teams there’s a form, two signatures and a date I know by heart. Over there it gets announced in a television interview, and the interview has no column. I note the date anyway.
About 62 million dollars are left on that contract, for an 18th NBA season. Curry is 38. He was drafted seventh in 2009 out of Davidson, he is a four-time NBA champion, a two-time MVP, an Olympic champion in 2024, and the first player to pass 4,000 career three-pointers. Last season, 26.6 points a game.
The calendar is already written: six pre-season games in early October, then the regular season opening on 21 October away at the Los Angeles Lakers.
Six pre-season games, then 21 October in Los Angeles. At our club, pre-season is a Saturday tournament, a mug of coffee before half-time and a sheet nobody counts. Over there, six sheets that don’t count, and nobody files them. The first one that counts has a date on it. It’s on the sheet. Clock stopped, ball at the table.
It’s true, we checked: Eurohoops.
