Stephen Curry's Future with the Warriors: No Rush on Extension

Stephen Curry can sign another massive deal with the Golden State Warriors. He just has no intention of letting it run his summer.

Two days after becoming eligible for a two-year, $136.7 million maximum extension, Curry doubled down on the only part of his future he treats as non-negotiable: the jersey.

“There’s no question I want to be here the rest of my career, and I’m pretty sure that’s going to happen,” he told NBC Sports Bay Area at the Workday Charity Classic in Palo Alto.

The rest? That can wait.

“The deal and the contract stuff will happen at the right time, and we’re not letting it be a distraction from our preparation for the season, and the fact that the team we’re coming back with has a lot of familiarity,” Curry said.

For the Warriors, it’s reassurance without a resolution. The franchise icon wants to stay. The franchise wants him to stay. The paperwork, though, is on Steph’s clock.

No rush when you’re Steph Curry

Curry is heading into the final season of his current contract, worth nearly $63 million. Under the NBA’s over-38 rule, Golden State can tack on only two more years, which sets the extension ceiling at roughly $136.7 million.

He can sign it now. He can sign it later. He holds all the leverage.

The only real variable is timing, and that timing gives Curry something he hasn’t always had in his career: a chance to see exactly what he’s signing up for before he commits again.

Golden State has leaned into continuity. The Warriors kept Draymond Green, Al Horford, Kristaps Porzingis, Gary Payton II and De’Anthony Melton. They brought in rookie Yaxel Lendeborg, Brandon Williams and Georges Niang. Quinten Post and Pat Spencer moved on.

On paper, that’s familiarity. In reality, it’s not quite stability.

Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody are expected to miss the start of the season while they work back from knee injuries, thinning an already vulnerable wing rotation and pushing Lendeborg toward meaningful minutes before he’s had time to breathe.

This is the group Curry will see when training camp opens. It might not be the one he sees when the playoffs begin.

Last year’s 37-45 stumble still hangs over the franchise. Injuries shredded the rotation, and Curry himself played only 43 games, his season derailed by a knee issue that kept him out for more than two months.

“Hopefully we can be healthy and just have a chance to show what we’re capable of, myself included, missing so many games last year,” he said.

That’s not a throwaway line. At 36, entering Year 18, Curry knows every season now is a finite resource.

Trade ammo and a ticking window

One more layer sits underneath the extension conversation: what the Warriors can still do around him.

Golden State controls six future first-round picks between 2027 and 2033. The Stepien Rule and a protected 2030 obligation to Memphis limit how many they can ship out outright, but they still have the ingredients for a serious offer.

In practical terms, the Warriors can build an aggressive trade package with up to three first-rounders and future pick swaps if the right star shakes free. That keeps general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. in the game for any midseason opportunity that smells like a last, real title push.

It also frames Curry’s patience in a different light.

Waiting on the extension doesn’t have to mean he’s wavering on Golden State. It can just as easily mean he wants to see how Butler and Moody look when they return, how the new rotation settles, and whether the front office is willing to cash in what’s left of its draft capital for another championship swing.

Curry has already made one thing clear. The ending, in his mind, belongs in the Bay.

He wants to finish where he started. The real drama now is whether the Warriors can build one more contender around him before the picks run out, the options dry up, and even a player of his magnitude finally runs out of time.