Warriors Training Camp: Curry's Future in Question
The Warriors know where the next chase begins. They just don’t yet know when Stephen Curry will officially say he’s in for the long haul.
Golden State confirmed Monday it will open its 2026 training camp at BYU-Hawaii, returning to Oahu for a week that will launch a six-game preseason slate starting Oct. 4 against the Los Angeles Clippers. The dates are locked, the travel is booked, the calendar is clear.
The franchise’s future, though, is still waiting on one signature.
Camp in Paradise, Question in Pen
Curry became eligible on Saturday for a two-year, $136.7 million maximum extension, a deal that would keep him under contract through the 2028-29 season. He’s 38 now and entering the final year of his current agreement, worth $62.6 million.
No one around the Warriors is bracing for a farewell tour. There has been no hint he wants out, no whisper of a looming split. But there is also no ink on the page.
“There’s no question I want to be here the rest of my career, and I’m pretty sure that’s going to happen,” Curry told NBC Sports Bay Area.
So the Warriors will pack for Hawaii with a familiar tension: total confidence in where this partnership is headed, and a quiet impatience about when the commitment becomes official.
From Sept. 29 through Oct. 3, Golden State will work out at BYU-Hawaii before facing the Clippers on Oct. 4 at Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu. It will be the franchise’s second training camp on Oahu in three years and its sixth overall trip to the campus, after previous camps there in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2024.
The Warriors know the island routine. They don’t yet know if they’ll arrive with their superstar’s future formally tied to their own.
A Preseason Road Map, A Contract Cloud
Once the Hawaii trip ends, the rhythm of October comes fast.
Golden State returns to Chase Center to face the Los Angeles Lakers on Oct. 6. The Warriors then fly north to visit Portland on Oct. 7, come back home to host Sacramento on Oct. 10, and square off with the Lakers again on Oct. 13 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The preseason wraps with Portland at Chase Center on Oct. 16.
By then, everyone in the building would prefer the Curry extension to be old news, not a looming storyline.
General manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. has been clear: the organization wants Curry extended before the season tips. Curry, though, is in no rush. His stance is calm, almost casual, even as the clock ticks toward camp.
“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,” he told NBC Sports Bay Area.
The message is steady. The timeline is not.
Familiar Faces, Fragile Health
That familiar roster won’t be fully intact when the team gathers under the Hawaiian sun.
Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody are both rehabbing significant knee injuries and are expected to miss the start of the season, a sobering reality for a group that just lived through the consequences of bad health.
The Warriors kept their core pieces around Curry. Draymond Green, Al Horford, Kristaps Porzingis, Gary Payton II and De’Anthony Melton all return, giving Steve Kerr continuity in the locker room and on the floor. To that, Golden State has added Georges Niang, Brandon Williams and lottery pick Yaxel Lendeborg, hoping fresh legs and a new rookie spark can help erase the sour taste of last year.
That taste lingers. A 37-45 record. A season where injuries shredded rhythm and chemistry. Curry appeared in only 43 games, and every absence tightened the margin for error.
For this franchise, health is no longer a subplot. It is as central to their hopes as any transaction.
Now, at least, the dates are clear.
Training camp opens Sept. 29. The preseason tips off five days later.
The only moment still missing from the Warriors’ calendar is the one that will define everything else: the day Stephen Curry finally picks up the pen.
