Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy isn’t wavering on Stephen Curry’s future in Golden State. According to ESPN’s Anthony Slater, Dunleavy is confident Curry will stay with the franchise through the rest of his career.
That belief matters now because Curry can become a free agent next summer if he doesn’t agree to an extension. He’s on a $62.5MM deal for the coming season and becomes eligible to extend on Aug.
- Golden State can offer him as much as two years and $136.7MM.
“There’s two things I’m confident about with Steph,” Dunleavy said. “He really, really wants to win and he wants to finish his career as a Warrior.
I don’t think that changes tomorrow, August 29th, start of the season, middle of the season, end of next season. Those things are going to be consistent.”
Curry, now 38, has been tied to the Warriors since they took him with the No. 7 pick in 2009. He has already made it known he wants to keep going for at least two more seasons, and Slater reports there’s optimism on both sides that the partnership will continue well beyond this year.
Still, Dunleavy left open the possibility that Curry could one day ask out, saying the organization would listen if that happened.
“Ultimately it’s his call, his decision, whether that’s allowing his contract to run out and move on,” Dunleavy said. “Look, if he comes to me and wants to be moved, [controlling owner] Joe [Lacob] and I will talk it through.
We wouldn’t love it. But he’s earned the right to do what he wants.
But as far as the messaging or any idea that he’d be anywhere else, that’s not a thing we’re looking at or he’s looking at.”
One offseason goal for Curry has already been met: Steve Kerr is still the coach. Curry also has a chance to come back from a difficult 2025/26 season, when a right knee injury limited him to 43 games.
“My hope would be he plays more than the 43 games he played last year,” Dunleavy said. “We’d expect that.
It’s on the radar. It’s something we have to be mindful of.
It’s delicate. It’s delicate for him and delicate for the rest of the guys on our team.”
Golden State’s roster doesn’t look drastically different from the one that finished last season. After missing out on the LeBron James sweepstakes, the Warriors brought back Draymond Green, Kristaps Porzingis, Al Horford, De’Anthony Melton and Gary Payton II on short-term deals. Porzingis, Horford and Melton all missed significant time last season because of injuries.
Dunleavy said the team had to weigh two competing factors when building the roster.
“Constructing [the roster], we had to make a decision between talent and availability,” Dunleavy said. “There was no perfect solution in terms of the combination of the two. We leaned a little bit more toward talent… We are taking on some risk there, but I think we value the talent over maybe finding guys that were perfectly healthy.”
For now, the plan is to get into the playoffs and keep enough flexibility to add during the season if the right opportunity comes along.
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