Stephen Curry has spent nearly two decades in one place, and he doesn’t sound interested in changing that now.
In an interview with CNBC’s Alex Sherman, the Warriors star made it clear that the league’s revolving door of superstar movement has never been his style, even as Golden State has shifted into a rebuild and his own career has entered its later stages.
“I think in the history of the league, I don’t know how many teams have had been championship favorites for almost two decades,” Curry said. “… Going into my 18th year,”
Sherman pointed to the way stars often leave in search of a quicker path to contention, but Curry brushed that off.
“I’m not that type of player,” Curry said. “So the idea of being able to again reimagine what success looks like and what it takes to for this particular team to do it, I like those challenges. Doesn’t mean that we’re always not trying to find ways to get better, and the way that the league changes kind of have to be prepared for any and everything.
“But for me, I just want to be healthy,” Curry said. “I missed almost what 30-some games last year, and singular focus on just playing good basketball once we get started.”
Health was a real issue for him last season. Curry appeared in just 43 games for the Warriors in 2025-26 because of runner’s knee, and Jimmy Butler’s ACL tear in January only made the year tougher. Golden State finished 10th in the Western Conference at 37-45, then beat the Los Angeles Clippers in its first play-in game before losing to the Phoenix Suns in the next one and missing the playoffs.
The Warriors did not make any notable additions this summer, so the path back to contention still looks bumpy. Even so, Curry is framing this season less as a chase for an immediate title and more as a reset of what this version of the team can become.
“We talked about it last year,” Curry said. “The success that we’ve had, we’re always going to be compared to championship level as we should.
It’s the way that we work. It’s the way that we put everything together with how we run business with the Warriors.
But I think building a new foundation of what this particular team needs to do to be successful, obviously staying healthy.
“We have a veteran team coming back with some young guys that are ready to take the step in the right direction to be impact players,” Curry continued. “Of course, we want to be in championship contention, but it’s kind of a fun opportunity for us to rebuild everything from scratch with the identity of what Warriors basketball is, but try to reimagine it.
“And so, for us, cool, we have to have an idea of what June looks like, but for us to just get off to a good start and understand what this team needs to be successful,” Curry added. “A long-winded way of saying, of course, I want to win a championship, but I just want to play good basketball because we haven’t in a while.”
Curry has already won four NBA championships and remains focused on chasing a fifth, but the immediate priority is getting back on the floor and staying there. He is now 38, a 12-time All-Star, and still producing at a high level, averaging 26.6 points, 3.6 rebounds, 4.7 assists, 1.1 steals, and 0.4 blocks per game in 2025-26. The Warriors will need more help around him this season if they want that production to matter the way it used to.
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