{"id":25448,"date":"2025-07-26T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/25448\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T12:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:13:07","slug":"warriors-stephen-curry-believes-nba-players-are-underpaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/25448\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors’ Stephen Curry believes NBA players are ‘underpaid’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curry\u2019s been paid handsomely during his time in Golden State, and he doesn\u2019t overlook it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI know we\u2019re blessed to be in a position where we\u2019re playing basketball for a living, and these are the type of checks that people are earning,\u201d he told Complex.<\/p>\n

However, when he signed his $62.6 million one-year extension<\/a>\u00a0in 2024 that would keep him in a Warriors\u2019 jersey until 2027, many felt that no amount of money the franchise could offer him would represent his worth.<\/p>\n

Curry had an undeniable impact on the Warriors\u2019 valuation increasing by nearly 3,000%. He\u2019s benefited by being the most salaried player on the roster and plenty of endorsement deals. But is he getting his fair share?<\/p>\n

Something similar may happen with reigning NBA Finals MVP and Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a>, who just signed the richest contract in league history with an average annual value of $71.25 million.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Forbes<\/a>, the Thunder\u2019s valuation increased 20% from 2023 to 2024 and will likely take another jump after this year\u2019s championship.<\/p>\n

Curry concedes that player participation in equity isn\u2019t a simple concept and not all markets are created equal: \u201cYou got competitive advantage considerations\u2026and want every market to have a fair chance, like I get all that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He believes, however,\u00a0that finding a solution is a \u201cmutually beneficial proposition\u201d for players, teams and the league. Even the most expensive people in the world need to find other investors to make owning an NBA team possible.<\/p>\n

The best example of Curry\u2019s point is the Boston Celtics sale in March. The most-championed franchise in league history was sold to Bill Chisholm for $6.1 billion<\/a>, the largest ever sports franchise sale in North America at the time. Chisholm needed Rob Hale, Bruce Beal Jr., and private equity firm Sixth Street, to afford the purchase.<\/p>\n

Because team ownership is already a multi-investor operation, the league could potentially come to an agreement with the players by the next CBA negotiation at the end of the decade. If not, the league’s best players will continue to simultaneously earn a ridiculous amount of money, and it will not be nearly enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curry\u2019s been paid handsomely during his time in Golden State, and he doesn\u2019t overlook it.\u00a0 \u201cI know we\u2019re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-25448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}