LOS ANGELES \u2013 The Golden State Warriors and Stephen Curry agreed to a two-year, US$116 million (S$148.2 million) extension, ESPN reported on the night of Sept 25.<\/p>\n
The deal, according to the report, includes a player option for the 2028-29 season.<\/p>\n
ESPN also reported that Curry will receive US$20 million less than what he could have maxed out at to give the Warriors more salary-cap space for the next off-season.<\/p>\n
According to the report, Curry and the team had been working on several contract ideas once he became eligible for a two-year, US$136.7 million max deal in August.<\/p>\n
If Curry plays through the 2028-29 campaign, it would be his 20th season, all with the Warriors.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old was limited to 43 games last season, with much of the time missed because of a lingering knee injury. Nonetheless, Curry averaged 26.6 points, 4.4 made three-pointers and 11.3 attempted three-pointers per game \u2013 all above his career averages.<\/p>\n
A 12-time All-Star drafted seventh overall out of Davidson in 2009, Curry has two scoring titles, two Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards and a Finals MVP award to go with four NBA championships.<\/p>\n
However, the Warriors are coming off a 37-45 season, their worst in a non-shortened season since going 36-46 in 2010-11.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Curry said he wanted \u201cno drama\u201d with the contract talks, particularly with camp opening on Sept 29.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe idea of getting back to work is exciting,\u201d Curry said on Sept 23. \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve taken advantage of the off-season. I feel like there\u2019s no hesitation about where I\u2019m at physically going in… But I\u2019m excited about getting back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Curry has career averages of 24.8 points, 4.0 made three-pointers and 9.4 attempted per game. The latter two marks are NBA records, as is his career .912 free-throw percentage.<\/p>\n
He also holds the NBA career marks for threes made (4,248) and attempted (10,073). REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2013 The Golden State Warriors and Stephen Curry agreed to a two-year, US$116 million (S$148.2 million)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-627924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}