Stephen Curry Gets Real About Future Retirement
At 37 years old, Stephen Curry is still one of the most elite players in the NBA. As he prepares for his 17th season with the Golden State Warriors, he remains a global icon, and his influence in the sport is undeniable. With all his basketball brilliance, he knows one day he’ll retire. But that day is not in the near future, according to the “Chef Curry.”
During a conversation on “360 With Speedy”, Curry shed some light on how he views the twilight of his legendary career.
"I'm kind of just taking it in two-year chunks. I just want to be in a position where I've put myself in a position where I can say I've done everything I can," Curry said. "I'm not nowhere close to that."
The four-time champion also spoke about the part of the process that is most challenging at this stage of his career.
“Mostly the offseason for me is harder than the season because once you get into the 82 games, it's repetition," he said. "You know what you need to do — practice, off days, you love playing, and the games are the most fun... the games are so much fun. Like you get lost in the game. Like that's the easy part."
Curry also spoke about his loyalty to Drake during the height of his feud with Kendrick Lamar. During warmups at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Curry shared his displeasure with hearing Lamar’s scathing diss track “Not Like Us” again.
"Damn with this song," Curry said in the video as LeBron James and others jammed out to it. "It’s not the only song in America."
"It was both," Curry admitted. "Everywhere we went, that's all I heard. And the fact that they knew who I was with. You can't do anything about what the DJ's playing. But I got sick of it at a certain point.
"It was funny that the cameras caught me because that was from the soul,” he added.
"We go way back, though, and it's actually kind of a family thing too. One of Ayesha's cousins is from Toronto and the whole deal. So, we're all in the same boat," Curry said about his ties to Drake.
Last season, Curry averaged 24.7 points, 6.4 assists, 4.7 rebounds, and 1.5 steals. He led the Warriors to a first-round upset of the No. 2 seed Houston Rockets in a hard-fought seven-game series. In the second round against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Curry suffered a grade-one hamstring injury in the second. The Warriors were eventually eliminated in 5 games.