The Golden State Warriors have the coaching situation settled after Steve Kerr signed his two-year extension last week. Now, the most important question hanging over the entire franchise is regarding Stephen Curry’s future.
The Warriors’ general manager addressed it directly on Friday, and while the formal conversation has not started yet, the direction he is pointing in is interesting.
Is Stephen Curry Staying With the Warriors?
“We want Steph to finish his career here,” Dunleavy told reporters, per Nick Friedell. He sounds confident the two sides will be able to work something out, though formal contract discussions have not yet begun.
Dunleavy on Steph contract extension discussions: “We want Steph to finish his career here.”
He sounds confident they’ll be able to work something out — but it doesn’t sound like formal conversations have started yet.— Nick Friedell (@NickFriedell) May 15, 2026
The financial possibility for an extension already exists. Curry is eligible to sign a two-year, $136.7 million extension starting on August 29, which would give him a career-high annual salary of $65.7 million in 2027-28 and $71 million in 2028-29 under the over-38 rule.
He is currently owed $62.58 million in the final year of his existing deal for 2026-27, meaning an extension would keep him in Golden State through the 2028-29 season at the age of 41.
It is a significant financial commitment for a franchise that is projected to be under the luxury tax for the first time since the 2019-20 season, but Dunleavy’s comment makes clear that the money is not the issue.
The Curry situation is also inseparable from everything else Golden State is trying to figure out this summer. Draymond Green holds a $27.7 million player option and has until June 29 to decide whether he wants to take it.
Jimmy Butler III is coming off an ACL injury and is expected to miss the first portion of next season. Kerr specifically told the front office during his contract negotiations that he wanted to guide the Curry era out in a dignified way, and all three sides, Kerr, Curry, and Dunleavy, have been aligned throughout this entire process.
Curry separately told reporters this week that his career goal requires at least three more seasons, which aligns perfectly with the extension timeline Dunleavy outlined. He also made a golf joke about his nagging knee injury, a reminder that the 38-year-old has not entirely lost his sense of humor through what has been a difficult few weeks since the Play-In loss to Phoenix.
The formal extension talks will come later this summer. But for anyone wondering whether the greatest player in Warriors history is going anywhere, Dunleavy answered that question on Friday as clearly as he could without a signed contract in hand.
