As he gets ready for his 15th NBA season, Stephen Curry, 35, feels that he is still in his peak, despite what some may think.
The Golden State Warriors player stated, “I still feel like I—I’m in the prime of my career, in a sense of what I’m able to accomplish,” in a PBS News Hour interview with Geoff Bennett.
Although it’s true that Curry is getting older, he hasn’t exhibited any symptoms of slowing down in recent years.
Curry is coming off a strong 2022–2023 campaign in which he shot 42.7 percent from beyond the arc and 49.3 percent from the floor to average 29.4 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 6.3 assists in 56 games.
Although the two-time MVP assisted the ineffective Warriors team in securing a postseason spot for the ninth time in the previous eleven seasons, Golden State was defeated by the Lakers in the Western Conference playoffs.
One NBA executive recently told ESPN’s Tim Bontemps that he doesn’t think players like Curry and LeBron James can will their teams to NBA titles by themselves anymore, given the Warriors’ apparent slowing down as a team.
“I believe that things follow cycles,” the executive declared. “LeBron is older, which means that the player who has driven it for the previous 15 years is no longer in a position to will himself to championships on his own. Steph is the same.”
Nevertheless, the Warriors have been a serious contender for a championship for over ten years with Curry in the lineup, and the veteran has assisted the team in winning four NBA titles since 2015.
With Chris Paul joining Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, and Andrew Wiggins in the starting lineup, the franchise’s success should only increase in 2023–2024 and beyond.