Do we like Stephen Curry?
Our score: 8 out of 10. Decent record with real good done and nothing harmful found, though the record on some issues like climate is thin.
Curry is 38 and still the face of the Warriors, which tells you something about staying power. The latest news is the contract: the AP-sourced reports say he took a discount on the maximum he could have signed for, running through the 2028-29 season. Our searches turned up plenty of basketball and very little scandal.
The nearest thing to a scandal is Curry in 2017, when he was asked about Under Armour boss Kevin Plank calling Trump an asset. Curry said he agreed if you removed the letters “et” from the word, a cheeky dig that cost him the White House invite for the Warriors. It was also with a big shoe deal on the line, which is the cost-to-self part we like to see.
On the harm test, he comes up clean. When North Carolina's HB2 law restricted LGBTQ protections in 2016, he told reporters “I'm all for equal and fair rights and treatment for everybody” and said he wanted the law changed. He was a bit soft on the boycott side of it, saying he had mixed feelings about events being pulled from his home state, so it's not a firebrand's answer, but it sits on the right side.
Back in January 2026, after the Pretti shooting in Minneapolis and a postponed Warriors game there, Curry said “Yesterday was rough” and hoped “the community comes together, and the right decisions are made.” That's a measured, human thing to say rather than a dodge. We found nothing on climate from him, and nothing from him on trans athletes, so that part of the record is thin.
The good stuff is real. In July 2026 he received the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award for the Eat. Learn. Play. foundation he runs with his wife in Oakland, which focuses on early childhood literacy and school support. He said the aim is “to serve the whole child and the whole school experience.” Fines for flinging his mouthguard in the 2010s are the worst of his on-court sins, and he apologised for one.