In the summer of 2021, Curry and the Warriors renewed their contracts early, signing a four-year, $210 million super-salary contract, and Curry's annual salary will exceed $50 million from the beginning of the 2023-2024 season. By the 2025-2026 season, the 37-year-old Curry will be paid $59.61 million a year, nearly $60 million, and he certainly won't be able to play $600 million at that time, and the Warriors know that, but they are willing to give back to Curry because he deserves it.
Since entering the NBA in 2009, Curry has been playing for the Warriors, leading the rise of the Warriors, helping the team win 3 championships, he also won 2 regular season MVPs, 4 times selected for the best team first team, 2 times selected for the best team second team, 1 time selected for the best team third team, 2 times elected as the scoring king, 1 steal king, 8 times selected as an All-Star, Curry's presence has made the Warriors have always remained competitive, so that the Warriors have received super high attention, the team's market value has doubled, and the bosses and shareholders have made a lot of money. So they are also willing to pay Curry such a high salary.
Regardless of whether Curry can continue to lead the Warriors to the championship, as a hero of the team, and the benefits of his existence, the Warriors will certainly not trade him, he is now a non-sale for the Warriors, but before he rose, the Warriors put him on the shelf three times, and bogut was rejected only once.
The first time was in 2009, when Curry was still a rookie, but then-Suns general manager Steve Kerr saw Curry's potential and he tried everything he could to get Curry, who offered protected first-round picks, and Amare Stoudemire, who was already a four-time All-Star interiorist at the time, hoping to get Curry and other players from the Warriors.
The Warriors, eager for an All-Star interior, almost made the deal, but Singh suffered a serious injury in 2005-2006, when he played just three games and missed 29 games due to injury in 2008-2009.
The second time was in 2011, when the Warriors wanted to keep Ellis, an outside player, to trade Curry as a major chip for a brilliant interior, and the Bucks' Andrew Bogut was one of their goals. At that time, the Warriors were willing to send Curry + Ecpe Uto to the Milwaukee Bucks to trade Andrew Bogut, but Curry only played 26 games that season because of an ankle injury, and the Bucks' medical team worried that Curry's ankle injury would affect his future development, and the Bucks eventually rejected the deal.
Later Curry rose, the Bucks regrets, the top management angrily fired the medical group that was not optimistic about Curry at the time, in fact, the judgment of the Bucks medical team was reasonable, Curry suffered a small injury in the first three years of his career, he was a glass man, in 2011 he suffered a serious injury, and it is possible that future injuries will occur repeatedly, but they do not know that the player will change, Curry changed the shooting force point after the big injury, did not transfer all the pressure to the ankle, and then his ankle was never injured again.
The third time was still in 2011, after learning that Chris Paul wanted to leave the Hornets, the Warriors decided to pack Curry, Klay Thompson, and Pai Youdu to the Hornets, and get the point guard Chris Paul, who had been selected for the Best Team, the Best Defensive Team and the All-Star at that time, and the Hornets were also moved, but Paul did not promise to renew the contract with the Warriors after the contract ended, the Warriors may only get Paul's use for one year, they don't want to lose Curry, and then lose Paul a year later. So they replaced Curry with Ellis, but the Hornets turned it down.
That year, Paul was very close to joining the Lakers, and almost joined forces with Kobe, but the league president David Stern intervened to stop it, and then Paul mistakenly joined the Clippers in Los Angeles, from "Queen Bee" to "Captain", and Curry became a lifelong enemy.
If Curry had gone to the Suns, or the Bucks, or the Hornets, would he still be where he is today? I think it's very difficult, Curry may play a stunning personal performance, but it is difficult to achieve this kind of achievement today, what do you think?