“I don’t know if the timing was right (for Seth to join us) over recent years,” Kerr said. “We probably didn’t have playing time for him. He was in a place where he was going to teams and playing a lot, making money. It just feels like (Stephen and Seth are) both at a point in their careers where this makes a ton of sense. I’m thrilled to have Seth.”
At a news conference following Thursday’s practice, Seth Curry explained why he decided to join the Warriors after resisting the idea of teaming up with older brother Stephen Curry throughout his career, writes Sam Gordon of The San Francisco Chronicle. Seth told reporters that he was trying to “create my own path” in the NBA, and playing in his brother’s shadow would have interfered with that.
Coach Steve Kerr agreed with that reasoning, saying it would have been awkward to have both brothers on the team earlier in their careers.
While Steph became a legend in the Bay Area, the younger Curry faced a different journey, working his way up through the G League and playing for nine teams over the past 11 years. He has been a deadly outside shooter wherever he has gone, and Gordon notes that his career percentage of 43.3% from beyond the arc is slightly better than his brother, who is considered possibly the greatest three-point shooter in NBA history.
Seth holds a non-guaranteed Exhibit 9 deal, and he’s expected to be waived before the start of the regular season. The plan is for him to rejoin the team at some point during the season on a pro-rated veteran’s minimum deal due to the Warriors’ hard-cap situation.
“Everybody’s excited about it,” he said. “Instead of watching more games, it should be just easier to watch my game, which is easier on everybody. Everybody is excited about it, except maybe my dad (Dell Curry). He didn’t want me to leave Charlotte.”
There’s more on the Warriors:
- Golden State will likely become the first team in NBA history with four starters who are at least 35 years old, so Kerr will have to be cognizant of playing time to minimize injuries, Gordon states in a separate story. Thirty-nine-year-old Al Horford joins Stephen Curry (37), Jimmy Butler (36) and Draymond Green (35), and the team has reserves Gary Payton II and Buddy Hield who will both turn 33 during the season. “We don’t want to be in a position where you’re chasing (a playoff berth) down the stretch of the season,” Curry said. “It felt like every game was a playoff game for two straight months and then you transition into a very tough seven-game series and then you’re 48 hours from a round two, Game 1. It was a very condensed high level of basketball.”
- Butler missed practice Friday and Saturday while recovering from a rolled ankle and Kerr considers him a “question mark” for Sunday’s preseason opener, according to Dalton Johnson of NBC Sports Bay Area (Twitter link). Trayce Jackson-Davis has a taped right thumb and is also considered questionable.
- Brandin Podziemski was used as a starter at Thursday’s practice, but Kerr said nothing has been decided yet, per Anthony Slater of ESPN (Twitter link).
So old! But I’m looking forward to this campaign with great excitement. If they can manage these geezers’ workload and limit injuries they could have a nice season.
The key is depth. They manage their mins and back to back gms. Keep them strong for playoffs. The key is going deep in your bench during season.
It will be difficult if the younger players don’t step up. If they are reliable, it reduces how much Kerr has to play the older guys.
Warriors will be the only team in the NBA where all the handicap spots in team parking is used up. They will be expanding the handicap ramp into the locker room. They installed bars and a bench in the showers in case of a slips. LOL
@giants74 for once, we agree. Podz, Moody, Post, TJD and Kuminga really have to step up and take on more of the minutes from Curry, Jimmy, Al, Dray and Seth/Payton/Buddy. Santos being a big wild card, if he can make the next step (learn how to space better) suddenly this roster goes to the moon. Both Melton and Richards are also even more massive wild cards who also could keep pushing the ceiling higher if they both trend up. GSW has so many high ceiling/high reward plays this year that things could go very well (everyone stays healthy), or very poorly (everybody gets hurt).
Davey, I agree on Santos. Somewhat of a forgotten name, but he could be an X factor. He has a nice looking shot and I love his defense.
Again, I don’t agree with the Warriors brass’s take on Seth Curry. These guys were using Chris Chiozza as Steph’s backup, Seth is way better than him, and honestly always was the perfect backup PG to Steph. He -should- have been the backup PG all along.
@daveyj It wasn’t time for Seth to play with Steph because he wanted to be his own man. His career is almost done now. He’s got 1 year left. 2 max.
But Seth is not a PG. He’s a scorer. You will never see Kerr use Seth as PG.
I agree it would be a miracle to see him back at the traditional PG “1” in 2026, my point was more towards the pre-2020 era, when Seth was running the point quite a bit. But also, he is kinda perfect on this particular Warriors team which has Dray and Jimmy playing point. Dray and Jim finding Seth and Al in the corners wide open from Steph double and triple teams all year, sounds nice btw
I agree Seth fits offensively. But where does he get his minutes?
He’s not going to get many minutes if everything goes well tbh he’s literally going to be the last man or second last man on the bench, he’s not really an important part of the team, but he fills a role, and that role is “shoot 40% from 3”.
Once again, I must restate it: Kuminga -should- lead the team in MPG, if only for the fact he is young and the older guys have to be still active in May-June. Moody and Podz have to be good in heavy minutes this year too, and they will likely be, as they were before the injuries they both played through last year. I love the youth on this team, Post is going to learn from Horford, TJD might also get some development by Kerr now Kerr has been called out for not knowing how to develop players. Warriors under 30’s are equally interesting than the over 30’s imo
It’s wild how “playing through an injury” makes players play bad. Almost like they should not play if they are hurt, or something.
Warriors still can use a rim protector. If they want to compete for West. All the top teams in West have good bigs, real centers. By adding a true center. Not only do you help your team D and rebounding. But you also add life to your forwards. They don’t have to bang as much. And know they have a rim protector behind them. All he would do is give 16-18 mins a game. You use him when you need him. A real rim protector. Extends the life of Horford, Dra, Jimmy, Fox, TJD. Cause they don’t have to compete against real bigs on defense as much. Especially at their age. Imagine if you had a Mitch you could use. 15 man roster, 12 suit up for games.
IHart, Chet, Joker, Valanciunas, Adams, Capela, Sengun, Rudy, Zubac, Lopez, JJ, Edey, Ayton, Wemby, Lively, AD ……. Can’t hurt ——
You’re copping with losing Mitch and trying to trade McBride, lols. All in, no more excuses for you and knicks this season. Stop moving goal posts. Name dropping is also cute in some kind of I know the game fashion. You’ll be below ground before the knicks win a chip.
One day you will make sense.
I like Mitch. He is an acquired taste.
Too bad for the Warriors is that they have no cap space to sign a rim protector – they can’t even keep Seth on the roster to start the season due to their hard cap status.
Thats true and for a few teams. As season goes on. Opportunities will be there.
This team effed. Steph Curry going to have a bad year
been hearing that for the last 6 years
Yea but Steph wife hasn’t been destroying them from within the past 6 years
Sounds like someone is having trouble with his Little D. Is nobody Buying The Dip?
Haha, ok, go ahead, logically explain how it “sounds like that? Or you just spewing random nonsense because you ain’t got anything useful to say?
You are the one that brought up Curry’s wife. They’ve been together since college. I don’t see how she could be destroying the team. So, you must be projecting your own problems.
Your hateful tears about warriors is tasty. Just shows how they own you if you come to the warriors article and must cry about how they dominated your team
Big D doesn’t support any teams, he is only a Dubs hater lol
Not at all, last week I was saying they would be win it all if healthy. I’m just an objective observer instead of a glazing groupie that gets triggered into manic depression when I hear something I don’t like.
Haha, what kind of fabricated nonsense is that? Please show me where I “cried about how they dominated my team”?
Ps. I don’t have a team, I find rooting for laundry to be an absolute pathetic and brainless mindset. I just like basketball
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“Ps. I don’t have a team, I find rooting for laundry to be an absolute pathetic and brainless mindset.”
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Sure like anyone believes you little d. If that were true you wouldnt be on a NBA site putting down teams. Just by you being here shows your feelings are hurt. I am guessing another burner account to hide who you truly are. If not the comment screams for attention from you. That is sad.
Here you go:
link to hoopsrumors.com
My exact words: of healthy, warriors win the championship” …you even liked my comment
The only thing sad here, is the fact that mommys basement got you so far detached from reality, you have to fabricate fictional situations to justify how useless your life is. Good luck with that
So, Curry’s wife isn’t destroying the team? Which is it?
She is. You ain’t see her on the podcast the other day bashing Steph and her family? Do you not know how time works?
Now you comment makes 0 sense. If they are being destroyed within for teh past 6 years why would you claim they will win a championship? Can you explain because it looks like you did a 180
Didn’t say she was the past 6 years. This all happened the other day. How you a warriors fan and not update on current warrior news? Smh.
most people could care less what a wife of a sports player says. Who cares what she says. I heard stories about her that makes her sound like a snob. It has 0 effect on the warriors. Without Curry she would be nowhere.
Dude is headed for a divorce after that. You ever work with anyone going through divorce? It’s toxic asf, they bring everyone down around them. When your best player and leader is going through a divorce it’s going to have all the effect on the team.
they are not getting a divorce. I know people who have worked with her and she has a huge ego. She thinks she is all that. She is just trying to make herself feel good about herself. She is just a women hitting middle age claiming she would be sucessful by herself. pay no attention to her.
Haha, so you’re saying if your wife said she hates her life, doesn’t want her children and accused you of oppressing her you would stay with her? Oh yea, that is so much better! Yeesh, good luck with that!
Except she didn’t say that.
She said she didn’t originally expect to have kids and had goals, doesn’t mean she hates her life.
She’s being honest, she’s working through things in therapy. She is a human being who should be allowed to have those feelings.
FYI, her saying Steph doesn’t understand her does not equal Steph oppressing her.
There’s zero indication that they’ll get a divorce.
That is what she said.
If he doesn’t divorce her, dude is a straight up simp. He may be a great basketball player, but as a man, to allow your wife to say that about you and your kids, is absolutely pathetic. They are the new will Smith and Jada pinkett.
FYI, repeating a lie doesn’t actually make it true.
Saying something didn’t happen when it happened doesn’t mean it didn’t happen
So here’s a link to the podcast so you can point out the timestamp where she says what you claim she did.
Have at it:
link to youtube.com
Just listen your own link, it’s right there
I did, and what you claim she said isn’t there.
But it is, listen to the link you provided
@NBAisOk, don’t feed this jerk. Anybody that wants to pick on Steph’s family deserves to be muted.
So Steph’s wife deserves to be muted?
I don’t mute, IMO blocking people is weak. Notice that they can’t prove their claim with the actual podcast available?
I agree, thanks for proving my point
Not what she said. Still, Ayesha — who has since had three more children with Steph — said she doesn’t regret her choices. Have you ever had regrets in life? Of course everyone does.
Sure, I regretted eating that chili cheese dog I ate early. But that’s a far cry from regretting kids. Most people are a bit more decisive before they decide to spread their legs and pop out babies. It’s kind of a big choice to make
They have been together for over 20 years. If they were going to get divorced, it would have happened a decade ago.
Yea because no one has ever gotten divorced after 20 years….the delusion is strong
@The Big D(ebbie Downer)
The roster is a lot better than it was a year ago. Steph should be able to play fewer minutes.
Mkay
> The roster is a lot better than it was a year ago.
Agreed, but, like you suggest above, we have 1 huge hole. We need a rim protecting, big bodied banger that can give us 24 minutes per game, when needed.
The West got even bigger this offseason. I’ve read comments from execs from Denver, Clippers, and Houston saying they believe OKC is vulnerable to size in the front-court, so they added size this offseason.
I like the idea of GSW using the 2 stretch 5’s, Horford and Post, as our primary centers, but there are going to be plenty of games where those two together don’t give us the mass we need. (And Horford will miss a lot of games.) I’m thinking about a Goga Bitadze, Zach Collins, even Andre Drummond. A true big. There could be games where they sit, but there will be games we’ll lose if we have only Post and TJD.
I think we have the trade chips to acquire such a player. We have too many off-guards. I’d be willing to trade Moody’s $12M if it could get us a rotation-quality big like Bitadze. Failing that, having a Drummond on the bench will win us 3-4 games we’ll lose otherwise because of being undersized up front.
Also: Seth Curry should have SETH on his jersey. NBA should allow it. Leave Curry’s name alone @Luke207
@aristotle
Bitadze, yes – Collins and Drummond, no.
I’d prefer Vucevic, the guy not only rebounds in double digits every year, but shot $0% from three last season.
Vooch would be fine if he agreed to be used like how GSW used Bjelica in 2022. He’s like a better version of 2022 Bjelica (who retired immediately after winning the chip, so it was “late career” Bjelica not even the best version of him – Vooch clears him by a mile right this second, but Vooch is is on the downslide also right this second).
@nbaisok, We likely view differently the urgency around getting another big body on the defensive end. Post and TJD will be bbq chicken on defense too often. In the best case, we lose 3-4 games because we can’t stop opposing bigs. It’s very possible that a lengthy injury to Horford and/or Draymond costs us the season.
I love Bitadze for the role also, but you’d need to move Moody…a no-brainer if you could do it because we have such an excess of 2 guards.
As far as Drummond, yes he has huge limitations, but he’s a legit banger that can hold it down defensively against the best offensive centers in the league. And he’s on a $5M expiring contract.
IMO, defensively, Vucevic doesn’t offer more than TJD or Post at this stage of his career. Would love him on the roster, but only if we could get him for free.