Stephen Curry: In 2025-26 will the decline of your game begin?
Stephen Curry will play his tenth season with the Warriors. Will the decline come to his career?
Stephen Curry He will play his seventh season in the NBA With a single mission: extend the dynasty of the Golden State Warriors.
The curry level season after season has remained and has led him to be one of the great stories of the NBA.
What challenges does Curry face with the Warriors? The experts of AM850 They help us find the answers.
1- Reality or fiction: 2025-26 will mark the beginning of Stephen Curry’s decline …
Victor O. López: Reality. At some point it has to happen. It is normal for any player (with the exception of LeBron James) that begins to lose a step (or several) already closer to 40 years (Steph has 37).
His shot, the best in the history of the NBA, will be the last to leave, which means that he must still be a productive player for a few more seasons. But it could have more difficulties when generating separation from the defender or moving without the ball.
Of course, Steph will have its explosive and electrical moments on the court during the season, but bet on more than we have seen during his brilliant career would be risky.
Marcelo Bousquet: Double fiction. First, because it does not seem logical to think that, with the current template, Stephen Curry is forced to take his team to the promised land once more. It is clear that Warriors are not contenders.
Secondly, because if we have to talk about the beginning of its decline, we can argue that last season they began to see the first indications that the chef, like other great stars, will not be able to beat the pulse over time. His averages of the regular season declined in the playoffs where he had the lowest averages of his career at points (22.6), tried court shots (16.3) and assists (5.1).
2- A number of Stephen Curry en route to the next season …
Hiram Martínez: 5,000. You guessed. That round number points to the amount of triples that Stephen Curry should arrive at some point in the 2025-26 season. Between regular season (4,058) and the playoffs (650) the ‘curry’ chef ‘totals 4,708 triples. With 292, it will become the first player to add 5,000 combining both instances. If it remains healthy, you must reach that threshold at some point in the second part of the season, considering that it averages 357.3 triples for every 82 career matches, including 391.9 in the last five seasons.
With 36 years in the last campaign, he reached 311 from the arch, the sixth largest amount of his career and in 2023-24 the second highest figure of his 16 seasons reached 357. An old sage of basketball said that the last thing a player loses is the aim. If that is true, there will be celebration at some point.
3- The best version of Stephen Curry will be …
López: The same one we have seen for more than a decade at the head of the Warriors. With more coupling time with Jimmy Butler in the offensive, Steph has practically everything in place to make one (last?) Career for the championship still at the top of his powers.
Avoiding injuries is always key, more at 37. We already saw what happened last season in the playoffs when it was absent in the elimination against the Wolves; Steph remains as valuable as any player in the NBA and is crucial for the success of the Warriors who stays healthy on the court as possible.
Out of that, it must be more of the same for Steph in 2025-26 as long as it can be available and healthy, instead of reminding us of its greatness for flashes.
4- The worst version of Stephen Curry will be …
Bousquet: Everyone has seen what the chef is able to do when they have a good team around. We saw it both with the Warriors and the JJ.OO. representing your country.
But the current reality of Golden State is quite a bit from what they knew when they won titles. That is why I would not surprise that Stephen Curry’s worst appears when the production of his companions is not insufficient and will begin to demand that he disguise the deficiencies of the roster dressing as a hero carrying with the weight of the offensive to gain matches.
In other words, his companions must produce more to avoid seeing the worst version of Curry.
5- Do you have gasoline in the tank to Curry to continue loading with the Warriors?
Bousquet: No one can doubt that talent is left over to stay as one of the great NBA figures. But as I said previously, if the Warriors want to be protagonists, who should improve to achieve it are those who surround it. In the last season, the Warriors offensive had a percentage of 45.1% in court shots, 36.4% in triples and 76.4% in free. Curry, on the other hand, launched well above those percentages in triples (39.7%) and free (93.3%). But it was not enough to scare anyone.
The chef also generated several options of comfortable shots for his shooters, but among Draymond Green, Moses Moody, Brandin Podziemski, Jonathan Kumina, De’anthony Melton and Buddy Hield only hit 35.3% of their triple attempts.
Curry can continue making differences, but the rest of the team must be up to it. Otherwise, there will be no miracle.
