{"id":3923,"date":"2024-08-30T21:38:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T21:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nba-stephen-curry-signs-contract-extension-with-golden-state-warriors\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T21:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T21:38:21","slug":"nba-stephen-curry-signs-contract-extension-with-golden-state-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nba-stephen-curry-signs-contract-extension-with-golden-state-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Stephen Curry signs contract extension with Golden State Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Curry has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/extra\/zxack0e542\/How-Curry-rebuilt-basketball\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">revolutionised the way basketball is played.<\/a> He and Thompson became known as the &#8216;Splash Brothers&#8217; for their shooting prowess from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Curry was the biggest threat. Despite standing at 6ft 2in, his accuracy from behind the three-point line has meant players in every position are now expected to be able to shoot &#8211; and guard against &#8211; three-point shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the 2022 season, Curry became the NBA&#8217;s all-time leader in three-pointers. His tally now stands at 3,747.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the end of that season, the Warriors became NBA champions for the fourth time in eight years, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/basketball\/61837767\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">seen as Curry&#8217;s &#8216;crowning achievement&#8217;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two years on, his powers have shown little sign of waning. Last season, Curry averaged 26.4 points, 4.5 rebounds and 5.1 assists while shooting 45% overall and 40.8% on three-pointers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He led the NBA in three-point field goals for the eighth time in his career, with 357 the third most in a single season. Curry tops that list with 402 in 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last season Curry also led the league for points (189), three-pointers (32) and field goals made (59) during the decisive final minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At this summer&#8217;s Olympics in Paris, the point guard became only the fifth NBA player to have won at least four NBA championships, two MVP awards and an Olympic gold medal &#8211; after LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Bill Russell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c62rgl33ejlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curry has revolutionised the way basketball is played. He and Thompson became known as the &#8216;Splash Brothers&#8217; for their shooting prowess from three-point range. But Curry was the biggest threat. Despite standing at 6ft 2in, his accuracy from behind the three-point line has meant players in every position are now expected to be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3925,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions\/3925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}