Despite bowing out of the playoffs in disappointing fashion, Steph Curry is excited for what’s next to come with Jimmy Butler.
Curry can’t wait to see what unfolds this summer, following the team’s second-round exit at the hands of the Timberwolves.
“Our contracts — me, Draymond, Steve, Jimmy — are all two years [more],” Curry said. “And we want this ride to last as long as possible. But it’s just about what does this team need for next year, answering those questions over the summer, everybody preparing themselves individually to get through another 82-game season hopefully with a little bit more of a comfort room down the stretch where we don’t have to have a two-month gauntlet just to make the playoffs.
“I’m excited about it because there’s clarity [to the top of the roster], although there are a lot of decisions that need to be made over the summer.”
If the Warriors had managed to win one without Curry, who was sidelined with a hamstring injury, everything was aligned for his return in Game 6 on Sunday.
But he’s trying not to dwell on it too much.
“Disappointed for sure,” he said. “We’ll imagine and believe that we could have won everything had we been healthy. But you move on.
“… You look at the sample size the last two months and even the Houston [first-round] series when we had our mind focused on a goal, we had enough to accomplish it and get to a point where we were playing pretty high-level basketball. Does that mean we can win a championship? We hope so.”
Butler once again gushed about how thrilled he is to be playing alongside Curry and Green, something he has done multiple teams since being traded to Golden State around three months ago.
“I’m completely content with who I am as a basketball player, the way that I play the game,” Butler said. “And to come here and know that I’m second to Steph, I think that’s a really good thing, actually, when you talk about one of the greatest players ever to play this game. I get to come here and be his sidekick for a couple more years hopefully. It’s just refreshing. Then you’ve got some really high-level young talent that want to do well, that want to be great, and then the energy is at an all-time high. I don’t think there’s too much more that you can ask for.
“I landed here, and we hit the ground running, and I’m comfortable. I’m happy. I got my joy back, as Buddy [Hield] would say, and I’m very fortunate to be here.”
This roster definitely has more to give.
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