Steph Curry says he wants ‘ride to last as long as possible’ with Warriors

Golden State Warriors talisman Steph Curry said he wants to play with the franchise for as long as possible. Curry still has two years left in his contract with the Warriors. The Dubs were knocked out after they suffered a 4-1 Western Conference semifinals loss against Minnesota Timberwolves.

Curry suffered a hamstring strain in the opening game of the series and thus could not play the next four games. The Warriors won the opener but lost the next four matches without their talisman’s services.

“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.”

The Warriors were going all guns blazing as they had defeated the second-seeded Houston Rockets in the first round and it could have been a different story altogether if Curry had not suffered a hamstring injury.

“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.”

Curry and Co. would look to bounce back even stronger in the next season.