STANFORD – Puffing on a cigar between decisive swings at the Stanford Golf Course, Steph Curry looked as if he did not have a care in the world on Wednesday afternoon.
He sure was busy, though.
After mingling with former pro football stars such as Steve Young and Peyton Manning during a charity fundraiser for his “Eat. Learn. Play.” foundation and enjoying the company of new business partner Google, the Warriors star posed with a bottle of his “Gentleman’s Cut” bourbon.
With his career closer to the end than the beginning at age 37, focusing on his off-court partnerships and endeavors must have become easier with age, right?
Not quite.
“It might make it harder, because the main thing is getting everything I can out of basketball, and how I can budget that time,” said Curry, whose season begins Oct. 21 when the Warriors visit the Lakers. “But the scale of the work that we’re doing, like the partnership with Google, Workday, the investment around what ‘Eat. Learn. Play.’ has done, and you have fun with other ventures, every minute is still the same 60 seconds.”
With the season nearly two months away, Curry did not comment on the Warriors having made no free agent moves, but did make it clear that he has not obsessed over the details of the upcoming schedule.
“It’s 82 games, so you don’t ever want to get too ahead of yourself,” Curry said.
But that didn’t mean there aren’t a few road games he is looking forward to, and they have nothing to do with the quality of opponent or the magnitude of star he will be facing.
“I know when I go to Charlotte and see my family, and I know when I go to Toronto and I see my family, so I circle those dates at the end of December,” Curry said. “But other than that, I’m just excited that I get another chance to play basketball for a 17th year. It’s kind of crazy.”
Curry is coming off a season in which he was third-team All-NBA and led the Warriors to the second round of the playoffs.
But the man with four NBA championships was, mostly, focused on fundraising for his foundation at Wednesday’s event, which was also attended by former teammate Andre Igoudala and current assistant coach Bruce Fraser.
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The organization has raised $8.7 million over the last five years, with the money going toward meals, reading resources and updated play areas for children in the Oakland Unified School District.
CEO Chris Helfrich told the Bay Area News Group that ELP is aiming to raise over $20 million this year alone. According to both Curry and Helfrich, the program is strictly focused on Oakland and has no plans of branching out to other parts of the Bay Area.
“We’re proud of planting our flag in Oakland, and of how much it means to support a community that has supported us since ‘09,” Curry said.