Steph Curry breaks silence about LeBron James potentially joining Warriors

Curtis Pashelka, Bay Area News Group on Jul 8, 2026

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Golden State Warriors guard Steph Curry had a simple answer when asked by a spectator about the possibility of playing with LeBron James this upcoming season.

“I don’t mind it,” Curry said Wednesday as he prepared for this week’s American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe Resort.

James, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer and a four-time MVP, remains a free agent after informing the Los Angeles Lakers late last month that he plans to play for a different team during the 2026-27 season, which will be his 24th in the league.

In one of the NBA’s biggest offseason stories. James, 42, is presently considering a slew of organizations he’s willing to join, including the Warriors and two of his former teams, the Miami Heat and Cleveland Cavaliers.

Curry and James competed against each other in four straight NBA Finals from 2015 to 2018, with the Cavaliers’ lone title coming in 2016. The two megastars also combined to help Team USA go 6-0 at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and win the gold medal with Steve Kerr as their coach.

The Warriors have been relatively quiet this summer as they hope to bounce back from an injury-plagued 2025-26 season in which they went 37-45 and missed the playoffs for the second time in three years.

But the Warriors, with Curry, Draymond Green and a healthy Jimmy Butler, could put themselves back in title contention by adding James, who averaged 20.9 points in 60 games with the Lakers last season.

“I’d say more so I’m interested to just play golf with LeBron,” Curry said. “We’ll handle the basketball stuff, but I want to see the golf LeBron free agent. He’s out here really grinding on the game. But I’m sure we obviously would love to play together.”

“I mean, hopefully it happens. But he deserves the opportunity and the right to take his time with the decision.”

Charles Barkley, who is again competing in the American Century Championship, said James should return to Cleveland for a third stint with the Cavaliers rather than the Warriors, Heat, or Philadelphia 76ers, who recently acquired Jaylen Brown from the Boston Celtics.

“If he goes to Philly, people are going to say he’s ring chasing to catch Michael (Jordan),” Barkley recently told NBC Sports Philadelphia. “If he goes to Golden State, they’re going to say he’s ring chasing. … What he does have is his hometown team. If he goes to the Cavaliers, they’re probably going to be favored to win the East … and it’ll be a fitting way for him to finish his career.

“He’s got no affiliation with Philly. He’s got no affiliation with the Golden State Warriors. I hear people talk about, ‘yeah, it would be fun to watch all those old geezers in Golden State play.’ It would be fun if he went to Philly. (The Sixers) probably would definitely be the favorite, but he doesn’t have any affiliation to Philly.”

Curry won the American Century Championship in 2023 and is joined at the tournament by his brother, Seth, and his dad, Dell. Former San Jose Sharks captain Joe Pavelski is the defending champion.

Other athletes with Bay Area ties competing in the event include 49ers fullback Kyle Juszcyk, and team legends Jerry Rice and Steve Young, as well as former Oakland Raiders Tim Brown, Charles Woodson and Derek Carr.

The celebrity-filled tournament begins Friday and runs through Sunday.