By Johnny Askounis/ info@eurohoops.net
Stephen Curry has accepted a role as an assistant general manager of his former NCAA team, Davidson, as reported by ESPN senior NBA insider Shams Charania on Monday.
The 36-year-old point guard is in his 16th NBA season since playing for the Wildcats between 2006 and 2009, building his way up to being selected by the Golden State Warriors with the seventh overall pick of the 2009 draft. In 2022, he returned to finish his college course work and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree as a sociology major and was also inducted in the school’s Hall of Fame.
A four-time NBA champion and gold medalist with Team USA in the 2024 Olympic Games, Curry will become the first active player in any major professional league based in North America to take an administrative job with a college team. He is projected to use his experience to provide guidance and advice to male and female athletes.
In his new role, the Akron native will reunite with the associate director of athletic development and basketball revenue of Davidson, Austin Buntz, a former Under Armour global sports marketing team member with a general manager type role at the school.
Logging 55 appearances so far in the 2024-25 Regular Season, Curry has averaged 24.5 points, 6.2 assists, and 4.4 rebounds per contest, helping the Warriors build up a 36-28 record and currently sit sixth in the Western Conference standings, at the lowest seed leading directly to the 2025 Playoffs.