However, the 37-year-old 3-point specialist isn’t feeding into that type of talk and says he hasn’t given any thought about it in his 17th season.

Curry told People Magazine that he’s ‘not really putting too much pressure on that.’

‘Thinking about the end robs you of the now,” Curry said. “I’m enjoying the journey of competing and all the work that goes into it. Hopefully that carries me a long way.”

He has shown zero signs of slowing down. Curry has averaged 27.2 points on 46.8/39.1/93.1 shooting splits in 39 games during the 2025-26 regular season.

However, he’s faced minor setbacks this season. Curry just recently missed the All-Star Game and the two previous games for the Warriors as he nurses soreness in his right knee.

The Warriors remain eighth in the Western Conference standings at 29-26. If the postseason began today, they would have a play-in game for the No. 7 playoff spot against the Phoenix Suns.

With the Warriors still hanging in contention and Curry as competitive as they come, there is no retirement in the near future.

‘I’ll declare itself, whenever the time comes to call it quits, which I don’t think is anytime soon,” Curry told People.

Curry was drafted by the Warriors with the seventh pick of the first round of the 2009 NBA Draft. He since has become a 12-time All-star, four-time NBA champion. two-time league MVP, a Finals MVP and an Olympic gold medalist.

He is arguably the greatest NBA 3-point shooter ever and was named to the NBA’s 75th anniversary team.

One thing’s for sure: He’s playing next season.

Curry signed a one-year, $62.59 million veteran contract extension with Golden State through the 2026-27 season.

He already has agreed to participate in the NBA 3-Point Contest during the 2027 NBA All-Star Weekend in Phoenix following a request from this year’s 3-point contest winner Damian Lillard.

Curry is the NBA’s all-time leader in 3-point shots made with 4,233.

Los Angeles Lakers center Deandre Ayton was briefly detained Tuesday, Feb. 17 at an airport in the Bahamas before being released, according to Ayton’s lawyer Devard Francis.

Francis said Ayton was detained on suspicion of being in possession of a ‘very small amount of marijuana’ while at Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau, Bahamas.

Ayton, a native of the Bahamas, last played for the Bahamian national team in 2024.

Francis said the marijuana had been in someone else’s bag, which led to a swift release of Ayton following a brief investigation.

‘The investigators saw that the actual very small amount of marijuana wasn’t in Deandre’s bag, but they still went through their investigations and he was released expeditiously,’ Francis told Reuters in a statement.

Players are no longer tested for marijuana and it has been removed from the banned substance list, according to the CBA regulations.

However, marijuana is illegal in the Bahamas.

Ayton, 27, in his first season with the Lakers has averaged 13.2 points, 8.5 rebounds and a block per game.

The Lakers’ next game is Friday, Feb. 20 at home against the Los Angeles Clippers following the All-Star break

LIVIGNO, Italy — The ones who know, they’ll talk about the words for a long time. Yet, if you didn’t know better – and let’s be honest, most of us would not – they’d sound like some complicated play call an NFL quarterback relays in the huddle:

Left nose butter triple cork 2160 safety.

In freestyle skiing, this is known by another term: Progression.

A new move. A trick so deliciously enticing that Team USA’s Mac Forehand raised both arms and stood with his mouth agape when he landed it cleanly, floored that he’d been able to pull it off at all, much less with an Olympic gold medal on the line. He’d never even practiced it before, he said afterward.

“The nose butter triple 21 has never been done before,” Forehand said. “It was the first night that it has been done – ever. Not even just in contests, I think. Ever.”

Um … ever?

That’s awfully good, right? Seriously, what could be better?

A right nose butter double bio 1620 safety, evidently.

So it was in a snowy freeski men’s big air at Livigno Snow Park. It was one for the ages, right down to the final instant. Norway’s Tormod Frostad one-upped Forehand’s 98.25, getting a 98.50 on his final run to pull ahead of Forehand for good and for gold, winning this stunning duel where neither posted a score worse than a 95 in three attempts.

Truly, neither deserved to lose.

“I think I’m just being biased because he’s American,” said teammate Troy Podmilsak, who barely missed the podium in fourth, “but I really wanted to see (Forehand) on the top spot. I thought maybe he did deserve the top spot. But, I mean, I’m not a judge. And I’m not trying to take anything away from Tormod, either. He skied great.”

Going by the scores, this was the best big air event freestyle skiing has experienced. The judges certainly thought so from their vantage points. Of the 36 scores awarded to the 12 finalists’ three runs, a whopping 15 were 90-plus.

Which was a little surprising, given what had come down in Livigno in the 48 hours leading up the event: Snow!

So much snow. Call it a foot, 18 inches even. The snow just kept falling, and that continued all the way through this event, which went on as planned on a day when everything else on Livigno’s Olympic schedule was postponed by the weather.

Once this big air event started? Outstanding.

Podmilsak was good enough to have a shot to win. He counted scores of 94.00 and 90.50. Fifth-place Konnor Ralph, another American, had a 91.50. Norway’s Birk Ruud, who finished eighth, opened with a 95.00.

The judges perhaps backed themselves into a corner by awarding so many high scores early.

There wasn’t much room to improve.

But wasn’t this the awesomeness you want from an Olympic competition? For the top contenders to push themselves and redefine the sport’s limits in order to win?

Forehand said it was “terrifying” to stand atop the ramp before his final attempt and plan a trick he’d never done before – no one else either. “You don’t really know how it’s going to work,” he said.

What Forehand did was special, and it’s easy to just look at numbers and see “2160” for him and “1620” for Frostad and assume Forehand’s should have been rated as more difficult, because he rotated more.

But, as Forehand explained, it isn’t that simple.

“His tricks aren’t a lot of rotating and a lot of spinning,” Forehand said of Frostad. “… But the way he does it and the approach on takeoff is so unique and so different. I don’t think anyone has ever done (his) two tricks, either, before. It’s cool to see that, and it’s good for our sport. We can only spin so much.”

“It’s the worst job to be a judge,” said Ralph, Forehand’s U.S. teammate. “… How do you decide what’s harder when you’ve never done anything?’

Reach sports columnist Gentry Estes at gestes@gannett.com and hang out with him on Bluesky @gentryestes.bsky.social

MILAN — Amber Glenn shared a message of optimism hours after her tough performance in the women’s short program that likely will keep her out of medal contention at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

‘The world has ended for me many times and yet tomorrow still comes,’ the post read. ‘Keep going.’

One of the highly touted members of the U.S. Blade Angels, Glenn was a medal contender in the women’s singles skating. She started strong in the short program strong with a triple Axel. However, she stepped out of her planned triple loop, which was ruled an invalid element and resulted in no points.

Getting no score on it was a crushing blow and Glenn was emotional as she left the ice, understanding what happened. She got a score of 67.39 and is in 13th place, essentially taking her out of the medal race.

After the event, Glenn didn’t speak to reporters, as skaters typically do after they receive their scores. Glenn still has the free skate, which takes place Thursday, Feb. 19.

The Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) made concessions in its latest CBA proposal submitted to the WNBA, a person with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak publicly about ongoing negotiations.

The source confirmed Tuesday the players’ union submitted a counterproposal in response to the WNBA’s Feb. 7 submission. In Tuesday’s proposal, the WNBPA requested 25% of gross revenue in the first year, increasing over the life of the agreement to an average of roughly 27.5%. The union also proposed a salary cap of less than $9.5M.

The latest revenue share percentage is less than the proposal in December, where players requested 30% of gross revenue. The WNBA is currently offering more than 70% of league and team net revenue. The league is also proposing a salary cap of $5.65 million per year, rising with league revenues.

In Tuesday’s proposal, the WNBPA also advocated for housing to continue in the early years of a player’s career. The union proposes that housing could be shed in later years of a contract and would be adjusted and phased out with players who make a certain amount of money on a multi-year fully guaranteed contract.

In the Feb. 7 proposal, the WNBA conceded team-provided housing. In the revised agreement, one-bedroom apartments would be available for players making the minimum salary. Additionally, two developmental players on each roster would be provided with studio apartments. The players’ union also voiced setting a standard for team facilities that would be codified in the new CBA, a person with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY.

From the league’s perspective, the WNBA offer continues to include a maximum $1 million base salary, with a projected revenue-sharing component that raises players’ maximum total earnings to more than $1.3 million in 2026. The league’s maximum salary would grow to nearly $2 million over the life of the agreement, which would end in 2031. The minimum salary would be more than $250,000 and the average salary would be more than $530,000.

A person with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports there is still a sense of urgency from the players’ union. According to the person, the desire to play in 2026 remains, along with securing a transformational deal where the WNBPA ‘doesn’t negotiate against themselves.’ As the two sides continue to negotiate, the players’ union sent the league dates to meet in person, the person said.

The regular season is scheduled to start May 8. However, before that can happen, the Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire will have expansion drafts. Free agency and the 2026 WNBA draft also need to take place.

What’s more, WNBA players authorized the union executive committee to ‘call a strike when necessary’ in December.

‘I’m feeling better. I’m feeling like the owners are finally really acknowledging and being receptive of what we want and the players as well,’ WNBPA vice president Breanna Stewart said earlier this month.

‘I’m hoping we can get this thing done quickly so then we’re not late [to start the 2026 season]. That’s the thing. It’s like I’ve been telling them, is ― now that we’re a part of a revenue-shared model, you miss games, it’s less money. Not to say that we should submit and just say yes to any proposal that we don’t like, but this is a business now. This is how businesses go.’