Steph Curry won’t play GM for his NBA group as a lot as a few of his different celebrity contemporaries, however now he’s about to be an actual govt.
Curry has accepted the place of assistant normal supervisor of the basketball packages for his alma mater of Davidson, the school introduced Monday. Curry, his spouse, and Davidson boosters Don, Matt and Erica Berman are creating an eight-figure fund to help the boys’s and ladies’s basketball groups, the school stated.
“The Davidson experience is top notch,” Curry stated within the college’s launch. “My journey from when I got to Davidson in 2006 to now demonstrated that I had the opportunity to play basketball at the highest level, got a great education, an amazing network through the Davidson alumni and continue to wave the Davidson flag. I want very talented, high character student athletes to have that same experience.”
Curry and Matt Berman — a former Davidson soccer participant — will function assistant normal managers. They’ll report back to normal supervisor Aaron Buntz, a former Below Armour govt.
Curry is the primary lively U.S. skilled athlete to take an administrative job with an NCAA group. Andrew Luck returned to Stanford as its soccer normal supervisor final winter.
Curry’s position with Davidson will likely be to share recommendation from his experiences in school and within the NBA with the group to assist information them by way of what has shifted right into a pro-style NCAA panorama.
The fund Curry and the Bermans are constructing is totally different than conventional booster fundraising. Due to the Home v. NCAA lawsuit settlement, colleges are anticipated to be permitted to instantly compensate athletes beginning within the 2025-26 educational yr.
“The goal for this is to invest in the next student athlete that’s coming into Davidson today,” Curry stated. “They don’t have to take cuts on what the market says they deserve to be part of the brand of what it means to be a Davidson scholar-athlete with integrity in your academic experience. The commitment to a four-year graduation process provides countless opportunities professionally in sports or as a game changer in life. And that leads into my role as an assistant GM with Matt Berman – our ability to be a resource and a sounding board for the program, but also support each student athlete, to develop personal relationships with each of them to help guide them every step of the way through their Davidson experience.”
Curry performed three seasons at Davison for head coach Bob McKillop (his son, Matt, is now the top coach). He led the Wildcats to NCAA Match berths in all three seasons, together with the storybook Elite Eight run in 2008.
Since Curry departed, Davidson has made the match simply 5 instances in 16 seasons. Title, picture and likeness guidelines and the proliferation of the switch portal have shaken up the school sports activities ecosystem. Curry received 4 NBA championships, two league MVPs and was named to 11 All-Star groups after leaving.
In 2022, Curry returned to Davidson to finish his diploma. Now he’s returning to name some pictures.
Being assistant normal supervisor for Davidson provides one other duty onto Curry’s plate. His day job is to hold the burden of the Warriors as their face of the franchise. He additionally helps run the Eat.Be taught.Play basis along with his spouse, is CEO of Curry Model and is concerned in a number of different enterprise ventures.
