Last season, Stephen Curry was riddled with injuries in the final moments of the Warriors’ run, but he’s not done. Ayesha Curry says she has one message for her husband heading into another Golden State Warriors season: one more championship is still in him. The actress and entrepreneur shared that sentiment in a joint interview with The Hollywood Reporter, days after Stephen picked up the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award at the 2026 ESPYs for his work with the Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation.The comments land in the middle of a packed summer for the couple. Stephen is rehabbing from last season’s knee injury and weighing a contract extension, while Ayesha steps into her first lead film role in Roku’s holiday rom-com. Together, the pair are also set to be named Philanthropists of the Year at The Hollywood Reporter’s Social Impact Summit.
Ayesha Curry reveals how she keeps Stephen Curry inspired
Stephen missed 27 straight games last season because of a knee injury, and he told The Hollywood Reporter the setback changed how he trains and how urgently he treats the time he has left on the court. He said he doesn’t dwell on his basketball mortality, but the injury sharpened his intentionality and pushed him to work smarter at 38 than he did five years ago.Ayesha said she reminds him of his ceiling almost every week. “I just know you have one more chip in you,” she told the outlet, adding that she repeats the line to him often. Stephen backed that up by saying he still wants to be the hardest worker in any room he walks into, whatever the season brings.
Ayesha Curry to star in a romantic comedy
Ayesha is headlining Second Chance Holiday alongside Matthew Daddario for the Roku Channel, playing a dating expert convinced she is cursed to get dumped every holiday season until an old flame resurfaces. It marks her first time topping a film call sheet after supporting roles in Irish Wish, Joy to the World and A Black Lady Sketch Show, plus a voice role in this year’s animated hit GOAT.“It’s an honor to be part of Second Chance Holiday,” Curry said in a statement announcing the project. Stephen, meanwhile, has built out Unanimous Media into a full production company under a Comcast NBCUniversal deal, with GOAT grossing close to $200 million and the MLK documentary short The Baddest Speechwriter of All picked up by Netflix after winning at Sundance.
Ayesha Curry celebrated Stephen Curry’s ESPYs win
Curry became the fourth NBA player to win the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award, following Chris Paul, Kevin Durant and Jrue Holiday, with Ayesha by his side at New York’s David H. Koch Theater on July 15. She marked the moment on Instagram with a simple message: “So proud of my baby, always.”Accepting the award from Lindsey Vonn, Curry credited Oakland’s role in the foundation’s growth. “It’s about what happens when a community shows up for its kids,” he said, pointing to the city where the Warriors won their first three titles together. Eat. Learn. Play., which he and Ayesha launched in 2019, has since expanded access to meals, education and recreation programs for local youth, and the recognition keeps coming: People Magazine reports the couple will join singer John Mayer and actor Michael J. Fox as Philanthropists of the Year at next week’s Social Impact Summit.None of it settles the bigger basketball question hanging over Curry’s summer. He’s already made a personal pitch to free agent LeBron James about joining the Warriors, and his own contract situation, one year remaining, remains unresolved heading into training camp.
