‘Maybe’: NBA Superstar Stephen Curry Open to Running for President

NBA basketball player Stephen Curry, of the Golden State Warriors, arrives at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles on July 20, 2022. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

NBA superstar Stephen Curry said in an interview that aired on March 12 that he is open to the idea of running for office, even for the presidency.

“Maybe,” said the Golden State Warriors shooting guard on “CBS Mornings” when asked if he would run for the White House.

“I have an interest in leveraging every part of my influence for good in a way that I can, so if that’s the way to do it, then, I’m not saying the presidency,” he said before being interrupted by the interviewer who reminded him that he said “maybe” to running for president.

He will not be run in 2028, he said.

Mr. Curry was on CBS to promote his second fictional children’s book “I Am Extraordinary,” which tells the story of a girl named Zoe who gains confidence despite having to wear hearing aids. She shows it is okay to be different and she ends up with playing for her school’s soccer team.

This is not the first time Mr. Curry, one of the greatest three-point shooters of all time, has chimed in on politics.

After the Warriors won the 2017 NBA finals, Mr. Curry voiced his objection to going to the White House for the ceremonial celebration they host for teams winning their championships.

“I don’t want to go,” he told to reporters. In response, then-President Donald Trump revoked the invitation.

“Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team. Stephen Curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn!” he posted on Twitter.

In a statement, the Warriors accepted that they were disinvited by President Trump but acknowledged his right to express himself. They said they would “use our trip to the nation’s capital ... to celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion, the values that we embrace as an organization.”

Mr. Curry, a liberal, objected to affordable housing being built near his residence in California last year, with both he and his wife, Ayesha Curry, citing “major concerns in terms of both privacy and safety,” according to The Washington Free Beacon

“We hesitate to add to the ‘not in our backyard’ (literally) rhetoric, but we wanted to send a note before today’s meeting,” the couple wrote in a letter to the city of Atherton in California. “Safety and privacy for us and our kids continues to be our top priority. Should that not be sufficient for the state, we ask that the town commits to investing in considerably taller fencing and landscaping to block sight lines onto our family’s property,” they added.

Mr. Curry endorsed President Joe Biden in 2020.

The year before, Mr. Curry declined to condemn China for its subversion of Hong Kong’s sovereignty.

“I think this one, it’s a league-wide situation and our presence in China is just a different conversation than coach [Steve Kerr] talking about gun violence or gender equality, things that for us as being [sic] spokespeople for people who can’t speak for themselves within our communities, that that makes a huge impact,” he told reporters.

“This situation—is a huge weight and gravity to it—and there remain some things that need to be sorted out,“ he continued. ”I just don’t know enough about Chinese history and how that’s influenced modern society today in that interaction to speak on it. So that’s just where we’re at. It’s not going away. So we’ll come back to it.”

In 2015, Mr. Curry appeared in an ad by the pro-gun control group Everytown For Gun Safety.

“I have a voice and I want to share it and stop gun violence in its entirety. I heard about a shooting involving a 3-year-old girl over the summer. My daughter Riley’s that age,” he said.

“Whatever we can do to hopefully change our culture, that’s what we’re here for,” he continued. “I have a voice, and I want to share it and stop gun violence in its entirety.”