Steph Curry is fined by his mother for committing turnovers

Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors gives his mother $100 for each excessive turnover, an agreement they’ve had for a few seasons

Steph Curry and his mother have had an agreement dating back a few seasons:

If Steph turns the ball over more than three times in a game, he owes his mom $100 per turnover more than his allotted three turnovers per game, according to the Ann Killion of the San Francisco Chronicle.

That’s quite a steep price for how often Curry has the ball in his hands.

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This season, Curry is averaging 3.2 turnovers per game, so his mom, Sonya, is making a profit nearly every time Curry steps on the court. That’s not a bad business model for his mom.

Also, as a stipulation of the agreement, every time Curry records less than three turnovers in a game, that number is subtracted from the total.

For instance — just so we’re all clear here — in his last two games, Curry had one turnover against the Denver Nuggets and two turnovers against the Houston Rockets. In that scenario, Curry gets back $300 that he owed to his mom at some point. In other words, he’s built himself a little bit of a buffer.

According to the SF Chronicle column, Curry doesn’t cut his mom a check, though. He actually just buys his mother very expensive gifts in the form of clothes, shoes, jewelry, and other luxury items.

While the motherly fines for turnovers is not the equivalent of having your mom manage your bank account (S/O to Michael Carter-Williams), it still feels a little silly.

However, I’m not going to argue with results.

This season, Curry is playing the best all-around basketball of his whole career, and the Golden State Warriors are in sole possession of the NBA’s best record at 33-6. On top of all that, Curry might even be the favorite to win the MVP Award, if the season ended today.

But, I mean, Curry’s an All-Star guard and one of the best players in the NBA; he’s not thinking about how much money he’s giving away to his mom.

Wrong! Curry is thinking about his turnovers, or at least that’s what he told Killion.

“When I get to two I think, ‘Dang, I can’t have any more.’ If I get four it’s frustrating even more than just playing the game,” he said.

I guess, for an NBA star like Curry, he is quite underpaid, but I didn’t think it was “pinching pennies”-bad for him.

Curry is currently in the middle of a four-year, $44 million contract. Although he’s worth a max contract and will get it in the near future, Curry had ankle issues early in career, which forced him to take a contract less than he was worth.

Until Curry gets that max money, which could be a huge deal with NBA salary cap jump and a new Collective Bargaining Agreement on the horizon, he’ll have to keep cutting his mom checks for turnovers and feeling it in his bank account.

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