Loyalty is something rare in today’s NBA. We saw great players like Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant and Dirk Nowitzki spending their entire careers with one team, doing impressive things with these franchises while becoming the greatest players in their positions and the game in general. Nowadays, that is extremely rare. As a matter of fact, only two players have remained with the team that drafted them over a decade ago.
That’s how things change in the NBA when every season you can see a lot of players moving from one team to another. These two players are Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry and Washington Wizards’ John Wall. Curry was selected in the 2009 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors with the No. 7 overall pick, taking his team to become a dynasty a couple of years later alongside Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Kevin Durant from 2016 through 2019.
Curry is a 3x NBA champion now, a 2x NBA MVP and the only unanimous MVP in the history of the game during his years with the Dubs. He is not planning to go somewhere else. The Warriors have the hunger, the players and the capacity to be great once again and this season they’re ready to prove that.
As for Wall, he’s been All-Star plenty of times and has become one of the best point guards in the league. This season he’s ready to demonstrate that his team can compete in a league that will bring a bigger competition starting Dec. 22.
In a league when trades, free agency decisions can change everything every single year, Curry and Wall have remained loyal to the franchises that trusted them when they entered the league.
