Steph Curry is making $62.6M for the Golden State Warriors next season. Based on how much someone paid just to have lunch with Curry, his wife, and Warren Buffett, the Warriors are getting a huge bargain.
Maybe they just really want to
meet Ayesha?
The winning bidder gets a private lunch in Omaha, Nebraska, along with up to seven guests, to dine with the legendary investor and the legendary shooter. And the legendary co-star of “Irish Wish”!
You’d think San Francisco would have a better food scene than Nebraska, but Buffett is 95 years old, so you travel to him. Knowing virtually nothing about the Omaha food scene, we suspect they’ll serve steak.
That may be why Buffett hosted the action on eBay. It benefited the Curry’s confusingly-punctuated “Eat.Learn.Play.” foundation, which provides meals, tutoring programs, book distribution, and rebuilt playgrounds, basketball courts, and soccer pitches at Oakland schools. This Buffett windfall, one that rises to $18M thanks to Buffett matching the winning bid, comes on the heels of Curry raising $1.7M for Eat.Learn.Play by auctioning off a 70-sneaker collection in April.
Buffett started doing the auctions in 2000, and consistently raised at least $1M per lunch from 2008 on, peaking with a $19M bid in 2022. They revived the auction in 2024 and 2025 with Salesforce founder David Benioff, who raised only $1.5M the first year and “six figures” the second year. What a failure!
The Buffett auction originally supported the GLIDE Foundation in San Francisco and its work helping the homeless. This year, they switched to Curry, probably because Buffett was willing to return to hosting lunch if he could meet the Baby-Faced Assassin. Plus, we know how Curry feels about affordable housing.
We’re not sure what Curry and Buffett will talk about. Maybe the legendary investor has some ideas on how to best navigate the NBA luxury tax. Maybe he wants to produce a reboot of “Holey Moley.” Maybe the winning bidder desperately wants to get his spec script for “Goat 2: Goat In The City” to the right people.
Regardless, Steph Curry is putting up big numbers without stepping onto the court. And if you love the Warriors but don’t have $9M lying around, you can probably have lunch with a Golden State of Mind writer for nine bucks.
