Is Curry’s Fight With Carpenters Union a 3-Point Shot?

Something similar to the risk-reward proposition behind a 3-pointer in basketball looks to be in play as Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry takes a shot at the Nor Cal Carpenters Union.

Curry has announced a cancellation of plans to build a headquarters for Thirty Ink, the umbrella office for his various off-the-court business interests, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Representatives of the city’s biggest sports star of the past generation said the decision came in response to demands by the labor group from union workers to account for more than 40 percent of the workers on the project.

Curry spokesperson Michael Smith told the Chronicle the plan for Thirty Ink, currently based in the South of Market neighborhood, to build the new headquarters at 600 20th Street in the Dogpatch district, “has been destroyed by the Carpenters Local Union.”

The project Curry envisioned would have been privately financed, eliminating any requirement for union labor, according to Smith. Thirty Ink nevertheless had crafted a plan that would have seen union workers get 40 percent of the work, he said, contending that the Nor Cal Carpenters Union, also known as Local 22, had signaled satisfaction with the plan initially.

Smith called out union boss Jacob Adiarte in announcing Curry’s decision to cancel the project.

“Unfortunately, our generous and completely unnecessary approach has been deemed unacceptable by Jacob Adiarte, who has personally gone out of his way to make it untenable for us to build in San Francisco,” he told the Chronicle.

Sam Singer, the union’s spokesperson, took issue with those claims.

“Either you want to do what is right or you want to undercut the labor standards and hurt working men and women,” Singer told the publication. “Local 22 of the Carpenters Union will not let anyone, even an NBA superstar, undercut labor standards.”

Thirty Ink’s plans called for a 25,000-square-foot property with offices and lab space, with a residential unit for visitors and some space for community events and arts activities.

The matter has been declared “dead” by Curry’s team, but union representatives floated the possibility of resuscitating the plan.

A statement from Curry’s team indicated the perennial all-star might look for another shot altogether.

“The Thirty Ink HQ would have represented something far greater than a building; it would have been the next step in the revitalization of the Dogpatch neighborhood and an undeniable symbol of our long-term commitment to purposeful growth and community engagement in the Bay area,” the statement read.