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The Golden State Warriors avoided a nightmare scenario on Wednesday night, even if it didn’t feel like it in the moment.
Stephen Curry limped straight to the locker room with 32.5 seconds left, leaving Warriors fans bracing for the worst. But the diagnosis that followed brought unexpected relief.
Steph exited the game and went to the Warriors’ locker room in apparent pain pic.twitter.com/R0DqX7jL7j
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Curry is expected to miss at least a week with a quad contusion, a setback but not a season-altering blow for a team already battling inconsistency, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported.
Head coach Steve Kerr made the situation clear after the game, telling reporters, “When I heard it was a quad, I was actually relieved. Better than an ankle or a knee.”
Curry remains the heartbeat of Golden State’s offense, averaging 27.9 points per game while shooting 39.1 percent from deep.
The Warriors already sit at 10 wins and 10 losses, and their struggles become even more pronounced when Curry is off the floor. The team’s offense has been 10.8 points per 100 possessions worse without him, as Charania noted.
That paints an uneasy picture for the week ahead, with Curry projected to miss upcoming matchups against New Orleans and Oklahoma City at home before the team heads to Philadelphia. And the timing couldn’t be worse. Golden State is also dealing with separate injuries to Jonathan Kuminga, DeAnthony Melton, and Al Horford, thinning an already stretched rotation.
Still, the organization is framing this as a bullet dodged. A quad contusion hurts, but it heals. A week on the bench is far kinder than the alternatives that flashed through everyone’s minds when Curry left the floor.
Golden State will now try to stay afloat while its superstar recovers. The Warriors know they can withstand short-term turbulence, what they cannot withstand is losing Curry for months. This time, fortune stayed on their side.
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