Stephen Curry is ready to overlook yet one more chunk of time.
The four-time NBA champion is predicted to overlook a number of weeks, The Athletic reported Sunday, with what the Warriors mentioned was “partial tears to his superior tibiofibular ligaments and interosseous membrane, in addition to a contusion to his decrease leg.” Curry, 34, underwent an MRI examination Saturday evening after leaving the Warriors’ win over the Mavericks.
Curry harm his left leg whereas defending a drive from McKinley Wright IV. It appeared that Wright’s proper knee collided with Curry’s leg, which left the 3-point taking pictures record-holder limping. He was subsequently pulled from the competition with the Warriors forward 98-78 with 2:01 left within the third quarter.
It additionally appeared that the preliminary tweak truly got here roughly 48 hours earlier throughout a sport in opposition to the Nuggets.
The Warriors in an announcement on Sunday dominated Curry out for Monday’s sport in opposition to the Thunder and mentioned a restoration timeline “will probably be established within the coming days.”
The setback is available in a season that’s been spiraling uncontrolled for the defending-champion Warriors, who’re simply 27-26 and seventh in a deep Western Convention getting into Sunday. They’ve famously been dangerous on the street — simply 7-20 — and are considered one of 10 groups within the West which can be at the very least .500.
That is the most recent in a current historical past of setbacks for the Davidson alum.
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Curry — who was named an All-Star starter final month — has been restricted to 38 appearances of the Warriors’ 53 video games and missed 11 video games from Dec. 16 by way of Jan. 7 with a shoulder damage. Earlier than final season’s championship run, Curry missed the ultimate 12 common season contests with a left foot damage. There was additionally the damaged hand throughout the 2019-20 season, which sidelined Curry for 4 months earlier than a forgotten return on March 5, 2020, days earlier than COVID shut down the league. Curry performed simply 5 video games that season.
Curry, who turns 35 in March, is 326 minutes away from hitting 30,000 regular-season minutes in his 14-year profession, which doesn’t embody a further 4,999 playoff minutes.
Monte Poole of NBC Sports activities Bay Space stories that the Warriors are hoping for Curry’s return to come back after NBA All-Star break, which ends on Feb. 23.
