Six minutes, then the hand on the side
It lasted less than six minutes. Stephen Curry knocked down one three, missed his other two shots, then reached for his right side and walked off with Warriors medical staffer Drew Yoder. Golden State trailed 19-10 with 6:25 left in the first quarter in Houston. He never came back.
The Warriors ruled him out early in the second quarter. By the second half Curry had already left the arena to get an MRI on what the team called right abdominal soreness. The results had not come through by the time the building emptied.
Steve Kerr did not try to soften it. “Concern is high, but I have no idea the extent of the injury,” the coach told reporters after the game.
no renewal
Free for 2 weeks.
A streak gone, a bigger problem left behind
Houston won 115-108. Alperen Sengun came close to a triple-double and the Rockets pulled away in the fourth quarter, ending Golden State’s winning run at eight games. That part stings for a night. Losing Curry for any real stretch would hurt far more.
He is 38, in his 18th NBA season, and still the engine. Through 10 games he was putting up 27.8 points, 3.9 assists and 3.7 rebounds a night. Across 1,079 career games, 1,071 of them starts, the 2009 No. 7 pick averages 24.8 points, 6.3 assists and 4.6 rebounds. Four rings. Twelve All-Star nods. Two MVPs. None of that helps an abdominal muscle heal faster.
Waiting on one scan
Everything now runs through that MRI. Abdominal issues are tricky for shooters, because every jumper and every hard cut loads the same area, and the Warriors have offered no timeline. Next up is a trip to face a San Antonio side that has won 10 in a row. Doing that without their best player would be a very different test.
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