Painful silence draped over the generally loud Chase Center. The Golden State Warriors’ nucleus, Stephen Curry tried to set an off-ball screen in the fourth quarter against the Clippers. In doing so, he reacted by limping, rushing straight to the locker room. Just a quarter before the incident, Curry rolled the same left ankle while trying to jerk into space. Given his history of ankle ailment, the anxiety grew thick in the building.
Early in his career, Curry required two ankle injuries to tackle a plague of injuries that threatened his career. Since then, he has stayed out of the danger zone, until today. A medical professional, Dr. Nirav Pandya took some time to examine the gravity of the injury. His update isn’t one that the Warriors fans will appreciate.
Sharing his immediate thoughts, Pandya, an injury analyst deemed the procedures necessary for a team to conduct upon such an injury. It included an x-ray, and MRI due to Curry’s backlog with ankle ailments and then assessing his return to play. That’s the plan Kerr mentions the Warriors have in place to assess the injury.
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Curry tried to return once, however, upon a 13-second repeat of his injury, the Warriors called it a left sprain and said he wouldn’t return to the game again.
As willful a decision it was to get back on the floor for the Warriors, the Chef might have worsened the degree of his injury. According to Pandya, “The combination of 2 relatively quick foot/ankle “rolls” during a short time can exponentially increase the pain an athlete can experience while there is already a baseline level of irritation from the 1st injury,”.
For now, Dub Nation will have their hearts in their mouths while also praying that Stephen Curry doesn’t have to remain on the sidelines for a long time. Luckily, after the game, Kerr did provide a cooling update. The head coach had some conversation with Curry who revealed he feels the injury could be a “mild or moderate” sprain. The golden words? “He doesn’t think it’s too bad,”.
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Before having to walk off the floor due to his left ankle injury, Curry seemed on a path to being a potential closer for the Warriors. The Baby Face Assasin shot the ball well, compiling 18 points before his abrupt exit. The hopes of a comeback muted from that point on. Yet, Andrew Wiggins, a ruthless forward had one of his best games over the last few months.
He scored 29 points, only missing four shots on the night. However, with James Harden running the strings like he did when with the Rockets, the Clippers’ offense has revitalized. His court vision and playmaking, logging 11 assists contributed heavily to three players scoring 20+ points for the LA side.
The Beard’s scoring efficiency may have slightly waned. However, over the three games, he is now averaging 12 assists per game and working incredibly well with the shorthanded Clippers. They improved to a 2-1 record for the season. On the other hand, the Warriors lost their first game since the beginning of the preseason.
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Two blowout wins did boost their confidence. Surprisingly, a Curry injury doesn’t seem to have rattled the locker room. “He’ll be alright,” his teammate Gary Payton II said after the game. But as much optimism settles in the building, there is a growing fear too. “Hopefully he doesn’t miss too many,” he added.
The last time Curry suffered an early setback limiting him to only 5 games in the 2019-20 campaign, the Warriors felt a steep decline. In the shortened seasoned, they only won 15 of their 65 games, missing on any postseason talk. By the looks of it, it doesn’t seem like Stephen Curry or the Warriors are in for such grim fate once again.
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