Stephen Curry limped away from the bench late in Golden State’s 104-100 loss to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night time after bruising his proper quadriceps.
He’ll endure an MRI examination on the harm to find out his standing.
The Warriors must regroup with the concept Curry is likely to be out for a stretch.
“It clearly adjustments all the things, our rotations, how we’re enjoying, who we’re enjoying by, so we’ll see,” coach Steve Kerr mentioned. “After I heard it was a quad I used to be truly form of relieved, higher than an ankle or a knee, so hopefully he can get well shortly and be OK. However we’ve obtained to carry down the fort.”
Curry and Amen Thompson went down arduous below the basket with 3:24 remaining and the sport tied at 91 after Thompson’s drive to the ring, which initially was whistled an offensive foul. Houston challenged and the decision was overturned to a block by Curry.
Kerr mentioned he may see Curry ailing after that play. The 2-time MVP completed with 14 factors on 4-for-13 taking pictures — 2 of 9 on 3-pointers — seven rebounds, 5 assists and 7 of the Warriors’ 16 turnovers that led to 22 Houston factors.
“That’s a problem, if Steph is out all people else has to form of enhance their recreation lots to fill that void,” rookie Will Richard mentioned.
Guard Gary Payton II additionally suffered a sprained left ankle that restricted him to simply below 5 minutes.
Jimmy Butler mentioned “it’s simply unhappy” how the Warriors don’t comply with their recreation plan and do the little issues typically and challenged all people to ”care extra” concerning the particulars — particularly in the event that they’re with out Curry.
“What is going to change essentially the most? I believe we’re going to must be rattling close to excellent. We ain’t going to have the last word bailout on our group, however even when he’s on the ground we’re going to must do our job as a result of we make the sport actual tough. As nice as a basketball participant as he’s he has a extremely arduous job each single day, he’s obtained to be the Batman of all Batmans and save us each night time. That ain’t what he’s right here to do.”
Revealed on Nov 27, 2025