Warriors announce severity of Stephen Curry's injury, confirming Steve Kerr's 'high' concern
Steve Kerr admitted that he had a "high" level of concern about Stephen Curry 's injured abdomen, and now, it's easy to see why.
Key points
- STEPHEN CURRY ISSUES RARE PUBLIC RESPONSE TO CRITICS, DEFENDS WIFE AYESHA AMID ACTING-ROLE BACKLASH Golden State had won eight games in a row entering its Wednesday game against the Houston Rockets, but despite rookie Yaxel Lendeborg stepping up again with 25 points and 10 rebounds, the Houston Rockets prevailed with a 115-108 win.
- The Golden State Warriors announced Thursday that Curry suffered a tear in his oblique and will be reevaluated in two weeks.
- Curry made a 3-pointer — his only basket of the game — with about seven and a half minutes left in the first quarter and put his hand on his right side and winced as he backpedaled after the shot.
It goes without saying what Curry means to the Warriors - they went 13-26 in the 39 games he missed last year due to a knee injury.
The Rockets led by nine points early in the fourth quarter before the Warriors got 3-pointers from Georges Niang and De’Anthony Melton to cut the lead to 88-85 with about 10 minutes remaining.
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- Entering Wednesday night, he was averaging 30.6 points per game, the second-best mark in the NBA, on a staggering 45.7% shooting percentage from 3-point land, a career-best.
- But Houston scored the next eight points, with an alley-oop dunk by Thompson before consecutive 3-pointers from Reed Sheppard to make it 96-85 with under nine minutes to go.
- CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE He immediately walked over to Kerr and headed to the locker room.
- But back-to-back 3s from Sheppard and Fred VanVleet left Houston up 102-91 midway through the quarter.
- He appeared to be in pain and was walking gingerly and holding his right side as he exited the court.
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