Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry opened up recently about the Grade 1 hamstring injury he suffered in Game One against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
“I felt great the whole game up until that point,” he said during a team shootaround on Thursday. “And then I made a little pivot move on defense and felt something, didn’t think it was nothing or anything. I felt like I could just go get it released and be able to come back out. But with soft tissue, stuff like that, it was one of those situations I could have done more damage if I tried to go back out. So obviously a tough break, but hopefully I’ll be back soon.”
Curry spoke about the emotions he experienced after suffering this injury.
“Fight through the last two months of the season, a hard first round that you get through a Game Seven,” he said. “The way that we were playing and I was playing individually, that first half, I was starting to feel really, really good about where we were at, and then you kind of get a gut punch like that. So it was really emotional at first.”
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— 3rd in points
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— Upset the 2 seed
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Even though Curry has suffered injuries before, this is the first time in his career dealing with a hurt hamstring.
“This is new, and from all that I’m learning about how quickly you can get back, there has to be a healing process,” he explained. “You can’t accelerate it more than what it’s telling you. So it’ll be one of those, after a week, really re-evaluating every day to understand when it’s safe just to even think about playing, let alone how much can you push it.”
Curry added that he is going to try to fight the temptation to push through the pain to come back earlier than expected.
“There will eventually be conversations like that,” he clarified. “I’m not even anywhere close to that right now, so I’m not rushing it because there has to be a natural healing process that happens, and the body will tell you, even if you’re able to do normal basketball movements, pain-free and all that stuff. And I know how tricky hamstrings can be, where they can fool you and think that it’s healed even if you don’t feel anything. And so that gray area is a little, will be confusing, I’m sure, but I’ll do everything in my power to get back as soon as possible.”
“This one, I have no clue, so I’m not trying to put any expectations other than I want to feel better each day as I go,” Curry said. “Obviously, working with Rick Celebrini (Golden State’s vice president of player health and performance) and his expertise on doing everything that we can to get me back out there as soon as possible. That’s the mission. And then, whenever that time comes, I should have all the answers.”
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Golden State head coach Steve Kerr knows that he has a tall task at hand with Curry unavailable in Game Two, which is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. EDT tonight.
“It’s a hamstring. Hamstrings are tricky,” he said during a Wednesday phone interview with 95.7 The Game. “We just have to move forward, and there’s not a whole lot we can do… Our job is to keep the series moving forward, and go tomorrow and try to find a way to win. Then, move on to Game Three and take it from there. There’s not much else to say.”
“There is a great vibe in our locker room in terms of them trying to hold the fort down,” said Steph Curry. “We have a lot of confidence that we can still win the series, and guys step up no matter how it looks. And it’s obviously a situation where you want to think positively and optimistically that we can win games and buy me some time to get back and stretch, hopefully have another series after this and be able to be in a position where I can get back out there safely, where I’m not putting too much risk on the body if it’s not ready.”
