Steph Curry left the Warriors’ 117-114 win Thursday night against the Raptors after taking a hard fall late in the third quarter. He was ruled out for the game with a bruised pelvis.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr said after the game that Curry was getting an MRI but had pushed to return to the game.
“He thought he might be able to come back, and we just decided not to risk anything,” Kerr said. “Hopefully it’s not bad, but he’s getting imaging right now.”
Curry dribbled into the lane and jumped near the hoop to make a pass to the left corner, then collided with Toronto’s Jonathan Mogbo and Colin Castleton, falling awkwardly on his lower back.
Concern for the Warriors: Steph Curry just went to the locker room grabbing at his tailbone after a hard fall. Here he is discussing it with Drew Yoder and Rick Celebrini and then walking to locker room gingerly with Celebrini. pic.twitter.com/QsXRKhiMw4
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The 37-year-old superstar stayed down on the court underneath the Warriors’ basket while the play went the other way, then Toronto called timeout with 3:24 to play. The Raptors led 88-83 at the time.
A Golden State trainer came out to check on Curry, who walked to the bench and eventually to the locker room holding his lower back.
“He hit the ground hard,” longtime teammate Draymond Green said. “You could hear it. Crazy. Obviously, very scary moment for us, for him. Hopefully he’s good.”
Curry, facing focused individual defense from Toronto, had just made two layups as he tried to bring the Warriors back from a surprising deficit against the Raptors, who entered the game at 24-45. He had 17 points in 25 minutes at the time of his fall, making 6 of his 8 attempts from the field and 2 of 4 from 3-point range.
Jimmy Butler picked up the scoring – and defensive – slack once Curry left.
After scoring 24 points and dishing out 10 assists in Tuesday’s victory over Milwaukee, the veteran wing put up a 16-point, 11-rebound, 12-assist triple-double against the visiting Raptors.
It was Butler’s second triple-double of his Warriors career.
With the Warriors up by three, Butler flew in from the weak side for a big-time block on a Jamal Shead drive with 20 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter that sealed the game.
Curry’s injury also overshadowed a prolific first half by Green.
The 35-year-old power forward who recently politicked for a second Defensive Player of the Year award showed off a deadeye shooting stroke – at least for one half.
Green put in 18 of those in the first half, the most the four-time All-Star had scored in a first half since Game 7 of the 2016 Finals, when he had 22 in the first 24 minutes of a 93-89 Cavs win.
He finished the night with 21 points.
“If they’re going to sag and stand in the paint, leave me that open, I put a lot of work and time in to take those shots confidently,” Green said. “When I’m making those shots, it just makes our team that much harder to guard.”
Quinten Post scored 18, Jonathan Kuminga had 16 and Brandin Podziemski dropped in 15 points. The Warriors improved to 41-29 and remained the sixth seed in the Western Conference.
Scottie Barnes led the Raptors with 29 points, and Mogbo, a former collegiate standout at San Francisco, had five points and five rebounds in his return to the Bay Area.
Golden State will begin a six-game road trip in Atlanta on Saturday.
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