{"id":59398,"date":"2025-05-07T07:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=59398"},"modified":"2025-05-07T07:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:57:41","slug":"steve-kerr-reveals-how-warriors-star-steph-curry-reacted-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=59398","title":{"rendered":"Steve Kerr Reveals How Warriors Star Steph Curry Reacted to Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2213431339-e1746595940988.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2213431339-e1746595940988.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2213431339-e1746595940988.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2213431339-e1746595940988.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Steve Kerr Reveals How Warriors Star Steph Curry Reacted to Injury\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors talks with Stephen Curry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry was \u201ccrushed\u201d after exiting Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday with a left hamstring strain, Steve Kerr revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Curry] is day to day. He\u2019ll get an MRI tomorrow,\u201d Kerr told reporters after the Warriors pulled off a 99-88 win without Curry in the second half. \u201cI talked to him at halftime. He\u2019s obviously crushed, but the guys picked him up and played a great game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we\u2019re all concerned about Steph, but it\u2019s part of the game. Guys get hurt. You just move on. Our guys did a good job of moving on and getting a great win 48 hours after a Game 7 road win.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Next Man Up<\/h2>\n<p>Buddy Hield took off from where he left. Hield scored 24 points on 5-of-8 shooting from 3 to lead Golden State in scoring after his playoff career-high 33 points in the Warriors\u2019 Game 7 win at Houston in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Butler added 20 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists. Draymond Green finished with 18 points, eight rebounds and six assists as the trio picked up the slack for Curry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just an amazing group of guys,\u201d Kerr said of his team. \u201cThey compete. They\u2019re together. We\u2019ve been the best defense in the league since the Jimmy [Butler] trade and that\u2019s what\u2019s keeping us afloat right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors kept the Timberwolves under 90 points on 39.5% shooting. But they did not go down without a fight.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota cut Golden State\u2019s lead to nine with 5:19 left.<\/p>\n<p>Hield responded with a 3-pointer while Butler scored on a floater to restore a double-digit lead.<\/p>\n<p>Kerr plans to give the Warriors a rest day after a grueling first-round series against the Rockets that went the distance and a quick turnaround for the second round. But there will be no rest for Kerr and his coaching staff, who will convene to devise a game plan without Curry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re game planning for [Curry] to not be available on Thursday,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know yet, but with hamstrings it\u2019s hard to imagine he\u2019d play Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Steph Curry Could Miss More Than One Game<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5350122\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2213134949-e1746592538137.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" alt=\"Steve Kerr Reveals How Warriors Star Steph Curry Reacted to Injury\" width=\"782\" height=\"438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5350122\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5350122\">Getty Stephen Curry\u2019s injury poses a serious threat to the Golden State Warriors\u2019 ability to advance deeper in the NBA Playoffs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dr. Nirav Pandya, a professor at the Orthopedic Surgery department of the University of California, San Francisco and director of sports medicine at Benioff Children\u2019s Hospital, said the minimum missed time for hamstring injuries in the NBA is six games based on a medical study he was part of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that Stephen Curry will be gone for six games,\u201d Dr. Pandya said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Evan Jeffries, an NBA and NFL injury expert and owner of the San Diego-based Evolving Motion Physical Therapy, also outlined a typical recovery timeline for hamstring strain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the worst case scenario in a playoff series,\u201d Dr. Jeffries wrote on X about Curry\u2019s hamstring strain. \u201cTypical timeline of healing is Grade I: 7-10 days and Grade II: 3-6 weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Curry\u2019s return to play will be determined by the grade of his hamstring strain, location of the strain, the number of hamstring muscles involved, cross cross-sectional area involved and the degree of swelling, according to Dr. Pandya.<\/p>\n<p>A grade 1 strain is a micro tear, grade 2 is a partial tear and grade 3 is a complete tear.<\/p>\n<p>Alder Almo is a basketball journalist covering the NBA for Heavy.com. He has more than 15 years of experience in local and international media, including broadcast, print and digital. He previously covered the Knicks for Empire Sports Media and the NBA for Off the Glass. Alder is from the Philippines and is now based in Jersey City, New Jersey. More about Alder Almo<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Warriors News<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr provided an injury update on Stephen Curry and his real-time reaction after he left the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":59400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Steve Kerr Reveals How Warriors Star Steph Curry Reacted to Injury - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=59398\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Steve Kerr Reveals How Warriors Star Steph Curry Reacted to Injury - 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