Steph Curry has dealt with ankle and other leg injuries during his 11-year NBA career, so he knows how he will feel when he returns from those injuries.
But Curry has never had to deal with a broken hand.
So when the Warriors' superstar point guard was cleared to play in Thursday's game against the Toronto Raptors, everybody wondered: How would his previously broken left hand respond to contact?
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NBC Sports Bay Area's Kerith Burke spoke to Curry after the Warriors' 121-113 loss to Toronto and her first question was about how his hand felt.
"It felt fine," Curry said. "You try to do as much simulation of game-like experiences to test the hand to make sure it's ready to go and clear all those checkpoints, so, like I said earlier, I think the first three minutes, I fell right on my hand pretty hard and it was ready to take that blow and got it and kept it moving. So the best part about tonight was just I didn't think about my hand at all, and that's a good feeling coming back after four months."
Curry played 27 minutes and finished with 23 points, seven assists and seven rebounds.
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While the broken bone in his hand has healed, the nerve issue Curry has been experiencing will take a while to go away, as his trainer Brandon Payne told NBC Sports Bay Area last week.
But it's a good sign that Curry isn't worried about his hand. His next chance to test it will come on Saturday when the Warriors host the Philadelphia 76ers.