Nothing puts a knot in the pit of the stomach of Warriors fans like watching Stephen Curry limp back to the locker room.
That’s what Warriors fans saw — again — in the team’s home opener on Sunday night. Curry tweaked his ankle in the third quarter, tried to stretch it out and return in the fourth, but quickly aggravated it while trying to set a screen on the Clippers’ Nicholas Butum and immediately after limped back to the locker room.
Steph appears to aggravate his ankle injury and heads to the locker room pic.twitter.com/AllTixka32
— Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) October 28, 2024
Curry did not return to the game with what the team called a sprained ankle. After the Clippers 112-104 win, coach Steve Kerr said that Curry had described the sprain as “mild” and “moderate” and that an MRI done Sunday night (with the results released Monday) will tell us more.
Curry finished the night with 18 points and four made 3-pointers, but the remainder of the fourth was a reminder of what a tough go it will be for Golden State coming up without Curry, the team’s primary shot creator. The Warriors were down 10 when Curry went out, but the remaining Warriors were able to get the Clippers’ lead down to three — it’s the kind of Warriors comeback win it feels like we’ve seen 1,000 times in the last decade. Except, without Curry they could not get over the hump and lost 112-104.
The Warriors are now 2-1 on the season and host the New Orleans Pelicans — a team with its own injury issues as Trey Murphy III and Dejounte Murray are out — in back-to-back Games on Tuesday and Wednesday. After that, the Warriors head out on a five-game road trip.
