Stephen Curry, regardless of a little bit of an damage scare on Sunday afternoon, needs to be good to go for the Golden State Warriors’ season opener this week.
Curry went down with a proper ankle damage in the course of the staff’s open observe in San Francisco on Sunday. Warriors head coach Steve Kerr confirmed after that Curry’s knee wasn’t impacted by the incident, and that “he’s positive.”
Curry, after bringing the ball up the ground in the course of the open observe on the Chase Heart, abruptly rolled his proper ankle whereas dealing with the ball close to the highest of the important thing. Instantly, Curry stopped and pounded the ball all the way down to the courtroom, clearly pissed off.
He limped off as play stopped and walked over to the bench, briefly doubled over, after which went again to the locker room.
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Whereas the timing of the damage scare isn’t preferrred, Kerr mentioned that Curry advised him he was positive after the observe ended.
“All the time, all the time,” Kerr mentioned when requested if his coronary heart skipped a beat when Curry limped off the ground, through the s.
“He’s positive. I went and talked to him after he went downstairs, and I went into the coaching room.”
Curry averaged 26.6 factors and 4.7 assists per sport final season, his seventeenth within the league with the Warriors. Curry solely appeared in 43 video games, nonetheless, and missed an enormous chunk of the season attributable to a lingering proper knee damage. The Warriors went simply 37-45 and missed the playoffs for the second time in three seasons. Curry then signed a two-year, $116 million extension with the Warriors final month.
The Warriors will open the 2026-27 marketing campaign towards the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night time. Although it appeared briefly like it might be in danger, Curry seems to nonetheless be on monitor to start out the season as scheduled.
