MINNEAPOLIS — Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry left the first half of Game 1 against the Minnesota Timberwolves with a left hamstring strain. He asked out and went straight to the locker room during a timeout. General manager Mike Dunleavy checked on him and the team quickly ruled him out for the night.
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Curry and the Warriors were in control when he went down, up 30-20 after the third of Draymond Green’s four first half 3s. They maintained a great defensive effort and a double-digit lead in the first half, holding the Timberwolves to 31 points on 0-of-15 shooting from 3. Golden State was up 44-31 at the break.
But Curry’s hamstring injury looms large over the early portion of this series and ups the pressure on the Warriors to find a way to close out a Game 1 road win, while staring at the real possibility that he will miss the next game and possibly longer.
Without Curry, Steve Kerr rearranged his rotation and placed Jonathan Kuminga in the closing lineup to end the second quarter. Green had 16 points and six rebounds at half.
The last time Curry missed a playoff game was Game 1 of the 2018 first round series against New Orleans. It was a regular-season injury that lingered into the playoffs. He returned in Game 2 off the bench and scored 28 points. It didn’t matter anyway. The Warriors had Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson in their primes. The series prospect went unchanged.
The last time a Curry injury actually hovered over the Warriors’ postseason was 2016. He slipped on sweat He injured his foot in the opening game of the first-round series against Houston. He sat Games 2 and 3 and returned in Game 4. But he slipped near halfcourt in transition, on a sweaty spot where Rockets forward Domantas Montejunas had just fallen, and suffered a Grade MCL 2 sprain in his left knee. He missed the second half of Game 4 and Game 5. He then missed the first three games of the second-round series against Portland.
He returned in Game 4, scored an NBA record 17 points in overtime — his famous “I’m Back!” game — and played the rest of the playoffs. His knee became an issue for the rest of the postseason and the dominant storyline for Golden State, which had won a record 73 games that season. The Warriors came back from a 3-1 deficit against Oklahoma City in the Western Conference Finals and then blew a 3-1 lead to Cleveland in the NBA Finals.
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Nine years later, the Warriors are back here again — their championship hopes tied to Curry’s ability to recover in time. But he’s 37 years old now, coming off a grueling seven-game series against Houston and the first five games of this West semis matchup against Minnesota are on an every-other-day schedule.
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