Steph Curry doesn’t have target return date for ‘tricky’ hamstring injury

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MINNEAPOLIS — Steph Curry attended the Warriors’ morning shootaround in Minnesota on Thursday. He rebounded for Brandin Podziemski and helped guide Buddy Hield through a shooting routine. He’s around — but probably more to lift his own spirits than his team’s.

It’s clear Curry is still wrestling with the depressing nature of his latest injury, jeopardizing one of his final, and maybe best, chances at a fifth NBA title. Two months after his 37th birthday, he is dealing with a hamstring issue for the first time in his life.

“I know how tricky hamstring injuries can be,” Curry said. “They can fool you and make you think it’s healed (when it’s not) if you don’t feel anything. That gray area will be confusing, I’m sure. But I’ll do everything in my power to get back.”

Curry is working closely with Rick Celebrini, the Warriors’ trusted medical decision maker, on the rehab process. This is Curry’s first soft tissue injury since a strained adductor in 2018. Celebrini has told him that he must rest the hamstring for a week, letting it heal, before testing it. He can’t even take stationary shots at this point.

“I’m a ways away from that,” Curry said.

Steph Curry said he doesn’t have a target return date: “No. and from all that I’m learning about how quickly you can get back, there has to be a healing process. You can’t accelerate.”

He has never had a hamstring issue in his life prior to this pic.twitter.com/YkYhnI0cEw

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) May 8, 2025

The team has already ruled Curry out of Games 2, 3 and 4. It’s clear he has ambitions to work his way back at some point in this series, but Game 5, which is next Wednesday night in Minnesota, appears to be a stretch.

There’s a three-day break before Game 6, putting it 11 days out from the injury. Warriors coach Steve Kerr softly floated that as a potential point to think about Curry’s return. But Celebrini and Curry will make the ultimate decision, and Curry didn’t want to put a target date on his return quite yet.

“No,” Curry said. “This is new, and from all that I’m learning about how quickly you can get back, there has to be a healing process. It’s just the way the body works. You can’t accelerate more than the body is telling you. It’ll be one of those after a week, really re-evaluate it every day to understand when it’s safe just to even think about playing.”

Curry’s willingness to risk a rush and aggravation of the hamstring injury depends on how many games his teammates can win while he heals.

The Warriors are up 1-0 in the series. If they can win at least one out of the next three, they wouldn’t face elimination until Game 6. If Jimmy Butler can pull off something more miraculous, leading them to a possible series win without Curry, they can be more cautious. But if the Timberwolves overwhelm them in the next three games (two of which are in San Francisco) and the Warriors face elimination in Game 5, the conversation could get more tense.

“Eventually, there will be conversations like that,” Curry said. “But I’m not anywhere close to that. I’m not rushing it. There has to be a natural healing process that happens.”

Steph Curry on the temptation to rush back early and try to play through it

“Eventually there will be conversations like that. But I’m not anywhere close to that.”

“I know how tricky hamstrings can be. They can fool you to think they’re healed (when they’re not).” pic.twitter.com/0Or78WQrgk

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) May 8, 2025

The ticking clock that lingers over this situation is torturous for Curry. It isn’t just about this particular series. It’s about his career. Curry is in his 16th season. His front office made a swing-for-the-fences deadline move for Jimmy Butler, and the Warriors ripped off a run after that brought them from the lottery fringe to the second round of the playoffs.

“When you’re 27, you feel like you’re in your prime,” Curry said. “Every opportunity I have now, you don’t want it to be wasted on an injury. I’m thankful it wasn’t worse. I’m aware and appreciative I even have a chance to come back. I’m trying to stay in that mind frame … Injuries are always hard emotionally. You know none of this is guaranteed, to be back in this environment in the playoffs.”

After powering through the second-seeded Houston Rockets, the Warriors looked great to open Game 1. Curry had 13 points in 13 minutes, and they were leading 30-20 when he left the game. That’s part of the reason he was in tears at points Tuesday night.

“It made it worse at the beginning because you fight through the last two months of the season, hard first round, you get through a Game 7,” Curry said. “The way we were playing, how I was playing individually that first half, I was starting to feel really, really good about where we were at. Then you kind’ve get gut-punched like that.”

(Photo: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images)

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