NBA Rumor: Stephen Curry Injury
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Kerith Burke: Bazemore said Steph was dealing with a hairline fracture in his tailbone, an injury that goes back to March. Steph has been wearing a butt pad under his shorts. “He’ll never let you know how he’s feeling,” Baze said about Steph playing through aches this season.
Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Andrew Wiggins out tonight
Steph Curry is wearing a butt pad and playing quite well in it. Is this butt pad a thing that’s happened a lot and I’m just now hearing about it, or is it a pioneering thing that Steph is doing? Jeff Stotts: There have been other examples of tailbone contusions in the NBA. I was a little surprised, those five games lost are a little outside the norm. Usually those injuries don’t require a lot of time. That being said, they can be very painful. I think we probably have guys coming back wearing those little butt pads on their contusions. We just don’t hear about it. But since it’s Steph and he openly talked about it, I think it’s getting some notoriety. That’s all you can really do for a tailbone. It’s all about padding it up so it doesn’t get aggravated.
Anthony Slater: Steph Curry on his right foot/ankle issue tonight: “Hopefully it’ll be good by Sunday. It’s not as prominent as the (ankle twist) in Boston.”
Derek Bodner: #sixers afternoon injury report has the following players listed as questionable: – Ben Simmons (illness) – Dwight Howard (left knee soreness) – George Hill (right thumb) – Tobias Harris (right knee soreness) – Seth Curry (left hip flexor tightness Also: – Steph Curry (ankle)
Anthony Slater: Steph Curry on his ankle twist: “One of the usual ones I’ve had in the past…Kind of a guessing game at this point. But the fact I could continue, it’s a good sign.” Says he has “no idea” if he can play Monday, but he’s “hopeful.” Depends how it responds.
Anthony Slater: Steph Curry is getting treatment on his left ankle right now. Kerr: “My sense is it was a tweak that was painful, but he’s going to be alright.”
Stephen Curry returning on Sunday
Connor Letourneau: The Warriors are planning to play Steph Curry in Atlanta on Sunday. Team just felt he needed a couple of days to rest the bruised tailbone.
The Jump: “Curry’s tailbone is still bothering him and it’s gonna linger him for a few more weeks. It’s something to watch for down the stretch” – @Nick Friedell #NBA #NBATwitter #TheJump #DubNation pic.twitter.com/lvD4fZtjFu
Nick Friedell: What changes most for Steph because of tailbone injury? “Just dealing with pain, that’s it.” He knows it’s going to be an issue for a while and is just hopeful the pain doesn’t impact some of the decisions he makes on the floor — like standing in and taking that charge tonight.
Stephen Curry expecting to return on Monday
Golden State Warriors star guard Stephen Curry practiced fully on Sunday and will be listed as questionable for Monday’s game against the Chicago Bulls after missing the past week and a half because of a tailbone bruise. “We scrimmaged some just now, and he’s getting some extra work in, so we want to see how he responds to that,” coach Steve Kerr said after Sunday’s practice. “And then it’s a discussion with (Warriors director of sports medicine and performance) Rick (Celebrini) and the training staff. We’ll see where it all goes.”
Stephen Curry questionable for Sunday's game
Connor Letourneau: Steph Curry was a full participant in practice today. He’s questionable for tomorrow’s game against the Bulls.
Stephen Curry to miss at least three more games
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry will miss at least three more games, after an MRI showed inflammation on his tailbone, head coach Steve Kerr said Tuesday. “This is going to be a little bit longer than we thought and hoped,” Kerr said, adding Curry will be reevaluated in a week.
Stephen Curry out one more week
Stephen Curry still out for Warriors
Anthony Slater: Steph Curry remains out tonight in Memphis. Second straight missed game after that fall in Houston on his tailbone. Warriors get two days off after this before a Tuesday home game against the Sixers.
Kerith Burke: “Very doubtful” Steph plays tomorrow, per Kerr, saying it might even be irresponsible to play him in a back to back as he deals with the tailbone injury. Medical staff will make final decision.
Stephen Curry doubtful for Friday
Anthony Slater: Steph Curry is doubtful for tomorrow’s game against the Grizzlies in Memphis, per Steve Kerr. Kelly Oubre is also doubtful. Was kicked in the foot yesterday.
Golden State Warriors star guard Stephen Curry suffered a tailbone contusion at the end of the third quarter of Wednesday night’s 108-94 win against the Rockets in Houston and did not return. The injury occurred on the final play of the third quarter, after Curry missed an off-balance 3-pointer. His momentum took him off the floor and pushed him toward the risers by the Rockets’ bench. He appeared to trip on the first level of risers and was unable to break his fall.
“He says he’s going to be fine long term,” Kerr said. “It’s going to bother him, though, for definitely the next few days. No idea if he’ll play in Memphis [on Friday], but he seems to be feeling like he’ll be OK over the next week or so, but we’ll see … and please don’t take that to mean that I’m saying he’s going to be out for a week. He could be practicing [Thursday] for all I know, but we’ll give you an update as soon as we have one.”
Stephen Curry, James Wiseman set to return
Anthony Slater: Official injury tags for the Warriors tomorrow at Knicks Stephen Curry: Questionable, James Wiseman: Questionable. Kevon Looney: Questionable. All three appear to be trending toward a return.
Stephen Curry feeling better, expected to return tomorrow
Nick Friedell: Steph trying to knock down any conversation about his workload/tweaking his ankle early in Monday’s game. He smiles before question even finishes. “I feel great. I feel great.”
Kerith Burke: Today’s injury report Steph Curry: questionable (L ankle soreness) Jordan Poole: questionable (L ankle sprain)
Stephen Curry 'probable' for Friday's game
“When Steph was injured last year with his hand, we did something different,” Fraser said of the new approach. “The performance staff came up with a scientific way to get him in really good shape, using interval training. Then we applied the basketball drills.” Based on early returns, it was an experiment gone right. “Steph felt like he was in such good shape and so sharp after that method that we decided to do it this summer,” Fraser said. “And then, Brandon Payne was thrown into the mix to add his touch. So, I would say those three parties constitute the macro scale. We’re all focused on using interval training plus what he’s done in the past.”
“He’s a young 32,” Payne said with a chuckle. “He’s jumping really well, moving really well. He’s perpetually in great shape from a cardiovascular standpoint. He’s not showing any signs at all of any sort of aging. He’s moving well, he’s getting stronger. He’s as bouncy and energetic in workouts as he’s ever been.”
It remains to be seen if the second bubble will actually take place, but even if it does, it sure seems like you won’t be seeing Steph Curry play in it. ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan reported he wouldn’t have played in Orlando had the Warriors qualified, and it begs the question as to why Chicago would be any different. “I was told unequivocally by people at Golden State,” MacMullan said Thursday on the “Hoop Collective” podcast, “if Golden State came back (to play in Orlando) they weren’t gonna let Steph Curry step foot on the floor.” “The reason they were worried about Steph Curry,” MacMullan added, “was because they didn’t feel that he had played enough to come back.”
Wes Goldberg: Steve Kerr on Steph Curry’s status: “We expect him to play Thursday. He wanted to play tonight, but we wouldn’t let him just given he hadn’t done anything the last three days. This is a good day for him to get a good workout and get some rest.”
Anthony Slater: Update: Steph Curry is out tonight against the Clippers. Second straight missed game with the basic flu.
Connor Letourneau: Steve Kerr on the nerve damage in Stephen Curry’s left hand: “I think that’s maybe being overblown. … He’s out there shooting like he’s always shot. I don’t think this is going to be an issue.”
Shams Charania: Warriors make it official: Stephen Curry will return on Thursday against the Raptors.
Stephen Curry: About time!!! 😂
Stephen Curry to return Thursday
Kevin Danna, the Santa Cruz Warriors’ play-by-play announcer who attended the scrimmage, said of Curry (via NBC Bay Area), “He missed his first couple of shots as he was kind of getting his legs underneath him, but then he started going. And once he started hitting, he didn’t go back to missing much.”
Logan Murdock: Stephen Curry is officially a Santa Cruz Warrior pic.twitter.com/IoV3msQ4xI
Anthony Slater: Steve Kerr on the decision to hold off Steph Curry’s return: “He was not thrilled, but Steph is always very rational and easy to speak with. He put up a little fight, but also understood why we wanted to take extra precaution.” pic.twitter.com/8L1Vp2nHzS
Stephen Curry return postponed
Anthony Slater: Sounds like a firm decision on Steph Curry’s status for Sunday should come tomorrow. Warriors practice at home before traveling to Phoenix. Kerr says he’ll have a meeting with Curry, Myers and Celebrini.
Kerith Burke: Brandon Payne, Steph Curry’s trainer, told our @NBCSAuthentic that Steph is still working through the nerve issue. Not all the way back to where he wants it to be, but improving. Doctors said it could take up to a year.
Nick Friedell: Kerr says he will sit down with Warriors training staff, Steph Curry and GM Bob Myers after practice tomorrow and make a game plan for Curry’s return. Warriors still hopeful Curry will return Sunday — but organization hasn’t made a final decision.
Kerith Burke: Steve Kerr casted some doubt on the March 1 return date for Steph Curry, saying that’s not official yet and his preference is Steph gets more scrimmages in. Last night Steve said March 1 is “the hope.” Hope is not certainty.
Stephen Curry to make return Sunday
Is there concern it’ll never fully recover? “I’m getting used to what the new normal is,” Curry said. “It definitely feels different than the right (hand). But you try to get to the point when you’re playing basketball, you don’t think about it — whether it feels all the way same or not, it doesn’t really matter, as long as I’m not worried about the things I’m trying to do, the strength part of it and how it bounces back the next day after pushing it in contact stuff. “But to answer your question, it is going to feel different. Anybody who has had surgery knows it takes a long time to get back to true normal. Functionally speaking, where I’m not out there on the court thinking about it, that’s where I’m trying to get it to.”
Wes Goldberg: Steph Curry acknowledges he needs to adjust to lingering nerve damage in his left hand: “It definitely feels different. … I’m trying to get to, when I’m out there in the court, I’m not thinking about it.”
Anthony Slater: Steph Curry on his return target: “It’s always been March 1st.” It’s a home game against the Wizards. Remains the target.
Stephen Curry cleared for contact
Nick Friedell: Steve Kerr says Steph Curry has been cleared for contact again. He went through a scrimmage today. Warriors are hopeful Curry will return in near future. No official target date set yet by organization.
Anthony Slater: Andrew Wiggins was on Steph Curry’s team today in Curry’s first scrimmage back. Wiggins: “He’s a game-changer. Once he steps on the floor, the game changes.”
Anthony Slater: Steve Kerr on the idea of holding out a healthy Steph Curry: “No. He’s perfectly healthy. If the point is he might get hurt, what’s the point of ever playing anybody? I guess the argument is we’re not making the playoffs. So, are we not trying to entertain our fans?”
Nick Friedell: Kerr on Steph wearing red non-contact jersey in practice. “We’re calling him Tom Brady today. ‘Don’t touch Steph.’” Kerr said Curry won’t be cleared for scrimmages this week. Kerr says organization still doesn’t have specific return date yet. Next update expected in two weeks.
Nick Friedell: Kerr on Steph wearing red non-contact jersey in practice. “We’re calling him Tom Brady today. ‘Don’t touch Steph.’” Kerr said Curry won’t be cleared for scrimmages this week. Kerr says organization still doesn’t have specific return date yet. Next update expected in two weeks.
As for Curry? The Warriors plan to reevaluate him in early March after fracturing his left wrist only four games into the season. Since then, Curry has spent the last three months healing. He has spent the past month completing various shooting workouts. “Steph is coming back. That’s not even a discussion internally,” Lacob said. “He’s ready to play so he should play. By the way, we’ll try to win every game. I’m not really about, ‘Let’s lose every game so we can get the best pick.’ You try to do that, you’re messing with the basketball gods. So we don’t believe in that.”
Diamond Leung: Giannis on Steph Curry: “Let me be honest with you. The players, we kind of enjoy that he’s not playing — not enjoy that he’s hurt. We want him to be healthy, but he just makes it way, way tougher for the rest of the league.”
Anthony Slater: Steph Curry’s jumped into some 5-on-0 drills lately, ramping up his conditioning, still no contact pic.twitter.com/fyt8HpVSOX
Stephen Curry to return in early March?
Marc Stein: Stephen Curry says during the Warriors/Lakers national broadcast that “first week of March” is his target to return from the broken left hand suffered four games into the season
Stephen Curry back next month?
Anthony Slater: Steph Curry recovery update: Out another month, all 11 February games. Another re-evaluation in four weeks. Making steady progress. Team is “hopeful” for a March return. Curry clearly targeting the start of the month. He’s been going through increased intensity shooting routines.
Jay King: Steve Kerr said Steph Curry will “almost for sure” play again this season. Said he and Klay Thompson will play when they’re ready and the Warriors will try to win every game that they can.
The question is not if Stephen Curry is coming back this season, but when. And, from what I’ve been told, you might want to clear your schedule for March 1. The Warriors host the Washington Wizards that night. That’s not set in stone, of course. More like a target date. But expect a return by the face of the franchise before next season.
Curry already looks ready to play in his post-practice sessions. Judging by his shooting, his broken left hand looks healed. He is no longer wearing the brace. But he hasn’t played since Oct. 30. Saturday was his 40th game missed since the injury. By the All-Star break, Curry will have missed 51 games — the most he’s missed in a season since he missed 40 games in the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season when he severely sprained his right ankle.
Curry may not have lost his shooting touch since missing the past 35 games while rehabbing his surgically repaired fractured left hand. Still, that does not mean his return is pending. “There is a long way to go for him to heal and be ready to play in a game,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “He just started really getting onto the court shooting and moving around. He has a ways to go, but it’s good to see him out there.”
July 28, 2021 | 7:51 am EDT Update
Devin Booker: 'There's no hate towards Jrue Holiday or Khris Middleton'
And two players from the Bucks are not only also on the American team, but circumstances were such that the three had to share a private plane ride across the Pacific last weekend — a day after the Bucks’ championship parade. “The memories are there, but it’s nothing personal between us,” Booker said. “We lost and that’s it, and I’m man enough to accept that and move on. There’s no hate towards Jrue or K Mid.”
Months after LeBron James lost a Finals, he’d always say it was something he’d never get over. Good thing he never had to be Devin Booker, who barely had 10 minutes to try and put it behind him. “I’m a forward thinker and able to move onto the next thing, and be able to take my ‘L’ and move on,” Booker said Wednesday, in his first comments since the night his Phoenix Suns lost to the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, eight days ago.
Booker’s coach on Team USA, Gregg Popovich, and teammate Draymond Green (not to mention assistant coach Steve Kerr, but we digress) have been in Booker’s shoes, having lost a Finals. He said Popovich and Green discussed it with him “in short conversation.” “Talkin’ about it with Draymond, and him stressing the fact that it’s not gonna be that easy to get back to the Finals,” Booker said. “I remember us as a team saying that in the locker room after we lost — you know we’ve got to understand, it’s going to be even harder to make it to the point we were at. … But I’m excited for the experience. It was great. I am glad I got to do it, obviously ended up on the wrong side of the stick, but that’s life.”
“It’s a HUGE deal,” former NBA player Raja Bell said of the international ball in a text with CBS Sports on Tuesday. “I’ve always said that FIBA balls affected my shot and other NBA players’ shots tremendously. I HATE that ball! “It’s lighter, feels smaller, different texture,” Bell continued. “I mean, when the art of shooting is based on muscle memory, and you change all the factors except the rim size and height, it’s going to be difficult.”
In another exchange with a Western Conference scout, the conclusion was similar. “[The ball is] definitely a factor,” the scout said. “How big a factor I guess depends on the particular player. But it’s an adjustment for everyone. Some guys are going to make [the adjustment] easier than others.” And another text from an Eastern Conference scout with international playing experience: “It’s pretty different, and it takes some getting used to. It’s much softer than NBA or college basketballs.”
It should be comforting for Jalen Johnson to know he’ll be a first-round selection in Thursday night’s NBA draft. What should be more stressful for the former Nicolet High School standout is where he’ll actually be chosen. Johnson, a talented 6-foot-9 forward, has elicited a wide-range of opinions from NBA draft personnel. Said one longtime NBA personnel director of Johnson: “He is, to me, the biggest wild-card in the draft. I wouldn’t be shocked if he went in the lottery, like around 12 or so, and I wouldn’t be shocked if he fell into the 20s.’’
“Part of the evolution of African interest and passion for the game goes back to Hakeem’s entry into the game,” said Victor Williams, chief executive of NBA Africa. “Giannis is doing the same thing for today’s generation of African kids — and they do recognize him as African.” Antetokounmpo is known as “The Greek Freak” because he was born in Athens, but he grew up in a Nigerian home. His mother, Veronica, is Igbo. His late father, Charles, is from the same Yoruba tribe as Olajuwon. His last name — Adetokunbo — was Hellenized when he finally became a citizen of Greece and received his passport, one month before the Bucks drafted him 15th in 2013.
