SAN FRANCISCO – Warriors guard Steph Curry is predicted to be accessible for Sunday’s common season finale in opposition to the Clippers.
“We’re planning on him playing, but he’s got to get through warmups first,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr stated.
Throughout Friday’s win in Portland, Curry went again to the locker room with 1:59 remaining within the first quarter after hitting his proper thumb on a Blazer defender’s knee on a drive.
Curry returned halfway by way of the second quarter with a wrap round his proper hand, and stated postgame that X-rays got here again unfavourable.
The 37-year-old beforehand handled a thumb harm in January.
The Warriors can clinch the No. 6 seed and keep away from the play-in event with a win. If Golden State loses, the group is at risk of falling to the No. 7 seed.
“It doesn’t feel like a game seven to me, because if we lose, we’re still alive,” Kerr stated. “It’s obviously very important, and we’ve got to approach it with the attention to detail that’s necessary to go out and play a good game, and then we’ll figure out what’s after that. But we’re not going home either way.”
Curry has additionally not too long ago been bothered by a pelvis harm sustained in a March recreation in opposition to Toronto, and has worn protecting gear since lacking two video games on the group’s ultimate lengthy highway journey of the season.
Curry has averaged 24.4 factors, 4.4 rebounds and 6.0 assists in 69 video games performed this season. Kerr famous what he noticed as a rise of allowed physicality when defenders guard Curry.
“One way I’m seeing it manifest itself on tape is that everyone’s just allowed to grab and hold Steph,” Kerr stated. “Even when he’s making a back cut I’m seeing people grab his arm.”
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