Stephen Curry won’t be back for the first round of the NBA playoffs, but there’s hope he does indeed have a timetable in place for the postseeason.
Curry has a Grade 2 sprained MCL and is not expected to play in Golden State’s first round matchup against the San Antonio Spurs, but it’s possible that Curry is back sometime during the next series, should the Warriors manage to take down the Spurs.
Curry is officially getting a three-week reevaluation on Saturday, but a report from ESPN’s Shams Charania indicated that the All-Star guard could come back to the Warriors lineup sometime in the Western Conference semifinals.
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Curry’s status has been up in the air since he was diagnosed with the sprain in late March. There’s been some talk that Western Conference teams feel the Warriors are beatable without Curry in the lineup, though the only team that will get that chance is dealing with their own ambiguous injury at the moment. The Warriors, of course, feel they can “beat anybody” without Curry, but his return would be a huge boost to a team trying to repeat as NBA champions.
That’s never an easy task, especially when the Houston Rockets are presumably looming in the Western Conference Finals. If the reports are accurate and Curry gets good news on Saturday, he would be back in plenty of time for that showdown.
