It didn’t take long for angry Warriors fans to rewind the tape on Steph Curry’s injury.
Golden State’s great start to the season just hit a wall. Steph Curry went down with an oblique injury, and right now, nobody knows how long the Warriors are going to be without him.
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While the team waits on test results to figure out a timeline, the timing couldn’t be much worse. The Warriors are staring down a tough stretch of games on the schedule, and trying to protect their early momentum without their best player on the floor is going to test the entire roster.
Yaxel Lendeborg has stepped up, but not even he could get the Warriors over the line against the Rockets.
Footage of the play between Alperen Sengun and Stephen Curry has been circulating all over social media, and it shows exactly what went wrong.
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Even though Curry seemed to initiate the tangle with Alperen Sengun, the Rockets center ended up trapping Curry’s arm and turning it upward as they broke apart. You can clearly see Curry wince in pain right after the collision, pointing to the exact moment the oblique injury likely happened.
