🏀 Stephen Curry out for weeks with a torn side muscle
Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors has torn a muscle along his side and is expected to sit out two weeks or more, possibly nearly a month.
The mystery
Curry was playing some of the best basketball of his career and the Warriors had won eight straight. One painful three-pointer in Houston changed all that.
The answer
Curry felt something in his right side early in Wednesday's game against the Houston Rockets. He kept playing for a few minutes, hit a 28-foot three, then shouted in pain and pointed to the bench. An MRI found a tear in an oblique muscle. The team says he will be checked again in two weeks, though ESPN's Shams Charania reported the Warriors expect an absence of nearly a month. He will miss at least seven games, starting with San Antonio. Golden State lost to Houston by seven, ending an eight-game winning run and dropping to 8-4. Curry had been averaging 27.8 points in just 26.3 minutes a night and shooting a career-best 45.7% from three. The squad is already thin, with Jimmy Butler III and Moses Moody out with knee injuries. Last season the Warriors went 13-26 without him.
Now think about this
Can a team built around one superstar still win when that star is injured?
