The Golden State Warriors’ championship hopes may be in some deep trouble.
Warriors star Steph Curry suffered a hamstring injury during Game 1 of his team’s second-round playoff series against the Minnesota Timberwolves at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minn. In the second quarter of the contest, Curry came up hobbled on a defensive possession and was seen grabbing at his left hamstring area. He tried to make it through another couple of possessions but then ultimately had to ask for a sub.
Take a look at the video clip.
Curry was then ruled out for the remainder of the game just minutes later. The Warriors announced that he had suffered a “left hamstring strain.”
The former NBA MVP Curry finished with 13 points on 5/9 shooting (including three triples) in 13 minutes of play. With Curry’s exit coming with over eight minutes still left in the second quarter, the Warriors (who were up by double digits at the time) had a lot of game remaining to try to hold off the Timberwolves.
In the second-round series, the Warriors and the Timberwolves will effectively be playing every other day (with the exception of an unusual four-day gap between Games 5 and 6 of the series, if necessary). Thus, a hamstring strain is very bad news for Curry, especially considering how much running and cutting he does to get open on every single possession. That said, the Warriors have already won shorthanded before this postseason, and now they will likely need to do so again.
