BREAKING NEWS: Stephen Curry Has A Grade 1 Hamstring Strain, OUT For Game 2

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00:00All right, guys, this is from Sham Sharania.

00:03Golden State, Stephen Curry has sustained a grade one left hamstring strain

00:07and will be ruled out for game two against Minnesota on Thursday.

00:11Sources tell ESPN it's the first strained muscle of Curry's career,

00:16so exact return timetable is unclear due to it being the first rehab of this nature.

00:23So, again, that's per Sham Sharania, Steph Curry, grade one left hamstring strain,

00:28out for game two, timetable unknown.

00:31So, I mean, again, you're going to hit WebMD, you're going to hit the AI, Grok, or whatever the AI is.

00:37Do our own research.

00:38Yeah, days, weeks, a month.

00:41That's typically the timetable you'll see for a grade one.

00:45It's very gray.

00:46And especially this being his first of said injury, you don't know.

00:50He's 37 years old.

00:51Like, these things, hell, if he was 27 years old, you still don't know.

00:54But at age 37 in the wear and tear in the minutes and miles, unclear.

01:00So we know he's going to be out game two.

01:02I would assume multiple games.

01:05I'm just going to assume multiple games.

01:08I don't know what that means.

01:09I don't know if that means two or five.

01:10When you go unclear, like, yeah, and Doc Pandya, Dr. Rob Pandya, UCSF Health, our 95-7 game, injury insider,

01:19you know, he talked about, you know, the injury going forward and how he's going to have to manage it.

01:24And this is Doc.

01:25And what do you have to say?

01:26I think the key thing when you're trying to get people back from hamstring injuries is, number one,

01:30in game, are you doing things to prevent that muscle from tightening up?

01:33So he's on the exercise bike.

01:34You're heating that area up.

01:35And then number two is you may have to change the way you're utilizing them in the game.

01:39So, you know, Curry covers so much court.

01:41All that running and constant movement is going to play stress on that hamstring.

01:44So Steve Kerr figuring out a way that Curry can get shots or how he plays

01:48so he doesn't have to have as much movement to get that shot.

01:51So these are the little nuances you can do to make sure that hamstring isn't getting stretched.

01:55But unfortunately, it's different for a center.

01:57You know, Kevon Looney, you know, has a hamstring issue.

01:58He's not as mobile and running around.

02:00So you can get him back quicker.

02:01For Curry, his game's predicated on moving around.

02:04So how can Steve Kerr change the offense and have different lineup combinations

02:08so maybe he doesn't have to run around as much

02:09and can just shoot threes like a spot-up shooter

02:11and not have to worry about creating his own shot?

02:14And that's when he does come back.

02:15And we still don't even know when that will be.

02:17We know he will be out tomorrow for game two in Minnesota.

02:21And the timetable is unclear, according to Shamshirani of ESPN,

02:25in regards to Stephen Curry's grade one, they're calling it, left hamstring streak.

02:29So let's work backwards, okay?

02:31Game seven is scheduled for Tuesday, May 20th, okay?

02:37Today is Wednesday, May 7th.

02:42You're looking at 14 days, essentially, right?

02:45In between the two.

02:47So that's two full weeks.

02:49So if it goes to game six, that would be on Sunday, all right?

02:55That's the 18th.

02:56Hold on.

02:58Warriors.

02:58I'm looking at it right here.

02:59Rockets.

03:00Yeah, I need to pull it up myself.

03:03So, okay.

03:03All right.

03:04So I'm looking at it right now.

03:05So, like, today is the 7th.

03:07They played last night the 6th.

03:08All right?

03:09So the next games are May 8th, which is Thursday.

03:13He's out.

03:15May 10th, I'm going to assume he's out.

03:20May 12th.

03:21For now, let's just say he's out.

03:23You're out three games.

03:24Let's just hypothetically.

03:26At earliest on my timetable, he'd be back for game five, Wednesday, or excuse me, game six.

03:34Game five.

03:35Game five.

03:35Wednesday, May 14th.

03:38Which would give him conceivably.

03:42It's a week from today.

03:43It's a week from today.

03:45I don't know.

03:46That's what I'm saying.

03:47Like, unclear, yeah, that's what I'm saying right now, too.

03:50So, the earliest, I think, most people, like, if we're being real, the earliest would be that Sunday, May 18th.

03:56I'm keeping it a buck.

03:57Oof.

03:57I'm keeping it a buck.

03:58I think the Warriors are going to go up, go through this series like he's not coming back to this series.

04:02I think that's how they're going to go about it.

04:04Like, sounds harsh, but that's kind of how you have to, like, do this thing.

04:08It's just bizarre, the scheduling.

04:09So, you go, you know, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, a ton of time off Sunday.

04:17What are we doing?

04:18Yeah, Sunday, May 18th.

04:19There's a four-day gap between that game five and game six.

04:22Why not spread that out over the first four or five games?

04:25You got me.

04:26Maybe they're trying to catch the momentum.

04:28I'm not sure.

04:29They're not really going up against any, you know, big other sporting events.

04:32So, now the question becomes, okay, let's say game six would be the earliest at, like, if we're just going with this, the earliest he comes back.

04:42Like, Sunday, May 18th, game six.

04:45What does it have to be for you to have faith?

04:48Like, the series at that point, it has to be the Warriors up 3-2.

04:52Warriors up 3-2 heading into that game.

04:54I do not want them to be down 3-2.

04:57And you have to rely on Steph coming back there.

04:59Like, if you're up 3-2 and he comes back and you can ease him in more, then you have another game to play with, potentially.

05:06You don't want it to go to game seven, obviously.

05:07But we've already seen that they can go on the road and win a game seven.

05:10You don't want that to be the case.

05:11But it is.

05:12If you're down 3-2 and then you're relying on Steph to come back, yeah, it would be great for the comic book stories, right?

05:19The Disney fairytale ending.

05:21Steph comes back.

05:22He's your knight in shining armor.

05:24And, you know, he comes and we tie the series and go there and we win the league.

05:27But you've got to be leading this series.

05:30And that sounds like a tall task without him for that long.

05:33So, here we go.

05:34Now we get all the experts.

05:35I love it.

05:36I love the experts.

05:37Oh, okay.

05:376-5-0 on the Boxer and Gerson text line.

05:40Work injury attorney's text line.

05:42Athletic trainer here.

05:43Grade one is the best case.

05:45I'd be surprised if it's longer than one week, especially since he was jogging in the tunnel.

05:51Interesting.

05:52Depends.

05:53The timetable's unclear because they don't know how the reaction's going to be.

05:56Again, I'm not saying it's the same exact injury, but we need to be careful being Twitter doctors

06:00when everyone was getting mad at Jonathan Kaminga for not coming back sooner than they wanted from an ankle injury.

06:05That was clearly severe, way more severe than what this hamstring injury is.

06:09But again, we don't know how the body's going to react.

06:11Everyone's saying, oh, it was a grade two.

06:13Why is it taking this long?

06:13Was it a grade three?

06:15It's 37 years old, guys.

06:17Like, I don't know.

06:18It could be six days.

06:19It could be two weeks.

06:20As you say, reckless speculation.

06:22I don't want to do that.

06:24So I would go out this series.

06:26Again, that's what Steve Kerr's going to say.

06:27Hey, when they tell me he's coming back, he's coming back.

06:29In the meantime, we're going out about our business.

06:31So now I'm telling you right now.

06:33Like, I truly believe this way.

06:34And look, in three games, you're going to laugh at me or you're going to love me.

06:39I still think they can come out of this series.

06:41I'm not saying it's easy.

06:42If Steph doesn't play one more game in this series, I think they can win this series.

06:46Can they go beyond that?

06:47Probably not.

06:48Like, I just, I, no.

06:50Like, they need him back.

06:52I do think, as of today, and I might be a prisoner of the moment, I think Jimmy and Dre

06:57and whatever combination of guys, they can find a way to win three of the next six games.

07:02I do think that's baked into this.

07:04Had you won and he came out of this yesterday, then you're feeling like, wow, we just won this game.

07:08And we stole it.

07:08Man, we're in prime position, maybe, if we can win this series, be in the Western Conference Finals.

07:13And I think a lot of fans are feeling right or wrong.

07:15And there's no way to feel like right or wrong way to feel about this.

07:17But a lot of fans are saying like, man, already with the thumb.

07:20And now he's going to be dealing with a hamstring injury throughout these playoffs.

07:24God, this, that, it's a lot stacked up to us because, you know what?

07:27We thought we had aspirations of being in the NBA Finals and winning a title.

07:31It's going to be very difficult.

07:33This is why you got Jimmy.

07:34I know.

07:35Like, and I'm not saying it's going to be easy.

07:36No one is saying it's going to be easy.

07:38But this, this is why you got Jimmy.

07:40And you know what?

07:40And like, the other part is, one thing I give Draymond, you know, everyone wants to, you

07:44know, bash him.

07:46Go out and prove why you're the Hall of Famer.

07:48Yeah.

07:48This would be one of the feather in the cap moments of his entire career to shut everyone

07:54up and do it without Curry.

07:57And talking about that injury potentially lingering throughout the playoffs before we hit fast

08:00five, here was Doc Pondia talking about just that.

08:03I think especially given his age, you know, whenever these hamstrings tear, basically

08:07what you're depending on to basically get you back quickly is there's some degree of

08:10scar tissue that's in there.

08:11We know that all those scar tissue can sometimes hold an area together, especially if you've

08:15got a lot of other muscle around it.

08:16That area is more prone to cause pain, to re-injure itself.

08:19And if you look at hamstring injuries, the two things you worry about besides getting back

08:22on the court is that there's a high rate of re-injury.

08:25We see that a lot in football and baseball players.

08:27And there's also a rate of injury to other parts of your body.

08:30Your hamstrings are so important to helping stabilize your lower legs.

08:33So it may not be a hamstring.

08:34Are you worried about an ankle or something else?

08:36So that's really where the medical staff has to make this decision of, okay, do we push

08:40it to get him back?

08:41Or are we being extra cautious so that we don't get that repeat injury or get something

08:45else?

08:46And that's where, unfortunately, what happens with, you know, pro athletes is you're looking

08:49at how the team's doing and what's the risk of potentially, can we win without him

08:53playing?

08:53Or do we have to take that risk and put him in because we're worried about how the series is

08:56going?

08:56And that's why you got Jimmy Butler, so hopefully they're going to hold down the fort, as Jimmy

09:01put it, in the meantime.

09:03And in the meantime, we're going to hit fast five.

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