{"id":312589,"date":"2025-11-27T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312589\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:18:15","slug":"sources-warriors-curry-expected-to-miss-week-with-quad-contusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312589\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Warriors&#8217; Curry expected to miss week with quad contusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77a8546f-24bf-a333-8161-bf9f75396c49\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> anticipate <a data-player-guid=\"5dda51f1-50c9-66e1-2026-400b73f34fad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3975\/stephen-curry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Curry<\/a> will miss around a week with a quad contusion, depending on how he responds to treatment, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania and Anthony Slater.<\/p>\n<p>Curry, who left in the final minute of a 104-100 home loss to the Rockets on Wednesday night, is believed to have avoided any serious issue, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47116829\/warriors-curry-limps-bruised-quad-mri\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/r1581363_3_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I heard it was a quad, I was actually relieved,&#8221; Warriors coach Steve Kerr said postgame. &#8220;Better than an ankle or a knee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors close their current homestand with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"9461f397-7882-94c0-c18c-e89bdc9e570e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/no\/new-orleans-pelicans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> on Saturday and the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bd458c44-2d33-47eb-cebc-35d3d4ac595c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Curry came up limping after a series of fourth-quarter collisions. He attempted to take a charge on Rockets guard <a data-player-guid=\"d46a44b0-75e5-3475-a977-c64be5aaec40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4684740\/amen-thompson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amen Thompson<\/a> with 3:24 left and was bulled over with an elbow. After review, Curry was called for a blocking foul.<\/p>\n<p>Two possessions later, Curry drove into the lane for his own crashing layup attempt and was called for a charge. Kerr challenged the call, and it wasn&#8217;t overturned. In the aftermath, Curry moved around gingerly the next couple of minutes in obvious pain.<\/p>\n<p>During a timeout with 35.2 seconds left and the Warriors down five, Curry had a conversation with Rick Celebrini, the team&#8217;s lead medical decision-maker, who waved to the bench that Curry was done for the night. The two then departed to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Curry&#8217;s injury comes at a shaky time for the Warriors. Wednesday night&#8217;s loss dropped them to 10-10 through 20 games after a 4-1 start. In the aftermath, both Jimmy Butler and <a data-player-guid=\"de360720-e416-25f2-8a6b-b5ff82616cb1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6589\/draymond-green\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Draymond Green<\/a> were critical of the team&#8217;s recent defensive effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Warriors anticipate Stephen Curry will miss around a week with a quad contusion, depending on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-312589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}