SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry finally received the medical green light to compete in a five-on-five scrimmage Tuesday afternoon, the latest and largest step toward a potential return for his persistent right knee injury.<\/p>\n
Curry will miss his 26th consecutive game on Wednesday night against the San Antonio Spurs and Warriors coach Steve Kerr called him \u201cdoubtful\u201d for Thursday night\u2019s home game against the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n
\u201cGotta see how he responds to the scrimmage and we\u2019ll take it from there,\u201d Kerr said.<\/p>\n
Curry first felt pain and swelling in his right knee after a workout in Minneapolis on Jan. 24. After playing through it a few games, Curry left the Warriors\u2019 home loss to the Detroit Pistons on Jan. 30 in the third quarter and hasn\u2019t been on the floor since.<\/p>\n
There was initial optimism he would be able to return directly after the All-Star break, but Curry\u2019s knee didn\u2019t respond well to on-court work during All-Star weekend in Los Angeles and Curry told the medical staff he wasn\u2019t ready for live work in the team\u2019s first practice back.<\/p>\n
Rick Celebrini, the franchise\u2019s lead medical decision maker, has maintained caution in the weeks since, holding off Curry from getting in contact work in team settings, limiting his training sessions to the weight room and individual training.<\/p>\n
Curry tried to get the green light last week for a scrimmage, but Celebrini held off until Tuesday morning, finally clearing Curry to get in a five-on-five setting against other young players and coaches.<\/p>\n
\u201cTalking to Rick, it is scrimmage today and then see how he feels tomorrow,\u201d Kerr said.<\/p>\n
Third-year forward Gui Santos said Curry looked sharp in practice and, after speaking with reporters, he planned to go watch Curry\u2019s scrimmage. Kerr said the gym was \u201cbouncier\u201d and everyone\u2019s \u201cspirits were lifted\u201d with Curry\u2019s on-court presence.<\/p>\n
After this back-to-back, the Warriors have two days off before facing the Houston Rockets on Sunday night in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
The Warriors are currently 36-39, having lost 16 of their last 25 games without Curry. They\u2019re in the 10th seed in the Western Conference, stuck in the bottom side of the play-in bracket.<\/p>\n
Their internal hope is to get Curry back in time to give him a \u201crunway\u201d of games in advance of the play-in week, needing him to win two elimination games to push into the playoffs as the eighth seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry finally received the medical green light to compete in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,77896,459,82,131697],"class_list":["post-573601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golden-state-warriors-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-9","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-stephen-curry-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-338365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}