Steph is 38 so it might be even more worse for him.

Eh it’s an injury with a really wide range. Tons of players have strained their obliques and only missed 2-3 weeks. Even Joel Embiid came back in under a month.

They’ll see how it’s doing in 2 weeks and then make a more realistic call as to whether it’s something he’ll return soon from or if it is going to be a while (or even require surgery).

irc dame had one and tried to play through it for like years.

I think if Steph chooses this route, that would be the end of his career since he’s already old. He won’t recover as quickly as when he was in his prime.

I think Lillard’s case is a little different? His one was chronic/severe case

That’s right! I remember the Dame one. Dude wasn’t the same until the following season.

Dame’s shit was different.

Main optimistic piece is reevaluation in 2 weeks. If it was much more serious they wouldn’t be doing that

oblique tear reminds me of banchero and wagner 2 years ago

Yeah, really sapped Dame’s prime tbh and you could see him in pain almost every time he shot. I doubt Curry will be the same for the rest of his career which sucks

Just when GSW Curry at 38 was starting a renaissance.

Dame was officially described as abdominal tendinopathy. He also played on it for 4.5 seasons before getting surgery, which is ill advised, but he did it. An oblique tear is typically faster recovery unless it is bad enough to require surgery, which most don’t, but this one is bad enough a professional athlete immediately was complaining about it, so who knows.

I guess unless it’s reached the point of being a rupture.

if it was a strain they would have said “strain”, the “tear” is implying its worse than just something very small

Yeah, not sure what grade Steph’s is but Austin had a grade 2 oblique strain. He came back early after 27 days so he could play in the playoffs but the typical timeline for a grade 2 is 3-6 weeks. Sounds like Steph’s might be a grade 1

Yes. “Strain” = tear, of some degree.

It sounds more like what our rookie Cameron Carr had to start the season. He had a grade 1 oblique strain and was out for around 2 weeks. Age is not on Curry’s side here, but thankful it seems like a grade 1 judging by the timeline

I’m guessing 2

New Orleans, Sacramento, maybe Dallas? I wouldn’t be surprised if they beat Memphis or win a trap game.

Yax about to go on a generational rookie run

I think without Steph, they should consider 2 wins as a good result.

I dunno who got the most shade here. Pelicans and Kings for being written off against Curryless Warriors, or Portland not making your list at all.

??? Why are we treating @ Memphis as different than Portland or Dallas? We already beat y’all at home

Pels, mavs, grizz, sac arent exactly powerhouses. I get grizz are doin good, but they’re still a young team. I wouldnt say they legit yet

Not really. That’s 4 winnable games out of 7. Not bad.

He’s probably going to miss more time than 2 weeks tho, if they’re smart about it

I think they’ll go 0-7.

The chef cosplay in in full effect already he’s practicing the mouth guard chews

I just don’t want to see Podz Lee doing karate kicks to our calves this time, please no injuries this game

Podz does shoot efficiently but he doesn’t take a high volume, only 13 FGA. He attempted 15 last night with Curry injured, he’ll probably have to be in that 15-18 range. I’d be interested in seeing him take like 25 attempts though. He didn’t have any games last year with more than 19 attempts, whereas Curry already had 3 games with 20+ attempts this season

Podz, Yax, and Dray gonna be the second coming of Kyrie, LeBron, and Love

I was at one of those games last year. I went because I wanted to see Curry live. Sadly, I got exactly what I wanted to see. An epic Curry game. He whooped us good

Reaves played almost a whole game with a grade 2 last season.Can’t really tell anything from the way they’re reacting on the court

Based off of what I’ve seen in that game, it doesnt look like grade 2-3 type of shit

Yea, reevaluate in 2 weeks means out 3-4.

I’m thinking 2 is more likely.

It is every year no matter how strong everyone thinks the east will be.

Damn. I’ve watched like 4 Spurs games this year and completely forgot Tobias Harris both existed and was a Spur.

What a weird player. He’s been randomly excellent at everything you could ask a basketball player to do, but never at the time you need it, and certainly never all in one year.

I’ve seen versions of him where he was a one way offensive guy putting up inefficient isolation buckets. I’ve see versions of him where he deserved a token amount of all defense votes and performed as a hyper efficient specialist on offense.

I’ve seen teams loathe him because of his spacing and immaturity, and teams pay him for his spacing and maturity.

And yet he’s already kinda forgettable while still playing.

Devin has missed back to back games but I think he’s probably fine

And Vassell has missed a couple games, but hopefully he’ll be back Friday

Strawther’s the only guy who’s out at the moment, and he’s 8th/9th on the depth chart.

Everyone’s banged up though. Joker’s dealing with an elbow sprain, Murray and Johnson have lower leg issues, Gordon and Braun are both playing through calf strains, and DeRozan’s missed time with back spasms.

We just got a Reaves heel injury, we can expect him gone at minimum for 1-3 weeks. Luka just rolled his ankle and it would be good to give him like a week off esp given his offensive load. To make sure his ankle can heal

Austin??

Luka left the game yesterday. Hopeful on condition tho

Lost former all star and planned starter Ben Simmons!

Have some faith in Yax.

Additional problem is that their backup PG is also out injured.

Spurs, Pels, Mavs, Grizz, Celtics, Kings, Blazers, Clippers round out the month of November.

Should certainly beat the kings and clippers. Favored vs Pels and maybe the Mavs? But are they even? Spurs Grizzlies Celtics Blazers are all gonna be rough.

Dray is going to get thrown out as many games as possible. He has always been ass without some combination or Curry, Klay and KD.

We already know Dray is about to be “injured”, he’s not about to play this much without Steph

He will punch someone in the nuts in his next game so he can get suspended and sit out too.

Being old sucks

Buddy I “literally” said this was going to happen a couple days ago, for the exact reasons you mentioned. You’re upset that he got injured while playing so well. But I’m here to tell you that that level of play was never sustainable for him. He was carrying way too much on his shoulders. An injury was inevitable while still trying to play like a demon at 39.

Hopefully Kerr/Warriors have a better game plan for when he comes back. Because the MVP days are over. They need to play him smarter than that if they want to be serious about this season and the rest of his career.

27/3/3 doesn’t win you mvp in this era as much as the media loves Steph. Barely the best player on his team and they are the 6th seed. Not much of an MVP

It’s a common injury in a lot of sports where you twist your abs. Baseball is another sport it’s common in.

That is very interesting. So, professional golfers have this injury (relatively) quite often?

He basically got wrestled against so it makes sense.

More common for uncs

yeah, as a former wrestler who still has oblique issues show up randomly…I feel for curry. Maybe i’ll reach out to him to offer some guidance

that tracks with the way Houston defends him

There also fairly common in golfers.

Common for baseball too. Just a freak injury when it comes to basketball. Same thing with AR last year. Get kind of tangled up and somehow you just tweak it.

Every time a tennis season started I tore an oblique serving after not playing for a while. Had to play through a season with one. Not fun.

AR and Steph are both two of the biggest golfers in the league. Coincidence?

Yep, on his left. He went to the Dodgers facility for rehab too lol

Thank goodness you aren’t a whale biologist that hates whales.

Might end up as a bear biologist.

*Basically see if the Dubs are going to make the playoffs or tank for good measure

The vibes were a lot of fun too

Man I feel you now

omg sorry to hear that, I cannot imagine how bad you feel… but at least this season 76ers is good

But even blazers, tons of players injured recently, aren’t they?

where do you buy tickets that allow refunds

There’s no refund for those tickets 😭

He dropped 37 without Curry. Although that was against the Clippers.

He won’t be better, but his green light just got a whole lot greener. Him and podz about to be taking 25 shots a game lmao

They got their talking points from the Rockets sub and just repeat them ad nauseam in every thread.

Haha I mean I’m just upset I don’t get to watch Steph for the next couple weeks. They’re getting ragebaited but it’s true; if it’s not dirty, it’s just clumsy, and there’s a large history of that.

fans of a team are irritated when the team is slandered, color me fucking shocked

watch how fast you can gather half the spurs fans in the sub just by posting a clip of wemby elbowing naz reid in the throat and you might get the idea

Only thing worse than Warriors fans are the Warriors announcers. They just can’t fathom the concept that their 38 year old star with a long history of injuries got injured again

Draymond, the only dirty player in the NBA, gives every other teams carte blanche to target Steph.

It’s as bad as the Spurs fans who are still mad about Zaza using Bruce Bowen’s signature move against them.

Two things can be true at once.

They use Steph’s clean and wholesome reputation to whitewash their team’s crimes

I’ll never forget Pachulia intentionally hurting Leonard. Warriors fans still, to this day, make all kinds of excuses for it.

A red herring fallacy is an informal logical fallacy of relevance where someone introduces an irrelevant or secondary topic to divert attention away from the original issue

Too bad Draymond has never actually Inhured anyone. I’ll be the first dubs fans admit that he does wild shit on the court and gets in too many scuffles but his value is playing clean defence in clutch moments. He doesn’t swipe at specific injuries or try to maim. He’ll wrestle you to the ground, but keep you from snapping your elbow while doing it.

I bet you can’t name a single player who had to miss games because of Draymond Green.

(I can name one, but most people on this sub don’t even remember him)

Casuals don’t realize a) kawhi was injured by his teammate in that same game before zaza and decided to risk it b) bruce bowen invented the undercut by zaza

Draymond may be a dirty player but he very rarely if ever has injured an opponent

Draymond do stuff that get him punished and he never injured anyone. So, if he gets punished, that is bad for his team, not the others, that comparison makes no sense

He’s not acting that way tho. This is a moot point. Just bc a team has done shit doesn’t mean another team plays a whiny, rough style. Which the Rockets do. Because he’s correct. Ime whines nonstop and his players whine nonstop. You can be hypocritical and still be correct about another team.

The Kawhi injury was unfortunate, but it wasn’t intentional or dirty in any way.

Warrior fans are so fucking delusional

How do you know that? Because I watched a doctor analyze all of Curry’s play and he concluded it happened on the Sengun one.

Why not? Two things can be true at once. We didn’t hire him.

marcus smart is also a known hothead and has been on the rockets for like ten games

hilarious for them to act like suddenly it’s being on the rockets that has corrupted him, like no dawg that’s just who he is

What if I call out dirty play whenever I see it whether it’s a player on my team or not?

For real, Draymond is the dirtiest NBA player of the last 10ish years. Remember all those crotch kicks? To be fair a lot of warriors fans were probably elementary schoolers during that time

No he was hurt illegally holding Sengun so Draymond could roll the the rim lol

Yes. Folks crying for no reason

It seems like the injury happened earlier, when Sengun hooked his arm.

But in a larger sense, like with the playoff series the Warriors had against them two years ago, this seemed like the inevitable consequence of how the Rockets were being allowed to play by the refs. In that series, they were allowed to be extremely physical with Steph, and his ultimately injury was no surprise. But hey, the NBA got their seven-game series out of it!

The game last night felt similar. Houston clearly took a “well they can’t call everything” approach, and the refs upped that to “how about we don’t call anything?” while Steph was manhandled all over the floor.

By my count there were 4 or 5 “well that could have been a foul” moments before he walked off the court, and he didn’t shoot a single free throw.

He’s old. Maybe he gets injured anyway. But this has been Houston’s game plan against him for years and it just sucks.

That was after 300# sengun planked on his back

He was put on the floor 3 times before that, and grimaced after he was grabbed by Sengun. But yes, the shot where he finally got pulled was non-contact.

Cue clip of Amen Thompson undercutting Jimmy Butler on a dunk and taking him out of that one series.

One of the dirtiest plays I’ve ever seen and it doesn’t get talked about nearly enough for how dirty it was.

You can’t find me a clip of Draymond doing something more dirty than what Amen did.

Oh yikes.