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Regardless of Steph Curry injuring his knee within the Warriors’ win over the Toronto Raptors on Friday, the NBA famous person believes it was the precise determination to play within the Golden State’s 140-88 blowout loss to the Boston Celtics on Sunday at TD Backyard.
In chatting with reporters following Sunday’s loss, Curry revealed he suffered the harm whereas getting snarled on the ground through the second quarter of Friday’s game in Toronto.
When requested if there have been any doubts if he would swimsuit up for Sunday’s game in Boston, Curry revealed he had a great feeling he’d be good to go for the Warriors’ conflict with the Celtics.
“No. We simply wished to verify it did not swell up any greater than it already did,” Curry informed reporters after Sunday’s sport. “I wakened this morning [and] it was in a great place after I tried to check it to see if I couldn’t really feel any ache after I was on the market and that is the way it went.
“So it was a great determination to play simply based mostly on the way it felt.”
Curry performed simply 16 minutes throughout Sunday’s blowout defeat — his lowest whole of the 2023-24 NBA season — however revealed the general workload nonetheless felt related because of the pregame preparation and physicality Boston’s protection offered.
“It nonetheless appears like a sport as a result of it’s a must to do your preparation stuff,” Curry defined. “Even within the 16 to 17 minutes I performed, it was bodily. You are looking for any sort of life on the market, however we do have two days off earlier than one other back-to-back, so received to reap the benefits of that relaxation.”
Curry completed the sport with a season-low 4 factors, lacking all eight of his 3-point makes an attempt in a sport that received out of hand as shortly because it started.
Even with Sunday’s brutal consequence, Golden State can maintain its head excessive after a profitable 3-1 highway journey. Now, Curry and the Warriors get to regroup for a few days earlier than squaring off with the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday at Chase Middle.
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