Golden State Warriors may rue relative health form as Curry’s injury timeline confirmed

Sitting with a 14-15 record as reigning NBA champions, one could be mistaken for thinking the Golden State Warriors have already been through a period of injury issues this season. The facts are that hasn’t been the case, and the Warriors could now come to rue their inability to capitalize on relative health to this point.

They’ll now be without their franchise superstar in Stephen Curry for at least three weeks, with the Finals MVP leaving Wednesday’s game against the Indiana Pacers after attempting a reach-in steal from an opposition drive to the rim.

Golden State Warriors’ superstar Stephen Curry has a labrum injury in his left shoulder which is likely to sideline him for 3-4 weeks.

According to The Athletics’ Shams Charania, Curry and the Warriors may have avoided a much more sinister diagnosis that could have well put a full stop on their chances of defending their title.

"“It’s not believed to be super serious because it could have been a case where a torn labrum and surgery that jeopardizes most of the remainder of the season. But in this case, I’m told surgery is not expected to be required and he’s going to be re-evaluated in about two weeks”, Charania said."

Curry now joins Andrew Wiggins on the sidelines, with the latter to miss a sixth-straight game because of an adductor strain. Golden State will now be without their two best players from last year’s NBA Finals when they face the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday, making the challenge of avoiding a third-straight loss all the more difficult.

In some good news, Anthony Slater reports that “Wiggins has been cleared to return to practice/shootarounds”. Meanwhile, Draymond Green is also questionable for the 76ers matchup with a right quad contusion.

Golden State have been relatively lucky with health so far through the season, at least until the point that Wiggins was injured early last week. Green and Klay Thompson began the season on minutes restrictions, but outside of that, the Warriors’ core players had only missed games through resting over the first quarter of the season.

It actually proved an issue to begin, with head coach Steve Kerr struggling to find right combinations due to the options at his disposal. The Warriors have lost a host of games on the road against what many would consider as lesser opposition, and they’ll come back to rue those even more now that injuries are starting to come in a bunch.

Golden State now face an uphill battle simply to hold the fort without their MVP candidate, with their already disappointing season threatening to head further south.