What does Steph Curry’s right ankle injury mean for the Warriors? | The Hoop Collective

What does Steph Curry’s right ankle injury mean for the Warriors? | The Hoop Collective

The big news unfortunately for this game for the Warriors is Steph Curry sprained his ankle in the fourth quarter um Curry wears Moon boots under under those shoes um to protect his ankles I’ll never forget the first time I saw you know you see the ankle protectors

Above but you I don’t even know how he gets that thing into those shoes it he should be wearing like LeBron style shoes you know LeBron wears these he doesn’t so much anymore but in the middle of his career he used to wear these clad Hoppers I don’t know how

Steph gets those things into the shoe because the shoe doesn’t look that big he’s got a lot of protection on his angle he’s like he’s like those offensive linemen who all every offensive lineman wears knee braces on both knees to try to knock down the number of knee injuries that they have

Because they’re constantly getting fallen into Steph every single day of his life for a decade now has taken steps to protect his ankles that said he did turn it he can’t do anything about an ankle turn in the NBA it happens um The Warriors are in a fight to try to

Climb out of the 910 and I really liked their chances of doing that um because their schedule was most favorable amongst all those teams but you can’t account for injuries and now I don’t know if Steph’s going to miss some time but to lose step and to lose a game to a

To a sub 500 team at home that you’re expecting to win not the best night for the for the Warriors yeah plus the Mavs won to get to give him just a little bit of breathing room and the Kings won um yeah the kings are now uh in seven seven

And a half games back of of first Mavs eighth nine games back and then the Warriors and Lakers are both 10 and a half games back so tied for ninth uh the Mavs and warriors do have three games left against each other right um one of those was the game that was

Postpone because of uh dey’s death um but they have three games left against each other and needs to say those are going to be huge uh whatever injury news that comes out on Steph is going to be huge uh boy the Mavericks they got a win they desperately needed tonight because

Things had not been going well um you know it’s it’s crazy Luke’s got four straight 35o triple doubles never been done in NBA history and they just snapped a three- game losing streak in the fourth one it’s insane but they got nice comeback win right weren’t they behind

In that game yeah and they’d been they still are the worst defensive team in the league since the All-Star break statistically um they made some lineup changes uh they they put Daniel Gafford in the starting lineup bringing Derek Lively Off the Bench uh and then also

Drik Jones Jr for Josh green and they proceeded to give up 29 Points in the first seven minutes and fall down by 15 now from that point on not today with faint praise but they did play by far their best defense since the All-Star break they held the heat 225 or under

And each of the last three quarters and then you know Luca just did Luca stuff and Lively came in and played really well in the fourth quarter and helped him close Dante exom was huge closing he’s been a guy who missed most of two months and is coming back

Anyways it it’s going to be I think from 7 to 10 but I think really Mavs Lakers Warriors how that’s going to how that’s going to end up playing out it’s going to be awfully interesting the Mavericks do have the tiebreaker over the uh the Lakers well look I just I looked I

Looked up the projections just now just to see where they’re at because we’re talking about how the thin all the margins are on these things the Thunder and wolves are both projected to win 56 games the nuggets are projected to win 55 games the kings are projected to win

46 seven and be sixth the MAV Suns and the Mavs and suns are projected to win 46th 46 and be tied for seventh and eighth the Warriors are at 45 in ninth and the Lakers are at 44 in 10th and I can tell you every day as there’s a

Weird game like the Bulls beating the Warriors that shifts by a game one way or the other every day up and down the standings and that’s very kind of thing we’re looking at for the next six weeks the Spurs had the ball with the chance

To take the last shot end up losing in regulation in Sacramento so if Sacramento wins if Sacramento loses that game they’re right now protected I think to finish ninth instead they’re protected to finish sixth that’s that’s what we’re talking about and that could be how close the margins are six weeks

From now with how this thing plays out well and the other thing is we we’ve talked about step’s ankle and you know they haven’t said anything official but it sounded like the guys in that team are anticipating that he’ll be out for for a little bit hopefully not long but

We’ll see it was a pretty rough limp going off um and then I don’t know man LeBron limped off I I I LeBron’s obviously dealing with an ankle thing I think that thing might flare up when they’re down double figures around three minutes left I think there might be some

Of that going on um but he’s a guy in his 21st year who’s who’s managing things uh the Mavericks after having all kinds of injury issues throughout the course of the season are the healthiest of that of that Bunch who’s going to be most sore on Friday morning which is now

Is it ant or is it Steph C oh staff a a A’s 22 years old you said he bounces back he during this game he twice went to the locker room to get treatment for injuries yes and just bounced back out yeah to be clear twice went to the

Locker room and came back out and played almost within three minutes he turned his ankle on the first play of the game yeah in our group chat um bontemps kept saying or maybe it was you McMahon it was both of us we both had like hey

Ant just left I don’t remember what the second one was I just saw him getting finally finally was declared We’re Not Gonna update each other on Ant leaving the floor unless the the Wolves put out a report our buddy Chris H from the Star tribun I was texting with him he goes

Man this is happening at least once a week and there’s been games this year where they have said he’s done for the night and he’s come back and played so you know what a what a magnetic game what a Magnetic Personality um listen anytime he anytime he shows up he might

Be a little bit tardy but he is fun to watch sure is he’s got a newborn I’m sure the six game Road Trip is difficult but he’ll sleep he’ll sleep he will he will sleep and I with the Steph thing like in towns it it is just crazy seemed

Like for most of the year we didn’t really have that much injury stuff to deal with and over the last three weeks or or so man it has just been a brutal run of injuries where you know Steph and towns and you know LeBron’s been dealing

With this ankle thing for a while and you got all these different guys in the west and then the East I was going to say in the East Cavs are down three starters the Knicks are down four the Sixers are down four like all Chris Middleton hasn’t played in a month like

All these teams are just all dealing with massive injury crises all over the place which is why it was so great to see the nuggets and Celtics play with full line th all Right

What does Steph Curry’s right ankle injury mean for the Warriors? | The Hoop Collective
Brian Windhorst, Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon react to Stephen Curry suffering a right ankle injury against the Chicago Bulls last night.
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