What started as a bad season quickly turned into much worse for the Golden State Warriors. They lost Steph Curry to a broken hand in a loss to the Phoenix Suns on Nov. 1, they expected re-evaluate him in three months and go from there.
However, Ric Bucher of Bleacher Report dropped a bomb on Friday via Twitter.
Stephen Curry ‘unlikely’ to play the remainder of the season, per B/R’s @RicBucher pic.twitter.com/F8XnoB7yrx
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 8, 2019
Bucher reported that Curry’s hand injury was “worse than originally thought” and that we may have seen the last of him this season. According to Bucher, Curry broke his hand in two places with one being a clean break and the other being on a smaller bone, complicating the recovery process.
The Warriors responded by calling Bucher’s story “complete hogwash” and stood by their original plan of re-evaluating their star in February. They also claimed that the injury was no worse than originally expected.
Warriors are strongly refuting the report that Stephen Curry be out for the season. Source says his timeline hasn't changed for better or worse and he will be re-evaluated in February as planned.
— Logan Murdock (@loganmmurdock) November 8, 2019
Bucher later clarified his original statement by saying that while the injury is worse than originally thought, he believes Curry wouldn’t return this season because “there’s no competitive reason to.”
A clarification from my story today citing a source saying Steph Curry is likely to miss the remainder of the season: while the injury was worse than originally thought, he wouldn't play again this season because there's no competitive reason. Story is being updated.
— Ric Bucher (@RicBucher) November 8, 2019
The Warriors have struggled in Curry’s absence. They have gone 1-4 since his injury, most recently a 119-125 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night despite D’Angelo Russell’s 52 point performance. They sit at 2-7 on the season, and teams around the league certainly won’t show any sympathy for them.
