Stephen Curry has been ruled out for the rest of the Golden State Warriors’ game at the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night with right abdominal soreness, the team’s designation as reported by Dalton Johnson and Angelina Martin of NBC Sports Bay Area.
Curry left in the first quarter. He made a 3-pointer, winced and held his right side as he backpedaled, then went to the locker room after speaking with Steve Kerr, Kristie Rieken of The Associated Press reported. NBC Sports Bay Area noted he had been grabbing at his side after several hits before a collision near the rim with 6:25 left in the period, and the Warriors ruled him out near the start of the second quarter. He finished with three points and a turnover in about six minutes, per Ryan Young of Yahoo Sports. Houston led 35-20 after the first quarter.
Curry came in averaging 30.6 points per game, second in the NBA, and had been the Warriors’ leading scorer in six of their last eight games, per the AP. Golden State entered the night 8-3 on an eight-game winning streak after an 0-3 start, already without Jimmy Butler III, Moses Moody, Gary Payton II, Kristaps Porzingis and Brandon Williams, as covered in SES’s report on Will Richard being upgraded to available for this game.
The Warriors have said nothing beyond the in-game designation. No imaging, no further evaluation and no status for the next game have been reported, and the AP story carries no statement from the team. Johnson wrote that it looked like the oblique area, which is a reporter’s observation and not a diagnosis. Designation as of the Nov. 11 game in Houston.
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