Stephen Curry has an oblique abdominal tear, the Golden State Warriors announced on Thursday, and he will be re-evaluated in two weeks. The team said an MRI taken Wednesday night confirmed the tear, in a statement posted to its X account and carried by The Associated Press via NBA.com and Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints.
Curry left the Warriors’ 115-108 loss at the Houston Rockets with 6:25 remaining in the first quarter, after grabbing at his right side and signaling for a substitution. The team’s in-game designation was right abdominal soreness, as covered in SES’s report on Curry being ruled out in Houston. He left the arena during the second half for imaging, per ClutchPoints. “Concern is high,” Steve Kerr said after the game, before the MRI result was known.
Thursday’s announcement is the diagnosis. The Warriors have given no return date: the two-week figure is when the team says Curry will be re-evaluated, not when he will play, and the Warriors have not said anything about treatment or whether the re-evaluation could extend the absence. Estimates circulating of how many games he will miss are outlets’ arithmetic from the schedule, and the team has not confirmed any of them.
The loss in Houston ended an eight-game Warriors winning streak, and Golden State was already without Jimmy Butler III, Moses Moody, Gary Payton II, Kristaps Porzingis and Brandon Williams for that game. The next game is against the San Antonio Spurs, and Curry’s status for it has not been formally listed yet. Designation as of the team’s Nov. 12 announcement.
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