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00:00All right, guys, this is from Sham Sharania.
00:03Golden State, Stephen Curry has sustained a grade one left hamstring strain
00:07and will be ruled out for game two against Minnesota on Thursday.
00:11Sources tell ESPN it's the first strained muscle of Curry's career,
00:16so exact return timetable is unclear due to it being the first rehab of this nature.
00:23So, again, that's per Sham Sharania, Steph Curry, grade one left hamstring strain,
00:28out for game two, timetable unknown.
00:31So, I mean, again, you're going to hit WebMD, you're going to hit the AI, Grok, or whatever the AI is.
00:37Do our own research.
00:38Yeah, days, weeks, a month.
00:41That's typically the timetable you'll see for a grade one.
00:45It's very gray.
00:46And especially this being his first of said injury, you don't know.
00:50He's 37 years old.
00:51Like, these things, hell, if he was 27 years old, you still don't know.
00:54But at age 37 in the wear and tear in the minutes and miles, unclear.
01:00So we know he's going to be out game two.
01:02I would assume multiple games.
01:05I'm just going to assume multiple games.
01:08I don't know what that means.
01:09I don't know if that means two or five.
01:10When you go unclear, like, yeah, and Doc Pandya, Dr. Rob Pandya, UCSF Health, our 95-7 game, injury insider,
01:19you know, he talked about, you know, the injury going forward and how he's going to have to manage it.
01:24And this is Doc.
01:25And what do you have to say?
01:26I think the key thing when you're trying to get people back from hamstring injuries is, number one,
01:30in game, are you doing things to prevent that muscle from tightening up?
01:33So he's on the exercise bike.
01:34You're heating that area up.
01:35And then number two is you may have to change the way you're utilizing them in the game.
01:39So, you know, Curry covers so much court.
01:41All that running and constant movement is going to play stress on that hamstring.
01:44So Steve Kerr figuring out a way that Curry can get shots or how he plays
01:48so he doesn't have to have as much movement to get that shot.
01:51So these are the little nuances you can do to make sure that hamstring isn't getting stretched.
01:55But unfortunately, it's different for a center.
01:57You know, Kevon Looney, you know, has a hamstring issue.
01:58He's not as mobile and running around.
02:00So you can get him back quicker.
02:01For Curry, his game's predicated on moving around.
02:04So how can Steve Kerr change the offense and have different lineup combinations
02:08so maybe he doesn't have to run around as much
02:09and can just shoot threes like a spot-up shooter
02:11and not have to worry about creating his own shot?
02:14And that's when he does come back.
02:15And we still don't even know when that will be.
02:17We know he will be out tomorrow for game two in Minnesota.
02:21And the timetable is unclear, according to Shamshirani of ESPN,
02:25in regards to Stephen Curry's grade one, they're calling it, left hamstring streak.
02:29So let's work backwards, okay?
02:31Game seven is scheduled for Tuesday, May 20th, okay?
02:37Today is Wednesday, May 7th.
02:42You're looking at 14 days, essentially, right?
02:45In between the two.
02:47So that's two full weeks.
02:49So if it goes to game six, that would be on Sunday, all right?
02:55That's the 18th.
02:56Hold on.
02:58Warriors.
02:58I'm looking at it right here.
02:59Rockets.
03:00Yeah, I need to pull it up myself.
03:03So, okay.
03:03All right.
03:04So I'm looking at it right now.
03:05So, like, today is the 7th.
03:07They played last night the 6th.
03:08All right?
03:09So the next games are May 8th, which is Thursday.
03:13He's out.
03:15May 10th, I'm going to assume he's out.
03:20May 12th.
03:21For now, let's just say he's out.
03:23You're out three games.
03:24Let's just hypothetically.
03:26At earliest on my timetable, he'd be back for game five, Wednesday, or excuse me, game six.
03:34Game five.
03:35Game five.
03:35Wednesday, May 14th.
03:38Which would give him conceivably.
03:42It's a week from today.
03:43It's a week from today.
03:45I don't know.
03:46That's what I'm saying.
03:47Like, unclear, yeah, that's what I'm saying right now, too.
03:50So, the earliest, I think, most people, like, if we're being real, the earliest would be that Sunday, May 18th.
03:56I'm keeping it a buck.
03:57Oof.
03:57I'm keeping it a buck.
03:58I think the Warriors are going to go up, go through this series like he's not coming back to this series.
04:02I think that's how they're going to go about it.
04:04Like, sounds harsh, but that's kind of how you have to, like, do this thing.
04:08It's just bizarre, the scheduling.
04:09So, you go, you know, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, a ton of time off Sunday.
04:17What are we doing?
04:18Yeah, Sunday, May 18th.
04:19There's a four-day gap between that game five and game six.
04:22Why not spread that out over the first four or five games?
04:25You got me.
04:26Maybe they're trying to catch the momentum.
04:28I'm not sure.
04:29They're not really going up against any, you know, big other sporting events.
04:32So, now the question becomes, okay, let's say game six would be the earliest at, like, if we're just going with this, the earliest he comes back.
04:42Like, Sunday, May 18th, game six.
04:45What does it have to be for you to have faith?
04:48Like, the series at that point, it has to be the Warriors up 3-2.
04:52Warriors up 3-2 heading into that game.
04:54I do not want them to be down 3-2.
04:57And you have to rely on Steph coming back there.
04:59Like, if you're up 3-2 and he comes back and you can ease him in more, then you have another game to play with, potentially.
05:06You don't want it to go to game seven, obviously.
05:07But we've already seen that they can go on the road and win a game seven.
05:10You don't want that to be the case.
05:11But it is.
05:12If you're down 3-2 and then you're relying on Steph to come back, yeah, it would be great for the comic book stories, right?
05:19The Disney fairytale ending.
05:21Steph comes back.
05:22He's your knight in shining armor.
05:24And, you know, he comes and we tie the series and go there and we win the league.
05:27But you've got to be leading this series.
05:30And that sounds like a tall task without him for that long.
05:33So, here we go.
05:34Now we get all the experts.
05:35I love it.
05:36I love the experts.
05:37Oh, okay.
05:376-5-0 on the Boxer and Gerson text line.
05:40Work injury attorney's text line.
05:42Athletic trainer here.
05:43Grade one is the best case.
05:45I'd be surprised if it's longer than one week, especially since he was jogging in the tunnel.
05:51Interesting.
05:52Depends.
05:53The timetable's unclear because they don't know how the reaction's going to be.
05:56Again, I'm not saying it's the same exact injury, but we need to be careful being Twitter doctors
06:00when everyone was getting mad at Jonathan Kaminga for not coming back sooner than they wanted from an ankle injury.
06:05That was clearly severe, way more severe than what this hamstring injury is.
06:09But again, we don't know how the body's going to react.
06:11Everyone's saying, oh, it was a grade two.
06:13Why is it taking this long?
06:13Was it a grade three?
06:15It's 37 years old, guys.
06:17Like, I don't know.
06:18It could be six days.
06:19It could be two weeks.
06:20As you say, reckless speculation.
06:22I don't want to do that.
06:24So I would go out this series.
06:26Again, that's what Steve Kerr's going to say.
06:27Hey, when they tell me he's coming back, he's coming back.
06:29In the meantime, we're going out about our business.
06:31So now I'm telling you right now.
06:33Like, I truly believe this way.
06:34And look, in three games, you're going to laugh at me or you're going to love me.
06:39I still think they can come out of this series.
06:41I'm not saying it's easy.
06:42If Steph doesn't play one more game in this series, I think they can win this series.
06:46Can they go beyond that?
06:47Probably not.
06:48Like, I just, I, no.
06:50Like, they need him back.
06:52I do think, as of today, and I might be a prisoner of the moment, I think Jimmy and Dre
06:57and whatever combination of guys, they can find a way to win three of the next six games.
07:02I do think that's baked into this.
07:04Had you won and he came out of this yesterday, then you're feeling like, wow, we just won this game.
07:08And we stole it.
07:08Man, we're in prime position, maybe, if we can win this series, be in the Western Conference Finals.
07:13And I think a lot of fans are feeling right or wrong.
07:15And there's no way to feel like right or wrong way to feel about this.
07:17But a lot of fans are saying like, man, already with the thumb.
07:20And now he's going to be dealing with a hamstring injury throughout these playoffs.
07:24God, this, that, it's a lot stacked up to us because, you know what?
07:27We thought we had aspirations of being in the NBA Finals and winning a title.
07:31It's going to be very difficult.
07:33This is why you got Jimmy.
07:34I know.
07:35Like, and I'm not saying it's going to be easy.
07:36No one is saying it's going to be easy.
07:38But this, this is why you got Jimmy.
07:40And you know what?
07:40And like, the other part is, one thing I give Draymond, you know, everyone wants to, you
07:44know, bash him.
07:46Go out and prove why you're the Hall of Famer.
07:48Yeah.
07:48This would be one of the feather in the cap moments of his entire career to shut everyone
07:54up and do it without Curry.
07:57And talking about that injury potentially lingering throughout the playoffs before we hit fast
08:00five, here was Doc Pondia talking about just that.
08:03I think especially given his age, you know, whenever these hamstrings tear, basically
08:07what you're depending on to basically get you back quickly is there's some degree of
08:10scar tissue that's in there.
08:11We know that all those scar tissue can sometimes hold an area together, especially if you've
08:15got a lot of other muscle around it.
08:16That area is more prone to cause pain, to re-injure itself.
08:19And if you look at hamstring injuries, the two things you worry about besides getting back
08:22on the court is that there's a high rate of re-injury.
08:25We see that a lot in football and baseball players.
08:27And there's also a rate of injury to other parts of your body.
08:30Your hamstrings are so important to helping stabilize your lower legs.
08:33So it may not be a hamstring.
08:34Are you worried about an ankle or something else?
08:36So that's really where the medical staff has to make this decision of, okay, do we push
08:40it to get him back?
08:41Or are we being extra cautious so that we don't get that repeat injury or get something
08:45else?
08:46And that's where, unfortunately, what happens with, you know, pro athletes is you're looking
08:49at how the team's doing and what's the risk of potentially, can we win without him
08:53playing?
08:53Or do we have to take that risk and put him in because we're worried about how the series is
08:56going?
08:56And that's why you got Jimmy Butler, so hopefully they're going to hold down the fort, as Jimmy
09:01put it, in the meantime.
09:03And in the meantime, we're going to hit fast five.