Fresh off their second consecutive blowout win to open up the 2018 NBA Playoffs, the defending champion Golden State Warriors seem to be in good spirits. They head to San Antonio for Game 3 on Thursday with a 2-0 series lead over the Spurs. At this point, the only question here is whether the series will head back to Oakland for a Game 5.
Looking down the road a tad, Golden State is still without two-time MVP Stephen Curry. The guard has been out for the past three-plus weeks after suffering a sprained MCL in a win over Atlanta back in March. Originally, the timeline for Curry’s return coincided with the second round of the playoffs.
Now, we’re not entirely too sure when the two-time champ will return to the court. Just ask Warriors general manager Bob Myers, who had this to stay on 95.7 The Game in the Bay Area on Tuesday.
“He’s (Curry) coming along,” Myers said. “He was out there shooting today a little bit. Shooting doesn’t mean you’re shooting full speed. He was doing some things. “I still don’t know exactly when he would return but right now he’s just focusing on getting better.”
Myers did note that Curry is progressing while also saying that he is not yet at full speed in his rehab.
Suggestions from Oakland seem to be that Curry is rehabbing at a quicker clip than most anticipated. Originally a six-week injury, there’s every reason to believe he’ll be back on the court before that timeline reaches its peak. Even then, we simply have no idea when a return might happen. Curry will be evaluated again by the Warriors’ medical team in a week. At that point, we’ll have a better understanding of where he stands.
We can expect Golden State to play it close to the vest with Curry. The team has a 2-0 series lead against San Antonio in the first round of the playoffs. It’s not going to rush Curry back and duplicate what we saw from him during the 2015-16 NBA Playoffs when the star guard was obviously nowhere near 100 percent.