Stephen Curry Injury Update: Warriors plays 5 against Timberwolves for game 5, while Golden State excludes

Stephen Curry will miss game 5 of the second round between the Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves with the Simstring strain, which has been keeping him away since game 1, the team said on Tuesday. This means that Golden State, who looks back in series 3: 1, is equipped with the best player on Wednesday without her best player.

Curry's injury came in the first half of the game 1. He had played quite well and scored 13 quick points, and he helped Golden State to build a sufficiently large lead to surprisingly steal game 1 on the street. However, the series has been all timberwolves since then. Without Curry, the warriors were simply unable to create a consistent crime.

Jimmy Butler had an up-and-down series, and even with the surprising articles by Jonathan Kuminga, the Warriors did not shoot enough without a curry to threaten Minnesota's defense.

When Curry was initially injured, the Warriors said that he would be rated in a week. The typical timeline for a class 1 thigh tribe is usually a week or two, and the athletics reported Curry made it “a pretty exhausting training” Saturday before game 3:

According to a team source, Curry has not pushed it for full speed. He has not yet burst or cut or tested that he has left the armpit in a way that will provide him and Rick Celebrini – the leading medical decision -maker of the team – the true information that you need, whether the armpit is healed enough to return in this series. But he went through a routine at medium speed and ran with the stationary bike. This was a remarkable progress for Curry in his race against time.

Curry's status for a hypothetical game 6 is currently uncertain. The Warriors would have to survive game 5 on Wednesday to even have a chance to bring curry back, but if you can do that, you should only play on Sunday. Curry would give that a few more days to recover and return to the series.

In a single game everything can happen, but so that Golden State wins plausibly three times in a row, Curry almost has to be back in the last two. Golden State was exceeded without him all the series, so that they are exposed to game 5 in front of a hard fight after it has been excluded.