Can Warriors hang on with Steph Curry out for at least a week?

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07-05-2025

Can Warriors hang on with Steph Curry out for at least a week? | The Big Number
Yahoo Sports contributing NBA writer Tom Haberstroh and NBA writer Dan Devine look at the impact of Steph Curry's first career hamstring injury on the Western Conference semifinals between the Golden State and Minnesota. Hear the full conversation on 'The Big Number' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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This week's big number is 0, as in, that is the number of games that Stephen Curry has missed in his 16-year career due to a hamstring injury.
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This is not just a big deal for Stephen Curry and the Warriors.
This is a big deal for the whole league right now because the Warriors are up 1-zip against the Minnesota Timberwolves, and they just have to hold serve.
The stat is the Warriors have played 1,436 games in the Steph Curry era.
And in that 1,000+ games stretch, they are a 53 win team, a win percentage of 646 with Stephen Curry in uniform.
Without him on the floor, Dan.
The Warriors fall from a 53 win team to a 32 win team.
A win percentage of 392, that my friends, is impact.
Jimmy obviously is more Batman than Buddy Hiel does, but if you have Jimmy operating as the like, I don't know, like, sort of like super Draymond as the, you know, I bring the ball up, I get us into our sets, I drive, I kick, I make sometimes Jimmy just needs to take the layup or take the floater.
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I think that's generally the way it moves more and then if you've got doing that off the offball marathoning and and stressing out the defense by constantly being in motion, that might be the best way for this all to work.
I think they still have a chance to win this series, obviously they're up 1-0, so the, the, the, the scales till a lot in your favor once you have an advantage there.
And secondly, they stole home court, they did it at Minnesota.
And then on top of that, like, as long as Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green are playing as well as they did in that game, if they can keep the Minnesota Timberwolves off the boards like they were in that game one, I think the Warriors still have a good shot here.
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The games are coming every other day, game 1, game 2, game 3, game 4, game 5.
So through 5, it's every other day, which makes it really hard to imagine Steph Curry coming back.
Game 5 is Wednesday the 14th.
Game 6, if you need it, is is Sunday the 18th.
You've got 4 days off between game 5 and game 6 of this series if it goes that way.
So if the Warriors can hold on, I think the likely or the opportunity for stuff to get back, get dramatically increases if you get to 6 and 76 would be in Golden State on the Sunday the 18th.
If you get to that point, I would imagine the odds would be significantly better.