Stephen Curry: Must be careful with 'tricky' hamstring injury - ESPN

MINNEAPOLIS — Stephen Curry isn't sure how long it will take him to recover from his Grade 1 left hamstring strain because this is the first time he has ever had such an injury.

Calling the situation «a gut punch,» Curry said he has to be careful and can't rush his comeback given the «tricky» nature of hamstring injuries.

«This is new, and from all that I'm learning about how quickly you can get back, there has to be a healing process,» Curry said at Warriors shootaround Thursday before Game 2. «You can't accelerate it more than what it's telling you. So it'll be one of those, after a week, really reevaluating every day to understand when it's safe just to even think about playing, let alone how much can you push it.»

Curry is out through at least Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals and will be reevaluated after that. Game 5 is eight days after Curry suffered the injury. Then there is a three-day break before Game 6, if necessary, which could give Curry a total of 12 days to recover. A Game 7, if needed, would be on May 20.

Curry said he is «a little ways away from» taking stationary jump shots. He said the rehab process right now is «a lot.»

He said there were no warning signs before he suffered the injury in the second quarter of Game 1 on Tuesday. He could be seen grabbing at his left leg and signaled to the bench to come out but remained in the game for 29 seconds before play was stopped.

«I felt great the whole game up until that point,» Curry said. «And then I made a little pivot move on defense and felt something, didn't think it was nothing or anything. I felt like I could just go get it released and be able to come back out. But with soft tissue, stuff like that, it was one of those situations I could