{"id":708343,"date":"2026-04-11T17:51:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/708343\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:51:43","slug":"photo-shows-injury-tweak-steph-curry-suffered-during-kings-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/708343\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Shows Injury Tweak Steph Curry Suffered During Kings Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6d\">Early in the first quarter of Friday&#8217;s 124-118 loss to the Sacramento Kings, Stephen Curry had an injury scare. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6g\">After Devin Carter stole the ball from Curry, the two-time MVP started moving gingerly around the court. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">The broadcast didn&#8217;t show a good angle of what happened, but after the game, San Jose Mercury News reporter Joseph Dycus shared a photo from Jose Fajardo that showed what happened:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our Bay Area News Group photographer Jose Fajardo got a pic of the Curry injury. It looks like he rolled his ankle. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GHFy7JQPBU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/GHFy7JQPBU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joseph Dycus (@joseph_dycus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joseph_dycus\/status\/2042798710762168403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6p\">After the game, Curry said he isn&#8217;t worried about the ankle.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6s\">&#8220;As long as it\u2019s not my knee,&#8221; Curry <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kenzofuku\/status\/2042839554928026012?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. &#8220;I can deal with ankles. I\u2019ve been dealing with that forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6v\">Curry <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/2042838854340874464?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">added<\/a> that the knee felt &#8220;better than last game&#8221; when he suited up for 25 minutes against the Kings on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Curry Wants to Play More Minutes Sunday<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"71\">Curry ended up playing 15 minutes in the first half on Friday despite being affected by the ankle tweak. He went 1-of-6 from the field with just three points. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"74\">He played 12 second-half minutes, looking much better with eight points on 2-of-2 shooting. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"77\">After the game, Curry <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/2042838854340874464?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> he wants to play his &#8220;normal minutes&#8221; on Sunday against the Clippers, which should be a minimum of 32 minutes.  <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7a\">It will be interesting to see how much the Clippers play their starters. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7d\">The Clippers and Trail Blazers are currently tied for eighth in the Western Conference at 41-40, but the Blazers have the tiebreaker. As long as Portland beats Sacramento on Sunday, it will be the eighth seed. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7g\">It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if the Clippers outright rest some of their key players like Kawhi Leonard, but on the off chance the Blazers lose to the Kings, the Clips will want to beat the Warriors to get the eighth seed. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-14\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7j\">So the most likely scenario has the Clippers playing their starters in their normal rotations until about the mid-third quarter before checking the score of the other game to see if it&#8217;s worth playing them in the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-15\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7m\">If the Blazers are blowing out the Kings, then the Clippers will surely pull their important players. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-16\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7p\">Regardless of who&#8217;s out there for the Clippers, Curry needs reps against NBA competition. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-17\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7s\">After a tremendous return from a 27-game absence in which he scored 29 points in 26 minutes, Curry has just 28 points in 52 minutes over the last two games. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early in the first quarter of Friday&#8217;s 124-118 loss to the Sacramento Kings, Stephen Curry had an injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,4056,6,986,477,4055],"class_list":{"0":"post-708343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-kings","13":"tag-sacramentokings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116387347426915777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}