Double blow for the Warriors as Stephen Curry suffers quad injury

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Double blow for the Warriors as Stephen Curry suffers quad injury in the game against Dallas Mavericks

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January 6, 2022

Dallas Mavericks hosted league leaders Golden State Warriors, for their 1st matchup of the season – Stephen Curry suffered a quad injury and the Warriors had a tough shooting night

Stephen Curry and co. visited American Airlines Arena, on what is the most memorable day in the host Mavericks’ history. Dallas Mavericks scheduled the retirement of the Dirk Nowitzki no. 41 jersey after the game.

The Dallas crowd was already in good mood for the game and their team just gifted them, what can be a rare dominating win over the Golden State Warriors team. Dallas was on a 3-game winning streak with Doncic playing in 3rd game after the return.

Dallas Mavericks took the lead after leveling the Warriors tally of 30 points in the second quarter and maintained points difference over their opponents. At times they led by 14 points till Golden State made a push in the 3rd quarter. The score was 63-63 near the end of 3rd.

Finney Smith drained a huge 3-pointer which eventually started the never-ending chase for the Warriors. Dallas won a relatively low-scoring game with a 99-82 score. Luka Doncic scored game-high 26 points while Andrew Wiggins was the Warriors’ top scorer with 17 points.

Stephen Curry struggles and injury

Golden State Warriors average around 112 points per game and sharp-shooter Stephen Curry shared the major chunk of scoring. Curry is averaging 27.2 points this season. But lately, he is struggling with the points. Curry scored just 9 points (51st game below 10 points in his career) against Miami Heat in his previous game.

Steph Curry getting his left knee checked out by Rick Celebrini during the last timeout. He banged it pretty hard. pic.twitter.com/f9Swf9hnUs
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) January 6, 2022

Stephen Curry getting checked by trainers for the injury

Also today, he was not as energetic and sharp as he used to be for the team. Curry managed just 14 points in the game. The regular-season MVP candidate was 5 of 24 from the field and just 1-9 from 3 point range.

He even suffered a quad injury as he went down after colliding with a defender in the third quarter. Warriors called the time out and Steph was examined by the trainers. Curry did manage to finish the game but will be uncertain for the next game.

When asked about the injury, Curry said, “The way it feels right now, I’m not optimistic but we’ll see,”. The Warriors will be facing New Orleans Pelicans next before hosting the Cavs on Sunday. Klay Thompson is expected to play in Sunday’s home game.