It happened again, everyone: Curry rolled an ankle. With just under five minutes left in the fourth quarter and with his team trailing by nine, the most exciting player of this postseason came around a simple screen, caught the ball and came away hobbling.
Curry, as he's done so many times during his career, had rolled his ankle without so much as stepping on anyone's foot.
It was the left one again—not his surgically repaired right, but the one that he tweaked badly in Golden State's first-round series against the Denver Nuggets.
The sharpshooter hadn't been having much of a game when he did it, having hit just five of his first 16 attempts. To Curry's credit, he finished the contest, but shot just once more, missing badly. Jarrett Jack spent the final five minutes alternately taking bad shots and turning the ball over, emphasizing Curry's irreplaceable value to the Dubs offense.
If anyone can recover from an ankle sprain, we know it's Curry. But at some point, the collective toll of so many sprains, strains and rolls is going to render him incapable of playing with the reckless abandon that has made him this year's breakout star and playoff darling.
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