{"id":16944,"date":"2023-03-03T05:53:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/03\/warriors-stephen-curry-plans-to-return-sunday-vs-lakers\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T05:53:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:53:42","slug":"warriors-stephen-curry-plans-to-return-sunday-vs-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/03\/warriors-stephen-curry-plans-to-return-sunday-vs-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors&#8217; Stephen Curry plans to return Sunday vs. Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sources inform Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/1631499295341047808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter link<\/a>) that Warriors<span>\u00a0<\/span>All-Star point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/curryst01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-02_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Curry<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>is planning to come back from his leg injury Sunday, when the Lakers host Golden State this Sunday. Haynes cautions that a setback could impede this tentative return timeline.<\/p>\n<p>Curry, 34, has missed the Warriors\u2019 last 10 games with a lower left leg injury. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2023\/02\/stephen-curry-will-be-out-several-weeks-with-leg-injury.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suffered<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>a lower left leg contusion and partially tore his superior tibiofibular ligaments and interosseous membrane during a 119-113 Warriors victory over the Mavericks on February 4.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-30 Warriors have gone 5-4 through their nine completed games since Curry\u2019s injury. The 10th, a nationally televised TNT battle against the Clippers, is currently underway as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/35771426\/warriors-stephen-curry-leg-return-action-sunday-lakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kendra Andrews of ESPN<\/a> reports that Curry has participated in team scrimmages Wednesday and Thursday as he gears up for his comeback. Per head coach<span>\u00a0<\/span>Steve Kerr, however, Curry will not suit up for an 11th straight contest, Friday night against the Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>Across his healthy 38 games, the reigning NBA Finals MVP has been his typically superlative self, averaging 29.4 PPG on .495\/.427\/.922 shooting splits. He\u2019s also contributing 6.4 APG, 5.3 RPG, and 1.0 SPG in 34.6 MPG.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\tjs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=125075807517358\";\n\t\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/warriors_stephen_curry_plans_to_return_sunday_vs_lakers\/s1_14822_38533117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources inform Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report (Twitter link) that Warriors\u00a0All-Star point guard Stephen Curry\u00a0is planning to come back from his leg injury Sunday, when the Lakers host Golden State this Sunday. Haynes cautions that a setback could impede this tentative return timeline. Curry, 34, has missed the Warriors\u2019 last 10 games with a lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}