Warriors' Stephen Curry drops ominous return timeline after hamstring injury

The Golden State Warriors have a 1-0 series lead against the Minnesota Timberwolves. But, Stephen Curry is out for some time after sustaining a hamstring strain in Game 1. 

After exiting the game early, the MRI results revealed a Grade 1 hamstring strain, which will sideline him for at least a week, and possibly more. 

Now, the Warriors do have somewhat of a plan in place, but everything depends on how Curry recovers and how the injury heals. 

On Thursday, Curry was at shoot around ahead of Game 2 against Minnesota, but he gave a bit of an ominous update on his target return date, per Anthony Slater of The Athletic. 

"No, this is new," Curry said when asked if he had a target in mind. "And from all that I’m learning about how quickly you can get back, there has to be a healing process. It's just the way the body works. You can’t accelerate.”

"It'll be one of those, after a week, really re-evaluating every day to understand when it's safe just to even think about playing." 

Curry said this is his first hamstring injury in his life, so it's a tough break for the No. 7 seed Warriors, especially with how good he has been playing this postseason. 

For what it's worth, the Warriors had a 7-5 record this season without Curry in the lineup, although they lost two of the three games without Curry since the acquisition of Jimmy Butler. 

For now, everybody is in wait-and-see mode with Curry, and the earliest he could possibly be back would be a potential Game 6, although even that is a cloudy thought at this moment. 

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