Los Angeles (AFP)
Golden State star Stephen Curry has been operated on with his left hand broken and will be out of action for at least three months, his Warriors club said on Friday.
The double MVP (2015, 2016) "has undergone surgery at the second metacarp (index) of the left hand at Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles," the club's statement said. He was fractured Wednesday during the regular season game lost to Phoenix (121-110), when the pivot of the Suns, Aron Baynes, had crashed all over his weight on their fall on the floor.
"Curry should be fully recovered within three months, at which time its unavailability will be re-evaluated," the statement added.
The leader of the Warriors will not back the floors before February at the earliest. It will then remain about two months of competition in the regular season before play-offs whose accession is now a mountain for the team coached by Steve Kerr, finalist of the last five championships and three-time winners (2015, 2017, 2018).
The absence of Curry is added to the even longer one of the other "splash brother", Klay Thompson, who is treating him a rupture of the cruciate ligaments of the left knee, and at the beginning in Brooklyn of Kevin Durant, which formed the last piece of the "Big 3" of the "Dubs".
After only four games, Golden State, which already has three defeats, sees a season that looks very painful.
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