Stephen Curry walked to the locker room to the third quarter against the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday because he'd aggravated his shin contusion. The injury kept the Golden State Warriors superstar out of two games at the end of December, and he had to leave Saturday's game early, too.
This time, his shin hit the leg of Lakers center Roy Hibbert. He stayed in the game, but checked out about five minutes later with his team en route to a 109-88 win. In his 26 minutes, he had 17 points on 6-for-13 shooting, including 4-for-8 from deep, plus six assists, one rebound and three steals.
"It's just frustrating and annoying and any other adjective you want to throw in there," Curry told reporters, via ESPN's Ethan Sherwood Strauss. "Long-term, it's not something that I'll have to worry about. It's just playing through an injury that's there. It doesn't get worse if I play on it, unless I get kicked, and that's happened three times since I did it, so hopefully it won't keep happening again."
