Shams Charania Announces Steph Curry Injury Update After Missed 18 Games

ESPN's Shams Charania reported on the development and laid out where things stand.

Curry returned to the floor for an individual workout in Boston on Tuesday, running, cutting, and taking some light contact. More importantly, the swelling that had been a persistent issue serious enough to require a PRP injection weeks ago hasn't come back. That is the detail that matters most.

"There is cautious optimism that Stephen Curry will return to the lineup at some point by the end of the month. That's after he had a strong, on-court workout Tuesday afternoon in Boston, starting to run, cut, move, take some slight contact. Like the Stephen Curry that we know.” Charania said.

“The most important part, though, is he's not experiencing the swelling that he's had over the last several weeks, or a month ago, when he needed to get a PRP injection, from my understanding, due those knee issues. Now it's about him building on this conditioning, getting more and more comfort in that knee before he's able to make the call to make it back on the court.”

There are fans around the league who think shutting Curry down for the rest of the regular season is the smarter play. But that's not how Curry is looking at it and it's not how the Warriors operate.

This franchise spent over a decade building its identity around competing, not tanking, not load managing through meaningful stretches, not giving up on a season while something is still on the line.

Nobody inside Golden State knows how many more legitimate postseason pushes Curry has left. That uncertainty is exactly why this stretch matters.