On Tuesday night, the Golden State Warriors were back in action against the Houston Rockets in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs. After jumping out to an early lead thanks to Andre Iguodala, the Warriors received some bad news. Star point guard Steph Curry left the game after suffering an apparent injury. It was a scary sight as Curry attempted to go for a steal in the early minutes of the first quarter. When he attempted the steal, it looks like Curry dislocated a finger on this non-shooting hand. A photo of the injury shows the damage to his hand. I don't think Steph Curry's middle finger is supposed to look like this pic.twitter.com/MFNWdg1920 — Nick Bromberg (@NickBromberg) May 1, 2019 Yikes. Curry went back to the locker room for a few minutes as team doctors re-set the finger back into place. Trainers then taped up the finger and Curry found his way back onto the bench. After a short conversation with head coach Steve Kerr, Curry talked his way back onto the floor for the Warriors. Meanwhile, James Harden left the game after being poked in the eye. With Harden back in the locker room, the Warriors have opened up a sizable lead. With just a few minutes left in the first quarter, Golden State holds a 24-11 lead.<doc-sep>On the same night and in the same game that James Harden suffered an injury to both eyes, Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry dislocated his middle-finger in gruesome fashion. Curry went to block Clint Capela of the Rockets when the ball tipped off his finger and bent in such a way where it was sticking out of place a bit. He ended up leaving the game for a bit to get an x-ray and then came right back to finish the match. Afterward, Curry's coach Steve Kerr discussed the extent of the injury. "It looked bad when he came off the floor," Kerr said according to ESPN. "I looked at the finger and I was just hoping it was a dislocation and not a break. And fortunately, that's what it turned out to be. As far as whether it bothered him, you can ask him that. I thought he did some great things for us and fueled us; and may not have shot the 3 that well, but played a great game for us." For Curry, he's just happy the injury isn't more serious than it is. "It hurts, but it's all right. Didn't break anything. Fortunate, and some higher power's looking out for me on that one. Just gotta deal with pain and hopefully, before Saturday, that goes away and will be fine." Curry will have three days to get his finger ready to go for Game 3 which goes down on Saturday.<doc-sep>Click here if you have trouble viewing this gallery in your mobile device. OAKLAND — Steph Curry unleashed an F-bomb as he trotted to the bench, grimacing in pain as he placed nine of his 10 fingers against his knees. The 10th, the middle finger on his left hand, dangled in the air. As Clint Capela rolled to the basket and received a lob from Chris Paul three and a half minutes into the game, Curry slid over from the corner and swiped at the ball with his left hand. Instead of knocking the ball loose, Curry dislocated his finger. Curry grabbed at his left hand while he walked into the tunnel, bent over, not knowing if his finger was broken or simply dislocated. Luckily for the Warriors, it was the latter, as X-rays returned negative and Curry returned just over three minutes after leaving the court with his middle and index fingers taped together. “It hurts, but it’ll be alright. I didn’t break anything. I am fortunate and some higher powers were looking out for me on that one, but hopefully before Saturday that goes away and I’ll be fine,” Curry said. “I was able to play. It’s different when I’ve never had a dislocated finger like that before and they pop it back in and you’re just dealing with pain, but I wasn’t thinking about it out there.” Curry scored 20 points but shot only 3-of-13 from deep, and at times seemed limited dribbling with his left hand. The Warriors topped the Rockets, 115-109, though, as Curry battled through his injury to give the Warriors just enough as they took a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference Semifinals on Tuesday night. “It looked bad when he came off the floor. I looked at the finger,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “I was hoping it was just a dislocation and not a break. Fortunately that’s what it turned out to be. As far as whether it bothered him, you can ask him that. I thought he did some great things for us and fueled us. May not have shot the 3 that well, but played a great game for us.” Curry missed his first four 3s after returning, but got a finger roll and a pull-up 3 to fall in the final 44 seconds of the first quarter. Shortly after entering in the second quarter, still nursing a bum middle finger, he blocked Clint Capela’s shot from behind with his injured hand and saved the ball from going out of bounds. So how’d that feel? “What you think?” Curry said smiling, tilting his head toward a reporter, who then asked if Curry regretted blocking Capela’s shot with his left hand. “Nah,” Curry said smirking. “I ain’t got a block like that in a minute, so I’ll take the pain for that for sure.” Curry never established a rhythm from the field (he went 6-of-16 overall) and finished his second straight game with five fouls, this time picking up his fifth with 5:37 left in the game. He recorded only two rebounds and five assists to go along with three turnovers. Curry hit just one 3-pointer in the fourth quarter, but it was an important one. The Rockets had trimmed a 15-point deficit late in the third quarter to a three-point hole midway through the fourth. Curry, 2-for-9 from 3 up until then, sunk a triple to give the Warriors a 96-90 lead. Not until there were three seconds left did the Warriors lead by less, but by that point it was too late. Even with a mangled finger and a second straight mediocre shooting night to his name, Curry did what he does so well when it counted the most. On Sunday, with only 15 points to his name through almost four full quarters, he disposed of Nene before hitting the eventual game-winning 3 with 24.9 seconds left. Two days later, with another unspectacular line through three and a half quarters, Curry hit yet another timely 3-pointer. “I know how tough he is,” Klay Thompson said of Curry. “Especially because it’s not his shooting hand, I knew it wouldn’t affect him too badly. We wouldn’t have been able to win that game without him, so I’m really glad he came (back) out there.” With Game 3 not until Saturday evening, Curry has plenty of time to rest his finger. Asked if head trainer Rick Celebrini had instructed him how to heal during his extended time off, Curry came with the jokes. In other words, he’ll be just fine. “He said play as much golf as you can,” Curry said, “really get that swing speed going, test that left hand as much as you can in the next four days and everything should be fine.”<doc-sep>
Steph Curry appeared to dislocate the middle finger on his left hand just minutes into the first quarter of Game Two of the Western Conference Finals versus the Rockets. He exited, and cameras caught a closeup of the top of his finger looking out of position and abnormal. At the time, just 3 and a half minutes into the game, Curry had recorded just an assist and a steal with the Warriors up 10-5 at Oracle Arena. Here’s video of the star guard leaving for the bench and the closeup of the finger. Steph Curry with an apparent left hand injury, not ideal pic.twitter.com/afX0dytBsj — Chris Montano (@gswchris) May 1, 2019 Curry reentered with tape around the finger according to Mark Berman of Fox 26. TNT stated that initial X-rays were negative, allowing the star guard to hit the court again. He finished the 1st quarter with 5 points off 2-of-6 shooting, including one triple on 5 attempts. Golden State ended the period up 29-20 over Houston, last year’s opponent in the conference finals. Guess Steph Curry is fine. ? pic.twitter.com/sgcJ7OnTiQ — MyBookie NBA (@MyBookieNBA) May 1, 2019 Heading into halftime, Curry proved he was fine health-wise. He filled the box score with 10 points, 2 boards, an assist, a steal and a block heading into the locker room. James Harden Eye Injury Update Meanwhile, James Harden is still out after an apparent bruise on his left eye. Per our own Jeff Smith: After the incident, ESPN’s Tim MacMahon pointed out that the Rocket entire training staff was tending to Harden, who remained down. He followed that up by citing that Harden went to the locker room with an ice pack covering his left eye. The positive news is that it’s believed Harden was poked in the eye, and that it’s not something more serious at this point. With that said, there’s been no official confirmation from the team on that, and they also haven’t revealed the outlook for Harden and chances that he returns to the game. Mike D’Antoni stated on TNT that Harden was bleeding from the eye and would not provide a timetable for his return. Harden did return with over 7 minutes left in the 2nd quarter, finishing the half with just 7 points on 3-for-7 shooting.