Steph Curry Gets a Hand Job ... and 3 Months to Recover

If ever Steve Kerr had an ultimate coaching challenge, it's now.

• Losing Kevin Durant to free agency still left him with a proven ring-winning roster,
• Losing Klay Thompson for the season due to an Achilles tendon injury was a sobering development, and now
• Losing Steph Curry for half the regular season with a broken hand is enough to double the team's usual inventory of clipboards.

 

Damn. Maybe that's why he stays quiet about China. Can't afford a boycott.

Dude couldn't afford to lose Curry, either.

Wiry litte guards driving to the rim is always gonna be an occupational hazard, and with a human drawbridge like Aron Baynes added to the equation, Dell's oldest kid tempted fate once too often:

 

We now know that Curry wasn't fortunate.

Dude's injury was some sorta break of the second metacarpal in his left hand. The surgery was to reset the bone so it would not only heal but avoid becoming an arthritis magnet.

So he's on the shelf until it heals, which the surgeons estimate to be three months.

 

And that can add up to a hella lotta clipboards.