Stephen Curry’s Suffers Head Contusion After Fall!!!
It’s been dubbed the scariest fall in the NBA! The Warriors star Stephen Curry’s Suffers Head Contusion After Fall over The Rockets star Trevor Ariza during the second quarter of Game 4.
The Golden State Warriors didn’t realize that cranial concussion since Curry’s taken harder hits—and come away with worse symptoms—but that second-and-a-half or so of unexpected flight was the scariest.
After the game Stephen said:
“You’re in the air for a long time…not knowing how you’re going to hit the floor, knowing that it’s inevitable.”
Though Curry passed the NBA’s concussion protocol, the team didn’t know for sure that Curry didn’t have a concussion—because it couldn’t have. Stephen Curry has been everything to the Golden State Warriors this NBA season, maybe more so during his record-setting postseason.
So when he took a painful tumble after committing a foul during the second quarter and was laying on the court in Houston on Monday night, the basketball world gasped, hoping the sharpshooting guard was not seriously injured.
Take a look:
As for his condition. Curry didn’t seem to be suffering a worrying amount of ill effects from falling six feet or so backwards and cracking his skull on the hardwood. (At least, none beyond staring dead-eyed into the distance whenever the camera caught him between plays in the second half.) This is good news obviously, and much better than Steph leaking gray matter down the back of his away uni, but it says something specific about the limitations of concussion and brain trauma tests as they exist in sports. Specifically, it says they’re very hard, and also suck.
At the podium after the game, Curry repeated over and over that the important thing was for him to make sure everything was okay before re-entering the game, and that nothing had gotten any worse since the incident. He said he went through some agility drills, rode the bike, and did some sprints in the hallway to make sure that symptoms didn’t crop up while he was running around. These are a good baseline.
He might be feeling that fall when he retires from the NBA in about 10 years.
What do you think?
