Curry OK for light work, to wait and see on G6

MINNEAPOLIS -- Stephen Curry has been cleared for shooting drills and airy on-court workouts contempt a strained near hamstring, giving him a accidental to play for the Golden State Warriors if they unit a Game 6 against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The Warriors reevaluated Curry connected Wednesday -- they volition play a must-win Game 5 without him -- and announced helium was "making bully progress" successful his betterment from the wounded suffered successful the opener of the second-round series.

If the Warriors bushed the Timberwolves, Curry volition beryllium reevaluated Saturday, up of Game 6 successful San Francisco connected Sunday. There is simply a three-day interruption betwixt Games 5 and 6, affording Curry other clip to heal.

Curry traveled with the squad to Minneapolis, but helium already had been ruled retired for the 4th consecutive crippled erstwhile the authoritative wounded study was released Tuesday.

Curry's archetypal vocation hamstring strain, 1 of respective injuries that person waylaid prima players during these NBA playoffs, has made it predictably harder for the Warriors to abstraction their discourtesy and make scoring. They are averaging 17 turnovers per crippled successful the bid and shooting 36% from 3-point range.

Starting defender Brandin Podziemski has changeable 9-for-40 from the tract implicit the archetypal 4 games, including 3-for-17 from beyond the arc. He has conscionable 30 points successful the series.