Report: Stephen Curry Played Through Illness In Game 2 Of The Finals

The Golden State Warriors lost Game 1 of the NBA Finals by nine points. Toronto’s depth overwhelmed Stephen Curry and his team. The cracks got deeper in Game 2 of the series, and the Warriors kept the score close. The Raptors had a better game, and the Warriors had to adjust to their game.

Something else caught everyone’s attention. Curry went to the locker room after the first quarter, but head coach Steve Kerr says he doesn’t know what happene. Doris Burke had to find out for him.

We can’t really tell what happened with Curry. He was probably dealing with an illness, and that was something fans noticed at the beginning of Game 2. The Golden State used him mostly off of the ball, he played with a lot of energy. However, it was obvious that he was tired.

DeMarcus Cousins was actually great in Game 2. He scored 11 points on 3-for-8 shooting, 10 rebounds, six assists and two blocks in 27 minutes and 37 seconds.

“He was great,” head coach Kerr said. “We came in thinking, ‘All right, he can maybe play 20 minutes,’ and he gave us almost 28. There was only one time in the game when he needed a rest, which was mid-fourth, and we gave him a couple minutes and then got him back in the game. But he was fantastic and we needed everything he gave out there—his rebounding, his toughness, his physical presence, getting the ball in the paint, and just playing big, like he does. We needed all of that.”

This won’t stop Curry from achieving his final goal. He is all-in when it comes to supporting the team, and no illness will stop him from playing this great.

The Raptors head coach knows it best.

“I call him a transformational player,” Nurse said. “He’s got kids all over the world shooting from 40 feet away. I think even as you’ve seen the three-point shot become so rapidly used in the last three or four years, a lot of that is because of Golden State and Steph and Klay and some of the other guys, KD, the other guys they have.

“Now you’re seeing quickly the league start to shoot six and eight feet behind the line pretty regularly,” Nurse added. “You didn’t see that maybe even a couple years ago. So I think he has transformed the way people view the three-pointer, the distance of the three-pointer as well.”

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