Warriors Insider Reveals Why Stephen Curry Wants to Play Out the Season

There was a lot of fear around the Warriors’ fan base that the team might have shut down Stephen Curry for the rest of the season. Jimmy Butler’s torn ACL seemed to seal the fate for the Warriors this season. Without him, the Warriors really had no chance to contend for a title, and with Curry dealing with a knee injury, it made sense for them not to risk it. That’s just not how Curry is built. Even if it would benefit the Warriors to tank and try to grab a lottery pick, Curry wants an opportunity to win every season, even when it is unlikely. That’s why Curry is set to return this Sunday in a game against the Houston Rockets.

Anthony Slater, one of the insiders who reports on the Warriors often, mapped out just exactly why Curry couldn’t call it quits on the season.

"He sees how tough this has been for everybody, how people are trying to soldier through this season where they've watched Jimmy Butler carried off into a wheelchair in January, which completely altered the season. The Moses Moody patella injury was shocking. It shocked their system. You're watching career-altering injuries, guys getting stretchered off the floor, reminders of the fragility of the season and of your career while they're all staring at the end. Steph knows he can get back, he believes he can physically get back and part of the reason as he voiced when I was talking to him was he wants to provide a little bit of sunshine through this darkness, a little bit of hope heading into the offseason, or even if it's not to boost what they can be in the offseason, although I think if he looks good, it probably helps any of their free agency pitches or anything like that, but I just think he wants to provide a little bit of a boost to a franchise and particularly the humans on the ground level of this operation at the end of what everybody can see, has been a bad season for a lot of people."

Curry couldn’t watch his team continue to struggle without him. If he is able to play, he’s going to do it, and that’s exactly what will happen this Sunday night.