Marcus Sensible was simply making a Marcus Sensible play when he dove for a free ball that resulted within the damage of Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry final week. Regardless of Steve Kerr’s frustrations in the intervening time, it’s secure to say that everyone knew it then and is aware of it now. That is Sensible’s recreation; he’s a bull in a china store, regardless of the results.
However when diving for a free ball ends in a long-term damage — one that can reportedly hold Curry sidelined till April, if not later — hypothesis is certain to proliferate. Fortunately, Curry all however put these concepts of intent to relaxation yesterday, telling reporters that, no, he didn’t really feel like Sensible’s play was malicious nor soiled.
“There’s a sure manner that he performs that I don’t suppose many different individuals would’ve made the play that he did,” Curry stated. “However I don’t suppose it was malicious or soiled or that he was making an attempt to harm me. It’s only a robust scenario.
“Like I stated, simply the best way that he performs,” he continued. “There’s a dialog simply round ‘ought to he or shouldn’t he have,’ nevertheless it wasn’t like he checked out me and was like ‘I’m making an attempt to harm that dude. It’s basketball.”
“I don’t suppose it was malicious or soiled or that he was making an attempt to harm me.”
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Curry is sidelined indefinitely with a sprained ligament in his left foot, in accordance with The Athletic’s Shams Charania. X-rays didn’t present fractures or main harm. The damage, which got here within the second quarter, rapidly grew to become the story of the sport, regardless of the Celtics’ blowing out the house squad.
After the sport, Sensible was adamant that hurting Curry — or anybody, for that matter — is rarely his objective. “Everyone who is aware of me is aware of I’m not making an attempt to harm anyone,” he stated. “I play arduous. I go away all of it on the road. I go away my life on the road on this court docket each single evening. I made a play that I make each evening and sadly, and it’s killing me proper now, Steph received damage.”
As for what he and Steve Kerr mentioned following Steph’s damage, Sensible famous that the Warriors’ coach, understandably, was doing he’s speculated to do: backing his participant. However Sensible additionally made it clear that he and Kerr had been hardly at each other’s throats.
“Me and Steve received a relationship from [Team] USA that we are able to speak like that,” Sensible stated. “And afterwards, he instructed me, ‘I would like you on my group. You’re a kind of sort of men that everyone needs on a group. I needed to again my man up, a lot respect to you guys.’ That’s what it’s all about. Like I stated, I hate that it occurred, and I really feel actually dangerous, and I hope he’s alright.”
That Curry isn’t totally alright was by no means Sensible’s intention. It’s simply good to know that every one events concerned know that to be true.
