Six minutes into Wednesday night in Houston, Stephen Curry hit a three-pointer, winced, and walked off the floor holding his right side. He did not come back.

An MRI the same evening confirmed an oblique abdominal tear, Golden State announced on Thursday. He will be re-evaluated in two weeks.

Steve Kerr had already sounded the alarm after the game, before the imaging result came back.

“He just said he tweaked something in his abdominal area and said he’s never done it before,” Kerr told reporters. “I mean, concern is high, but I have no idea the extent of the injury.”

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Curry had been carrying a thin Warriors rotation through the first month of the 2026-27 season. He averaged 27.8 points, 3.9 assists and 3.7 rebounds in his first ten starts, shooting 50 percent from the floor and 45.7 percent from three. Jimmy Butler, Kristaps Porzingis and Moses Moody have all been sidelined, leaving the 38-year-old guard as the night-to-night engine.

A 0-3 opening to the season had been followed by eight consecutive wins. The 115-108 defeat to the Houston Rockets snapped the run and left Golden State at 8-4.

Six games in two weeks

The two-week window opens at San Antonio on Saturday and runs through a home date with the Sacramento Kings on November 26, covering six games in all. A trip to Portland on November 28 is the first fixture on the other side of the re-evaluation.

Rookie forward Yaxel Lendeborg is likely to see the biggest bump in responsibility. He has averaged 21.7 points, 7.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists through the early schedule on 51.8 percent shooting. De’Anthony Melton started the second half in Houston after Curry exited and is the likely starting guard against the Spurs.

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Asked what the group would need without Curry, Kerr pointed to structure.

“Without Steph, we have to be organized and in our concepts with our spacing, so that we can attack and create shots for each other,” he said after the game.

Golden State play at San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center on Saturday.

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