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"FacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterestCURRY_RUBRIC5.gif\n\nA couple weeks ago I had to deal with my first and only injury of the season. I played against the Lakers on a Monday night, had practice that Tuesday, shoot-around Wednesday morning, and then went back to my apartment for my usual pre-game nap. When I woke up, my ankle was really stiff and sore. It kind of scared me at first. I didn't know what had happened to it because I didn't sprain it or anything at the shoot-around, so I tried to just walk it off. I thought it might've been one of those passing sort of ordeals. Then I got to the arena and it felt progressively worse. I suited up for my pre-game warmup like I usually do, and I got out there and took two jump shots and couldn't land on my ankle. So I went to get it checked out and they found some inflammation. I hadn't been planning to sit out, and so I didn't have a suit to wear on the bench. I had jeans and a button-down, but I didn't want to miss the action, and needed a blazer. So I had to wear one of Coach's extra suit jackets. He's 6'6\" and about 240 pounds, so that jacket sort of swallowed me whole. That was the same ankle I hurt last February, when I had a serious sprain. Same ankle, just a weird freak injury. I was kind of upset because I was trying to play all 82 games this season. My teammates were starting to call me Iron Man or something. I wanted that nickname to stick, but I missed two games total.\n\nAfter that second game, there was a second leg of a back-to-back and we only had eight players, so I felt like I had to get out there and give my team some help. I was just good enough to play, so I suited up. It's crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action. It took me a while to get back into game shape when I got healthy. Your endurance and stamina go out the door. I had a lot of energy to start the game when I came back, but as soon as three or four minutes pass, you're dead tired. Your touch and your feel for the game is pretty much gone if you don't work on it\u2014at least get some shots up or dribble the ball. I didn't touch the ball for four straight days, so a major struggle was just getting the feeling back for all the stuff you've got to do with the ball.\n\nTwo weeks ago, I had a home game against Memphis that went really well. It was my fifth thirty-point ten-assist game of the season, I think. Somebody told me that I was the first rookie who's done that since Michael Jordan\u2014to do thirty-ten five times. I was already in that category for the triple-double game, so to add this one with just me and him was pretty cool. It's special, a nice little milestone to reach. Another reason I'll remember my rookie year.\n\nOnce it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season's end is approaching, and we're all pretty physically tired. But if you ask anybody on our team, nobody really wants the season to end. You have so much fun playing games. We all love basketball, so we never want the season to end, 'cause then it's five month of sitting around and watching the playoffs. Right now, we're looking at the schedule trying to figure out where we're going to get these last wins. I know there's a lot of talk that Coach Nelson doesn't really care about the wins record, but to be the team that puts him over the top would be really great.\n\n[Curry and the Warriors hope to lead Nelson to the record tonight against the Minnesota Timberwolves.]\n\nCheck out more of Curry's \"My Rookie Season\" blog."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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