Warriors’ Steph Curry out at least one week with quad contusion, muscle strain

The Warriors will have to navigate the next week or so without superstar guard Steph Curry.An MRI confirmed that Curry sustained a quad contusion and muscle strain in Wednesday night’s loss to the Houston Rockets, the team announced Thursday. The 37-year-old will be re-evaluated in one week.ESPN’s Shams Charania and Anthony Slater first reported on Thursday that the Warriors expect Curry to miss “a week or a little more” because of the quad contusion.The good news for the Warriors, per Charania and Slater, is that Curry appears to have avoided a serious injury.Curry sustained the injury late in the fourth quarter against the Rockets, and while he initially played through the injury, he was forced to head to the locker room in the final seconds of the loss.Bottled up by the Rockets’ defense, Curry finished with 14 points on 4 of 13 shooting from the field and 2 of 9 from 3-point range.If Curry misses exactly one week, he won’t play in the Warriors’ next three games — at home against the New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday, at home against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday, Dec. 2 and on the road against the Philadelphia 76ers on...