After Stephen Curry hurt his right knee during Sunday afternoon's playoff game in Houston, the basketball world waited to hear the extent of the MVP's injury. Shortly after noon Monday, the Warriors announced that Curry had a grade 1 MCL (medial collateral ligament) sprain. The news sent people scrambling to their computers, Googling terms like "grade 1 sprain" and "MCL recovery time." Grade 1 MCL sprains are relatively minor knee injuries. "It's definitely one of the better diagnoses to have because he's not going to need any surgery for it and he can really be expected to make a full recovery within a few weeks," said Dr. Alexis Colvin, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. [...] like most any sports injury, the prognosis for recovery is not an exact science. At nearly the same time the Warriors were updating Curry's status, it was learned that U.S. women's national soccer team member — and reigning FIFA World Player of the Year — Carli Lloyd suffered the same injury over the weekend. World-class athletes like Curry often can recover from injury sooner than most, thanks to their...