For at least one year, the broken hand Stephen Curry suffered in Wednesday's 121-110 loss to the Phoenix Suns alters the NBA's 2019-20 landscape.
Even after the Golden State Warriors got off to a 1-3 start, FiveThirtyEight's projections give them a 51 percent chance to make the playoffs. That doesn't account for however much time Curry will miss, though.
In Street Clothes' Jeff Stotts explained the potential timeline:
"The InStreetClothes.com/SMART database has seven recent examples of second metacarpal fractures, including Westbrook, Danny Green, and Nikola Vucevic. Of these seven players, four required surgery.