Minneapolis - Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry missed a week after being diagnosed with a level 1 left-hand leg muscle with a left leg muscle rod on Tuesday in Game 1 of the team's playoff series.

The Warriors said Curry had an MRI on Wednesday and he will reevaluate him within a week. Sources told ESPN's Shams Charania that while the team didn't give him a exact schedule of return, it would depend on how he dealt with the first muscle strain recovery of his career.

"I think you're just playing at one time," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said Wednesday. "And we can't... I know there's a (three-day) break between (games) 5 and 6, and everyone is saying these three days (maybe Curry returns)... We can't think about that.

"I mean, Stephen will come back when he comes back. We just focus on tomorrow's game and we go from there."

Curry was injured in the second quarter of the Warriors' first win of Game 1 99-88. He can be seen grabbing his left leg after scoring on a 14-foot buoy with 8:48 left this season. He sent a signal to the bench but stayed in the game for 29 seconds before the game stopped. Curry then walked straight to the locker room, and was excluded shortly thereafter, scoring 13 points in 13 minutes.

There is only one day off between each match between Game 1 and Game 5, and Curry will be eliminated at least in Game 4 on Monday. The potential game 5 on May 14 was eight days after the injury. Then, there is three days off before the 6th potential match on May 18, and Game 7 will be May 20.

"We're in that room now talking about how we're going to handle it," Kerr said. "The look of the lineup. It's all part of it. Every year, the playoffs are about adapting the game plan, the injury or the lineup. We just have to adapt. We've done this before and we're confident we can do it again."

The Warriors showed 9-3 in 12 playoffs without Curry. But it will be their first playoff game in the 2018 Western Conference semi-final against the New Orleans Pelicans because of his knee injury. In 12 playoff games without curry, the Warriors had Draymond Green and Klay Thompson. Kevin Durant played in six games.

"I think the difference at the time, we had the NBA's all-time roster," Kerr said after the Warriors won Tuesday. "So we had the ability to handle Stephen's losses in those days.

"But there is a lesson. I mean, you have to understand the need to win a game without the best players. (Game 1) shows that very well."

Kerr said he didn't need to "win Stephen's speech" to the team before the second game because the Warriors would feel the sentiment meant to the Curry.

"It's just given," Kerr said. "Everyone likes Stephen very much and respects him, he's the reason the whole run happens. I mean, there's a lot of contributions, I'll say the same thing to Draymond and Klay, and there's a lot of key people who have driven this thing. But when it comes to that, it's Steph's, it's Steph, it's his entire team. Understand... they'll happen on their own.

Winning Match 1 gave the Warriors more confidence that they could do it again without curry. Kerr listed the team’s elite defense, which reached 89 points in Game 7 and Minnesota’s 89 points, both on the road in Game 1.

“We know what he did,” defender Brandin Podziemski said of Curry on Wednesday. “The number of things he has done for our team throughout the year over the years, for this organization, he has given this team everything. We know we have his support and he has our support.

“We will do our best and we know we can win with anyone out there.”

Minnesota forward Jaden McDaniels said Wednesday that the Timberwolves would have to believe that partner, Buddy Hield, led Golden State with 24 points, 5-8 from Game 1 - on the court and guarded him.

"I know when we don't have the best team, sometimes we struggle," McDaniels said. "So just treat your friends like Stephen and don't let him have a game like the last game...trying to shut his water down."

McDaniels added that it would be "a little easier" to turn to cover Hield instead of curry.

"Just because Buddy is like Steph, he's only shot a lot of 3s," McDaniels said. "I won't say he's as good as Stephen, but he's like Stephen. I'm just guarding Stephen on him. Just don't give him any space. Basically his shadow."

ESPN's Dave McMenamin contributed to the report.