Minneapolis - Stephen Curry sat in a chair, dressed in clothes, and it looked like he was ready to ride on the golf course instead of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Or more accurate, rigorous recovery.

He walked out of the visitors’ locker room on Tuesday and entered Minneapolis Night, his left-hand rope caught the attention of the Golden State Warriors and the NBA.

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In the Warriors locker room, dialogue is not a team that could lose its leader for a long time.

You can't tell if they're worried that their season will depend heavily on the results of the MRI test on Wednesday morning, or how exhausted they're doing physical and emotional tests in the first round.

The energy inside is not the same as what they show in the 48-minute focus as they shocked the Timberwolves in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semi-Finals to win 99-88 at the center of the goal.

Curry looked up after surfaced in the 8:46 mark in the second quarter (his 13-point final), which he did a lot of times before and started his move, and will do more tonight.

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Now the Warriors call him "everyday" waiting for the results of the MRI - the schedule keeps the Warriors from rest as the game is played every other day until a four-day break between games 5 and 6, if the series lasts that long.

This is another example of these playoff unpredictability, especially for older politicians. LeBron James suffered an MCL sprain after being knocked out by Donte Divincenzo within minutes of the Lakers' season decline. Damian Lillard sat on the floor of the Fiserv forum immediately after tearing the ACL, smiling almost like a Joker.

Now, maybe Curry has added the roster, which has left the Warriors feeling uneasy in this series.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr said: "He was obviously crushed. "Obviously, we all care about Stephen, but it's part of the game. Guys are hurt, you keep moving forward. Our guys did a great job of keeping going. ”

Just 48 hours after their finals in Game 7 in Houston, Curry was abandoned when Amen Thompson seemed to have cramped down, giving the greatest shooter more and more, enough to nail another heartbreaking, heartbreaking, shocking triple.

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Now, cruel or at least possible possibility has turned to curry. Even if he grabbed the back of the leg, he was able to play up and down defensive stops and offensive games.

This is better than most devastating hamstring injuries. The enduring image of Magic Johnson, a chartered member in the Pantheon of Big Scoring Guard, grabbed his hamstrings in Game 2 of the 1989 Detroit NBA Finals. He could hardly move, but he knew the severity and didn't want to leave the floor when the Lakers had a three-game winning streak at that moment.

For Curry, he provided Draymond Green with a three-point assist and immediately started heading towards the locker room with the pace of the timeout. But he has not resigned immediately.

He told Green, "I'll be back," because Green noticed Curry's gait was not right.

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Maybe this is a good sign for moving forward.

The best signal is that it is speculated that the Warriors hired Jimmy Butler. His regular season output doesn't look very different from the man he replaced, Andrew Wiggins, but he plays differently at this time of year.

From Rudy Gobert to Julius Randle to Anthony Edwards, he defended everyone, calmed down as Buddy Hield woke up at the right time. Hield was +16 in the first half, but his name was only two points (0-7 fg) before exploding 16 points on the third time as the Timber Wolves began to get rid of their lethargy.

"Robin (Butler) turned into Batman...Alfred (Hield) turned into Robin and they just filled it," Green said. "It's so beautiful to see."

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Butler and Hield have this playful brotherly energy, picking each other to keep the light. Butler mocked Hield for not having the right match shorts as Hield had to quit the match and change in the locker room.

But that keeps things serious, tense moments, especially for teams with only experience in the playoffs.

"I saw the butter (hield) was aggressive and shot in time and stopped a lot," Butler said. "I think we all want 30 (curries), which is for sure. But we want him to do his best for himself, the best for our team, for a long time, in the long run. Until then, we could stick to the fort. I know we can."

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Whenever Hilder can defend Anthony Edwards and his reality (Edwards 24 to 23), the Warriors will accept the deal every time. Butler helped control the pace and seize key property, with seven of seven assists scoring 20 points on the offensive 11 rebounds.

Since reaching the deadline, Butler has been ingrained in the Warriors culture and delayed Curry and Green's leadership. But the Warriors, who are often short of Miami in Miami, must enter the center stage.

No matter how long the curry hurts, Butler had to do more, he knew.

"I'm not a shooter," Butler said. "(If) my guys were open, I'm going to pass it, they'll shoot. If they don't shoot, they might yell at the point of not shooting the ball, I just need efficiency.

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“I train for this.”

Among these calories, Butler used 27%, with an average of 24.7 points, 6.8 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.9 steals. In terms of context, his usage has been around 21 since the Warriors.

“We are two of the three leaders of this team,” Green told Yahoo Sports. “Our guys are down, we have to strengthen the category and figure it out and help men succeed. We have to do that.”

Green admitted that despite Curry's identity being uncertain, the Timberwolves would feel more confident despite the explosion of the first game. But he will do more.

"He knows, we'll make sure he knows," Green said.

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Green hasn't scored four threes in the playoffs since the 2017 semi-finals against Utah (who hit five in the second game of the series), but was alive early on when the Warriors needed spacing and shooting.

Maybe it was just one night, and the Timberwolves did everything they could to help the Warriors continue the NBA trend, which has been taking care of the business before the second round, missing 19 of their first 20 3-point attempts.

It seems like they are trying to provide the Boston Celtics with bad shooting recognition and decision making to get the best in the hands of the Warriors. Edwards is the NBA's all-out use next, taking 28 minutes of game time to find his first bucket, and his 23-point and 14-rebound shooting percentage is too small, as Timberwolves can never be ahead of the game.

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Nor can they bring their size advantage to their preferences, as the warriors arrive at each loose ball.

Who knows if it can be copied to the rest of the game 2 or the series, but waits for the game to begin.

Will Curry compete in the third game at home? Or Game 4? Even Game 5, back to this building, it could be a possibility that the playoffs are as quirky as the playoffs.

But that night, the warriors had no king's rule.

The Warriors didn't even cry for a night, but they wanted Joey to come in the morning.