SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry limped off the court after tweaking his right ankle in a noncontact play during an open practice for fans Sunday.
“He said he’s fine,” coach Steve Kerr said after the event at Chase Center.
The Warriors open the season Wednesday on the road against the Los Angeles Lakers.
Last month, the 38-year-old Curry received a two-year contract extension worth $116 million — taking a discount for $20 million less than the maximum he was offered. He is entering his 18th NBA season and is committed to finishing his career with Golden State.
Curry averaged 26.6 points, 4.7 assists, 3.6 rebounds and 1.1 steals last season but was limited to 43 games because of injuries. He missed 27 straight games and more than two months down the stretch with a right knee injury and the Warriors missed the playoffs, losing at Phoenix in the play-in tournament.
https://apnews.com/hub/nba
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) drives to the basket against the Portland Trail Blazers during the second half of a preseason NBA basketball game, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) smiles during the second half of a preseason NBA basketball game against the Portland Trail Blazers, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
CLEVELAND (AP) — Drew Rasmussen allowed one run over seven innings for his second postseason win, Tampa Bay’s offense kept on constant pressure and the Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 3-1 Sunday night to take a 3-2 lead in the AL Championship Series.
The Rays will try to capture their third AL pennant and first since 2020 on Monday at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. Since the LCS expanded to seven games in 1985, road teams winning Game 5 for a 3-2 lead have won the series four of five times.
Game 7 if needed would be Tuesday, and the World Series starts Friday at NL champion Milwaukee.
Cleveland has not won an ALCS when trailing 3-2.
Tampa Bay scored single runs in each of the first three innings, the first two off Parker Messick and the third against Tim Herrin.
Rasmussen shut down the Guardians’ offense after allowing two runs over six innings in the opener. After Chase DeLauter’s two-out single in the first, the 31-year-old right-hander retired nine straight batters and allowed only one other baserunner through the sixth.
Rasmussen gave up four hits, walked one and struck out six. He is 2-0 with a 1.29 ERA in three postseason starts, striking out 23 and walking three.
Cam Booser and Tyler Wells worked the eighth, with Wells striking out José Ramírez to strand a runner.
Bryan Baker came in for the ninth and converted his 35th straight save chance, his fifth of this postseason. Jo Adell was on second base when Travis Bazzana hit a game-ending groundout.
Steven Kwan had two of Cleveland’s five hits and made two fine defensive plays: He threw out Taylor Walls trying to score from second base on Jonathan Aranda's fourth-inning single to left and made a leaping catch at the center-field wall on Victor Mesa Jr.'s eighth-inning drive, saving a run.
Tampa Bay’s leadoff hitter reached base in the first four innings — scoring in the first three frames — and six times overall. Rays' leadoff batters have reached in 10 of 14 innings dating to Saturday.
Yandy Díaz had three hits while Aranda and Liam Hicks both had two hits and drove in a run.
Díaz scored on a bases-loaded walk by Messick to Jonny DeLuca in the first inning. Díaz led off with a line-drive double over center fielder Petey Halpin that rolled to the wall.
Aranda’s single drove in Ben Williamson for a 2-0 lead in the second, and Hicks looped a curveball from Herrin to center to score Chandler Simpson in the third.
Cleveland finally threatened in the seventh when Kwan and Ramírez singled to put runners at the corners and DeLauter grounded an RBI single between first and second.
Messick had the shortest outing of his big league career and didn’t make it past the third inning for the second time in four postseason starts. The 25-year-old left-hander went two innings and allowed two runs, five hits and three walks over two innings, throwing just 34 of 57 pitches for strikes.
See AP’s full MLB coverage here
Cleveland Guardians third baseman José Ramírez throws out Tampa Bay Rays' Chandler Simpson at first during the eighth inning in Game 5 of an American League Championship Series baseball game in Cleveland, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Tampa Bay Rays' Liam Hicks watches his RBI-single against the Cleveland Guardians during the third inning in Game 5 of an American League Championship Series baseball game in Cleveland, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Cleveland Guardians pitcher Parker Messick reacts after walking in a run against the Tampa Bay Rays during the first inning in Game 5 of an American League Championship Series baseball game in Cleveland, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Tampa Bay Rays' Ben Williamson scores past Cleveland Guardians catcher Patrick Bailey during the second inning in Game 5 of an American League Championship Series baseball game in Cleveland, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Drew Rasmussen celebrates the end of the seventh inning against the Cleveland Guardians in Game 5 of an American League Championship Series baseball game in Cleveland, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
