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Steph Curry successfully participated in his first five-on-five scrimmage on Monday

with the team's G-League affiliate in Santa Cruz,

marking an important step in his eventual returns from the broke in the left hand.

Though Curry had targeted Sunday's game against the Wizards as his hopeful return date,

the Warriors wanted him to participate in a full scrimmage that

would more closely resemble the game action that awaits him after a four-month absence.

In the three-quarter scrimmage, Curry on the Blue Team, was coached by Chris Weems and lost

by one point to the white team led by forward Jonathan Simmons, who the team recently signed.

It was Simmons who defended Curry on a potential game-winning mid-range jumper.

Afterwards, Curry stayed on the court and went through shooting drills for 90 minutes.

Curry won't travel with the Warriors for Tuesday's game in Denver, but could return as

early as Thursday against the Raptors at Chase Center. That would provide up to 20 games for

Curry to test his nerve damage toanned and build some chemistry with his new

teammates before an extended off-season.

Now, from what I saw in Santa Cruz, and I drove down there and didn't watch the scrimmage,

media was not allowed in the scrimmage, but we were allowed in for media availability,

and Steph went through about an hour and a half of shooting drills afterwards.

Very meticulous, very detailed, but very different than what he is accustomed to doing.

Rick Celebrini, the team's director of sports medicine performance,

who's been working very, very closely with Curry during this entire process,

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