Warriors Steph Curry, 38, sees multiple seasons still ahead of him

PHOENIX — The knee injury that sidelined Steph Curry for a large chunk of this season isn’t going to end his career.Not anytime soon, anyway.Curry, 38, was asked after the Warriors’ play-in loss to the Suns on Friday whether he still hoped to play “multiple” more seasons.“Multiple, for sure,” he said.

“That’s more than one?”It was, perhaps, an obvious answer to a nevertheless worthwhile question after Curry slogged through one of the most injury-plagued of his 17 seasons in the NBA.Most troublesome being the bout of runner’s knee that he has said will require a “new normal” to manage while remaining on the court.Curry worked his way back from a two-month absence to play 36 minutes in both of the Warriors’ play-in games.

But after a 35-point explosion in their comeback against the Clippers, he suffered a bit of a letdown with 17 points on 4-of-16 shooting in their season-ending loss to the Suns.“For us to have that moment we did in LA, the highs of that and the lows of tonight, it’s just what basketball – what sports – is about,” Curry said.“For us to have had these last three, four days and the whole play-in situation, I’m proud of the way we finished it.

Because it could’ve been very sleepy.Like I (don’t) come back and we get blown out in the first game and everybody kind of just goes into the summer with no real direction.

It was a fun ride these last four days.”In all, Curry appeared in only 43 games, the third-fewest of his career.He could only watch as the Warriors went 9-18 over a 27-game stretch his missed with the knee issue in January and February.The Warriors also lost Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody to season-ending knee injuries, shipped out Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield, and welcomed Kristaps Porzingis into the fold.“It was a roller coaster ride to say the least,” he said.

“You see just momentum slipping away.But there was still this underlying belief that when it comes to the Warriors, you’r...