On Monday night, Stephen Curry of Golden State, the NBA's Most Valuable Player, took a spectacular tumble while attempting to block a shot against the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference Finals, spinning in the air and landing with a solid jolt to the back of the head. Later, Curry returned to the game, although he was clearly suffering from what someone who didn't want to say “concussion” might call “the cobwebs.”
On Wednesday night, Curry's teammate, the also-valuable Klay Thompson, took a knee to the side of the head from Houston's Trevor Ariza, left the court, went to the locker room and came back with no concussion test and a laceration to the ear that required him to go back and get three stitches.