Eleven minutes.
Two games.
That's all the time the Warriors' championship triumvirate of Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson have played together this season.
That's all the time they have played together since Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals.
And with Curry now sidelined indefinitely with a sprained ligament in his foot, it's fair to question if those 11 minutes will be the totality of their time together before the start of the 2022 NBA playoffs.
Indefinite.
That's how NBA newsbreaker Shams Charania described the timeframe for Curry's return.
A week, a few weeks, a few months? With 12 games to play in the regular season, every day matters.
But "indefinite" was fitting, too.
What has this Warriors season been if not indefinite?
This team's quality — its status as a championship contender?
It's been a tough read, indeed.
Indefinite.
Klay Thompson's return date from his back-to-back leg injuries? That timeframe was indefinite for months, if not years.
Draymond Green's return from his subsequent back/calf injury?
The initial diagnosis of the injury was indefinite. His return time? The same.
Starting to see a pattern develop?
James Wiseman's return — now imminent — was indefinite for months.
Andrew Iguodala? Right now, I don't think his existence is definite.
But the theoretical veteran wing will theoretically return... at some point. Indefinite.
How's Jordan Poole going to play in the next game? Indefinite.
Does Steve Kerr trust Jonathan Kuminga? That's indefinite, too.
Say what you will about Andrew Wiggins, he at least has the decency to just be indecisive on the court.
But we should have seen this coming. Not Curry's injury, of course, but the fickleness of this Warriors season.
Yes, this instability and this nebulousness are byproducts of having a veteran team — of rolling with the guys who have been through the battles, who fought the wars.
Curry's injury might have been of a freak (or dirty) nature — the foot sprain came when Boston's Marcus Smart dove for a loose ball and went into Curry's leg first — but things like that will happen in the NBA. Sorry, it's true. You roll the dice every minute of every game. The dice might be loaded with Smart on the floor, but the risks are understood.
But because of all of the Warriors' other injuries, this team lost its margin for error months ago. While the Phoenix Suns have the depth and the cushion to hold onto the 1 seed without Chris Paul since the All-Star Game, the Warriors find themselves in no such position.
There are only two things definite about Curry's injury.
First: It sucks.
Second: This is going to put the Warriors in an even more precarious spot for the remainder of the season.
Throw away the Warriors' upcoming road trip. There's no chance Curry is on that plane given this team's conservatism with injuries and their one-eye-on-the-playoffs focus since Christmas.
How long Curry is out after that is anyone's guess.
But without Curry, the Warriors are exceptionally vulnerable.
As of Thursday morning, they are in the No. 3 seed, 2.5 games up on the Utah Jazz and Dallas Mavericks in the standings, 5 games up on the sixth-seeded Nuggets, the final real playoff team.
Because of Poole's emergence as a top-flight scorer, the Warriors' situation isn't going to be as dire as the whole of the 2019-20 campaign, when they were the worst team in the NBA.
But it's a good thing the Warriors have spent the last few weeks telling the world that they don't care about home-court advantage in the playoffs, because I seriously doubt they'll have it in any round once the "real season" begins.
