The Golden State Warriors may have just lost both games of a back-to-back to the Utah Jazz and Chicago Bulls in supremely disappointing fashion, but the light at the end of the tunnel manifested in the form of Steph Curry's injury re-evaluation.

Curry has been out with a nagging knee issue, initially diagnosed as runner's knee. He's missed the last 20 games in a row, and there hasn't been a clear timetable for his return outside of the 10-day re-evaluation window set on March 1st.

For any Warriors fans hoping for good news, they did not get anything of the sort when Curry's status was finally revealed.

Initially announced on Wednesday afternoon by Shams Charania on X, Curry is set to miss another 10 days before he is re-evaluated once again. He'll miss at least the next 5 Warriors' games, meaning his absence will extend to 20+ consecutive games missed.

Warriors PR specified to say that Curry's re-evaluation indicated that he's been making good progress and has been working out individually on the court. Based on his progress in those individual workouts, both Curry and the Warriors are looking to intensify the workouts soon.

Ultimately, though it's good to know that Curry hasn't suffered any setbacks since the one he reportedly had during the All-Star break, it's a huge blow to a Warriors team that was hoping for their leading scorer to return to right the ship.

With this new timetable, even if Curry returns right after those 10 days are up, he'll return on March 21st, 5 games later. The Warriors do play the second game of a back-to-back on that day, so if he ends up missing that as well, then he'll have missed six games, leaving just 12 games left in the regular season.

On the schedule for the Warriors in this upcoming six-game stretch are a home game against the Timberwolves on Friday, then a brutal five-game road trip with two separate back-to-backs against the Knicks, Wizards, Celtics, Pistons, and Hawks. 

The Wizards and the Hawks theoretically don't pose a threat, even though the Hawks did just allow Bam Adebayo to drop 83 points in a single game. However, it seems all sure things are no longer considering the Jazz and Bulls games both seemed like they should have been foregone conclusions ahead of tipoff.

The more worrying matchups are the other six games against the top three Eastern Conference teams and the No. 5 team in the Western Conference. Outside of a crazy upset like the Warriors pulled against the Rockets last week, getting out of this six-game stretch with a record better than 2-4 might be close to miraculous.

Even if they go 2-4, the Warriors' record would then be 34-37. The gap between them and the Clippers for the 8th seed in the Western Conference would almost certainly grow from the current half-game separation, and there's a chance they even fall to the 10th seed if the Trail Blazers make up ground, as they're now only 1.5 games behind the Warriors for 9th.

It's a potentially disastrous scenario waiting to happen that Curry may not even be able to save the Warriors from. Though they are all but locked into a top-10 seed and can't fall out of the Play-In Tournament, the path to the playoffs looks like it may become a true gauntlet.