Warriors beat: Kerr says Curry sets tone for team like Tim Duncan.

In a league rife with superstar comparisons, Stephen Curry is a tricky case study. His combination of slight frame, dazzling ball-handling and record-setting three-point shooting leaves few parallels to other players. Warriors head coach Steve

Kerr has a comparison for Curry, and it’s far from obvious: former San Antonio center/ power forward Tim Duncan.

“Steph sets the whole tone for who we are and our identity as a franchise and a team,” Kerr said. “We talk about joy all the time. Nobody plays with more joy than Steph Curry. The fact that he’s so unselfish both as a player and a human being. He’s so giving. When your best player has those attributes, it’s amazing with the tone it sets.

“It reminds me of playing with Tim Duncan in San Antonio, where his personality and the force of his humility and talent, which is a rare combination, but the force of that combination is just tone-setting for almost two decades in San Antonio. Steph is doing the same thing.”

Kerr should know: He played four seasons with Duncan in San Antonio (1999-2001, 200203), winning NBA titles in 1999 and 2003. Now, in his fourth season coaching Curry with Golden State, Kerr sees Curry helping foster the same lockerroom culture of accountability and humility that Duncan built with the Spurs.

“The chemistry is something you can’t ever quantify, but you can feel it,” Kerr said. “With this group, I felt it the first day I walked into this gym. We try to do things to cultivate that culture, but it’s really the players that create that with the way they handle themselves and the way they treat each other.”

Minutes limit: Curry likely will have a minutes restriction when he returns to the lineup, Kerr said before Friday night’s game against Charlotte.

The team is hopeful Curry will be back from his sprained right ankle for Saturday’s matchup against Memphis. Curry went through practice Thursday, which included about 30 minutes of reviewing plays, before participating in a 3-on-3 scrimmage. He went through shootaround Friday morning with no issues.

To make sure he wouldn’t have to play a back-to-back set fresh off injury, Curry was held out against the Hornets. The right ankle sprain Omri

Casspi suffered late in Wednesday’s win over Utah is not considered serious. Kerr said that, if Casspi is feeling OK on Friday, he also could return Saturday.