The injuries keep piling up for the Warriors. Already without Stephen Curry and Jimmy Butler, they are dealing with four more injuries, as Anthony Slater of ESPN details.
Draymond Green was scratched 30 minutes before tip-off of Friday’s loss to Minnesota because of lower back soreness. Al Horford departed after five minutes with right calf tightness. Seth Curry limped to the locker room in the second quarter with left adductor soreness and Quinten Post sprained his left ankle.
“We’re going through it,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “We’re about as beaten up as any team I can ever remember.”
Kerr expects Horford to miss several games. “With a calf, we’re not going to rush him back,” Kerr said.
Stephen Curry missed his 16th consecutive game and the Warriors have gone 5-11 in that stretch. Now, they embark on a six-game road trip.
Here’s more from the Pacific Division:
- There was a bright spot for the Warriors on Friday. Midseason acquisition Kristaps Porzingis scored 20 points and feels like he’s fitting in, according to Michael Wagaman of NBCSportsBayArea.com. “We’re starting to develop a decent feel,” Porziņgis said. “I think guys are getting accustomed to playing with me. It’s progress. We’re getting better for sure. Overall, I think we’re heading in the right direction.”
- Clippers center Brook Lopez is in the midst of his 18th season and he’s aiming for more, he told Marc J. Spears of Andscape. “I always had a number of 20 years. A lot of great players played 20 years [whom] I looked up to,” he said. “Timmy [Duncan], Kobe [Bryant]. I think Ticket [Kevin Garnett] got there. That’s always been a goal of mine, but I feel great. So now that we’re as far along as we are, I don’t really want to put a cap on it. Just see how long we can keep going until we fall.” The Clippers have a decision to make early in the summer regarding Lopez. They hold a $9,187,500 option on his 2026/27 contract. He’s averaging 11.8 points and 5.1 rebounds since the All-Star break.
- Deandre Ayton has developed into the Lakers’ X factor, Khobi Price of the California Post points out. The Lakers are 27-8 when he grabs at least eight rebounds and 24-9 when he takes at least eight shot attempts. Ayton had 23 points and 10 rebounds against Chicago on Thursday. Ayton holds a $8,104,000 option on his contract for next season.
the warriors are last year’s Grizzlies with the all injury team. The Curry brothers may have broken the record for most injuries by 2 brothers in 1 season. I see a 10 day contract in the warriors near future.
Charles Bassey just might be that 10 day contract. He has been impressing with the Sea Dubs.
I bet he will be signed very soon if Post going to be out a extended time.
Hopefully, they won’t let these injuries go to waste. Cyr, Leons, Williams, Santos, Richard all need the minutes. Throw them in the fire and let them make their mistakes. The Warriors will know what they need to work on going forward.
Hopefully, Celebrini can continue work his magic and get KP into a good space. Bassey looks like he’ll get a contract for next season. That will be be the most big men they have had since they were forced to give up Bogut and Ezeli for KD. If they keep Post and Horford, we might see bigs at multiple positions.
Then, they can find Curry’s successor in the draft.
Deandre Ayton is not an X factor, and correlation does not equal causation.
He gets stats and feels motivated when they play bad teams and/or he has an obvious physical mismatch.
Losing to both the jazz and the Bulls this week was the official end of the season.
Curry’s not coming back. Not official but write it down.
Warriors are trying to get the 11th pick instead of trying to win regular season games for home court in a play-in game and wind up at draft number 13 or 14.