7:50 pm: Head coach Steve Kerr acknowledged that time is running out for Curry to return this season, per Slater (Twitter link).
“We’re not bringing him back (only) for the play-in game,” head coach Steve Kerr said. “He’d need to play some games. We need to give him a runway if this is going to work. And we are running out of games.”
Moses Moody also underwent surgery on Friday to repair his torn patellar tendon, tweets Nick Friedell of The Athletic.
6:54 pm: Warriors guard Stephen Curry will be reevaluated sometime next week as he continues to deal with a right knee injury, according to Shams Charania and Anthony Slater of ESPN (Twitter link).
Golden State hosts Washington on Friday and plays at Denver on Sunday, and Curry will miss both of those contests. He has been out since January 30 due to patellofemoral pain syndrome, colloquially known as runner’s knee.
While Curry, who turned 38 years old this month, “continues to make good progress,” he still hasn’t participated in a 5-on-5 scrimmage yet, the team announced in a press release (via Twitter). That’s supposed to happen in the “coming days,” per the Warriors.
Even though he’s been out for two months — he’ll be up to 25 consecutive absences after Sunday — Curry hasn’t given up hope on potentially returning this season, sources tell ESPN (Twitter link).
Following Sunday’s contest in Denver, Golden State returns home for a five-game stretch against four playoff teams. The Warriors’ final two games will be on the road (at Sacramento on April 10 and at LAC on April 12).
The Warriors also announced injury updates on Al Horford (right soleus strain), Seth Curry (left adductor strain) and Quinten Post (right foot soreness). Horford has begun light on-court workouts but is out at least one more week, while Seth Curry and Post are considered day-to-day.
Horford and the younger Curry brother have both missed the past seven games due to their respective injuries, while second-year big man Post has been out for the past two contests.
…..we know. Dang these Steph curry will eventually return articles are so stale lol
He isn’t coming back, if so at what level?
Warriors are playing the game within the game. Steph got ruled out earlier, nobody would turn up to the game. Do the math.
Curry should be fine when he comes back. They mostly want to see how he works with Pozingis.
Putting your faith in old Steph and Kristaps….do I even go on? Good luck with that. SMH.
Why is that a problem for you? I know you are looking for that once in a generation player. I like to be a bit more practical.
Curry doesn’t need to play this season for them to know the pairing with Porzingis will work.
I don’t think anyone expected Porz to play 10 out of his 1st 21 games after all the missed games in Atlanta. So the issue is Porzingis’ market value next season, and if GSW will risk signing him despite his illness.
Porzingis is built for this offense. Only He’s a 1way player. That’s if he plays. I couldn’t trust him DNPKP. Vuc is cheaper and plays 70 plus gms. For the cap Warriors will have. You may be able to sign Vuc and Simons. Two guys also built for this system.
Curry doesn’t need more than 1-2 games here. He has been here before.
That’s true they have been in the play in 3 times already. Been a while since they got eliminated in the play in though so hopefully curry can’t get up to speed for that.
@daveyj, I agree that Steph usually comes back from injury very fast.
But the bigger question will be whether GSW is willing to risk further injury.
Kerr is saying is that he needs at least 4-5 games of progressively more work work. And I bet Steph agrees.
It’s runner’s knee, there is no risk for further injury, if he plays and hurts it again, its another 2-3 months off, which GSW will have.
Wrong
runner’s knee (patellofemoral pain syndrome) can become a more serious, chronic issue if ignored, potentially leading to persistent pain, cartilage damage, or long-term mobility issues. While often a minor overuse injury, continuing to run through pain can cause it to develop into severe inflammation, tendonitis, or chronic knee damage.
If there was no risk for further injury they give him pain management shots. Obviously there’s risk to playing in it and why he’s been out so long
“Wrong”
/lists some ai junk that proves nothing nor contains anything factual “can be” “if ignored”. Like, what is this nonsense? lol ai is so dumb. Please don’t use it again in here.
Cool. Story. Bro…it’s runners knee, its nothing serious. It’s cured in like 6 weeks of careful rest.
The real issue here is that Curry likely has another injury they are hiding. The Warriors literally always lie like crazy about injuries they have. Its crazy how we all haven’t caught onto their lies yet.
Yes, your claim that “It’s runner’s knee, there is no risk for further injury” was proven wrong.
What’s even funnier is you stating that “it’s runners knee”, and then flipflopping to it’s actually “another injury”.
The only (dumb) thing left is for you to blame Kerr for causing that (entirely made up in your head) other injury.
@NBA is OK – I have you muted, please do not reply to me, I cannot see your reply guy trolling comment, because you are a troll who just wants to argue with people, not talk ball. Your whole thing is “whatever you write, I will argue the opposite, just because I can.” Which is trolling. Shut up, moron. Get a better hobby than this.
@SteveAdams – please fix this bug, because I keep getting notifications that people I have muted have replied to me, but they are worthless to these discourse sections so I muted them. If I still get a notification that one of these low IQ crybaby idiots have replied to something I wrote, how is that “muting”?
Again, you gotta make muting go 2-ways, I do not want @NBA is OK or other trolls to be able to see anything I write if they are logged in. Most other sites have this option. Being I drive the convo on here by talking ball, you should want more posters like me on here, and less of these pure-reactionary trolls like @NBA is OK.
Also: ban @NBA is OK for trolling. They haven’t added a thing to any level of conversation, they are a troll. Not worth my time to engage with them.
@NBA is OK
Maybe stop replying to posters, and instead focus on making your own comments. Drive the conversation, stop trolling. I won this argument but you are likely claiming otherwise, like you always do, as you are a troll and this is what trolls do. Hope this helps you figure out how to be more liked on here, because no one likes you here btw.
FYI, I talk ball here daily, and unlike you post takes based on actual facts, not your delusional reruns. It’s clear that you do a lot of trolling here, so be careful what you wish for wrt asking to ban people you’ve labeled as trolls.
Also, the name you’re attempting to whine @ is Luke Adams, not Steven. Somehow I doubt that he will agree to your demanding that your comments be invisible to anyone you’ve weakly muted.
Also, you’re not in charge of what I post, and it’s absurd to claim that I don’t “drive conversation” – because since you were too weak to be able to (gasp) read my comments, obviously you have no idea what I’ve posted.
“Carry On”!
WARRIORS OFFICIAL STATEMENT
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“Warriors guard Stephen Curry, who has missed the last five games due to patellofemoral pain syndrome/bone bruising in his right knee, underwent an MRI Wednesday night. The MRI confirmed the injury and showed no structural damage.”
@DaveyJ, Respectfully, it’s been reported consistently that Steph is suffering from TWO INJURIES. One is “runner’s knee” and the other is a BONE BRUISE. These are 2 distinct injuries.
WARRIORS OFFICIAL STATEMENT:
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A bone bruise (a.k.a. “bone stress reaction”) is a series of microscopic cracks in the inner layer of the bone. If you subject that bone to the high-impact forces of NBA basketball—jumping, lateral cutting, and sprinting—before those micro-cracks heal, they will coalesce into a full stress fracture.
The risks of premature return from a bone bruise are catastrophic — plates and/or screws, with extended recovery times. Say goodbye to 2026-27.
Warriors medical staff (led by Rick Celebrini) issued the following diagnosis after the February 19th evaluation:
To be fair, I had no idea it was two injuries. Still, those injuries shouldn’t mean missing 30 games. I think GSW saw the rest of the west teams tanking and saw they were going to make the postseason no matter what and decided to get him the most rest possible.
> Still, those injuries shouldn’t mean missing
> 30 games.
The bone bruise injury absolutely means he can’t play until it’s completely healed.
The bone bruise could easily become a full-blown stress fracture. The docs aren’t lying, and neither is Steph. Nobody’s conspiring to keep Steph on the bench until the playoffs.
Lmfao. Go in the booth as Clark Kent, come out superman. You clearly haven’t been very good at sports in your life.
Bet me $100 GS win the title and I’ll give you 1k if successful. Actually stratch title. You can have that for a first round victory and advancing as the 8th seed. Got some work to do to be said 8th seed.
Is Steph in the new He-man movie as Prince Adam?
They have two chances to lose in the play-in to get in the lottery, right?
As the 10th seed if they lose the first game they’re out.
Yes Sam, correct. As the 10 seed, they’ll have two chances to lose.
They might win the first game versus the nine seed, then will move on to play the loser of 7 versus 8.
If they lose that game they are out and thus in the lottery, and placed according to their regular season record.
My hope is they continue to lose regular season games, which would secure their more favorable place in the lottery.
> My hope is they continue to lose regular season games, which
> would secure their more favorable place in the lottery.
Gary, FWIW, it’s now mathematically impossible for GSW to have a more favorable place than its (current) 11th.
None of the teams currently in places 1-10 can fall out of that most favorable 10 slots.
There’s an ouside chance POR could lose 2 games more than GSW, giving them the 11th pick and GSW the 12th…but POR have a WAY easier schedule than GSW.
Crack the champagne, mission accomplished.
Yes, now that Milwaukee and Chicago have decided to lose the Warriors can’t get that 9th or 10th pick.
They’re in 11th currently but if they continue to win games like dummies it’s possible they slip to the 12th, 13th or even worse, 14th pick.
That would be a massive fumble by a team I thought was a little more calculated in its day to day decisions than that.
So they need to lose more regular season games to secure this more favorable draft position.., # 11 before lottery day.
>Gary, FWIW, it’s now mathematically impossible for GSW to >have a more favorable place than its (current) 11th.
This isn’t true. All the teams that don’t make the playoffs are in the lottery. The play-in is not the playoffs. It’s a tournament to get into the playoffs. Just go back to last year. The Dallas Mavericks finished the regular season in the same spot that the Warriors are in now and the wound up with the number 1 overall pick (Cooper Flagg). The lottery is 14 teams not 10.
@jh82, I’ll try to help you understand.
Yes, all 14 teams that don’t make the playoffs are in the lottery. Nobody said otherwise.
The point under discussion is whether the GSW can IMPROVE THEIR CURRENT POSITION (i.e, have a higher/better pick in the draft) than their current 11th position. They cannot.
To get a higher/better position in the draft, GSW would need to finish with a worse W-L record than one of the 10 teams that a worst record than them. That’s mathematically impossible.
And, at this point, It has absolutely nothing to do with how many or which teams make the playoffs.
Only 2 games out of 8 seed btw
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