Warriors guard Stephen Curry will be reevaluated in 10 days as he seeks to return from the right knee injury that has kept him sidelined since January 30, ESPN’s Anthony Slater reports (Twitter link). That means that Curry will miss at least five more games in addition to the 10 he has already missed.
It’s essentially the same update the Warriors provided on February 19 when they announced that an MRI on Curry’s troublesome knee revealed no structural damage but that he would miss at least five games and would be reevaluated in 10 days. Today marked 10 days since that announcement.
Curry is dealing with patellofemoral pain syndrome, colloquially known as runner’s knee. He has referred to it as an “unpredictable” issue.
Head coach Steve Kerr previously stated that the team has no interest in shutting Curry down for the season. Golden State is currently the eighth seed in the Western Conference.
Curry is averaging 27.2 points and 4.8 assists per game this season despite averaging just 31.3 minutes per night, one of the lowest marks of his career. He’ll fall shy of the 65-game minimum for end-of-season awards, meaning he’ll miss out on All-NBA honors for just the second time in the past 13 years.
Curry will remain sidelined for at least the team’s upcoming games against the Clippers (Monday), Rockets (Thursday), Thunder (Saturday), Jazz (March 9), and Bulls (March 10).
Maybe next year? Tank and get that pick!
The Warriors are going to be in the play-in no matter what because the teams below the play-in line have lost a lot more games and are already tanking hard. The Warriors and Curry are not going to tank play-in games. They may lose in the play-in and have a shot at the lottery like Dallas did last year but not because they tank.
Exactly.
Next 5 games btw
Clippers
Rockets
Thunder
Jazz
Bulls
They can easily win 2+ of those. This is a nothingburger overall. Curry will be back, and he will be in “destroy everyone” mode. The Warriors can still win it all this season if everyone is healthy by mid April.
I knew California weed was good. I didn’t know it was this good.
Do you know what 4 rings feels like?
Do you know how it feels to hear “…from way downtown BANG!” and have it be your team?
Do you know how it feels to follow a terrible team for 30 years, only to watch it become the closest the league has ever had to its own Harlem Globetrotters? Damn near every game blown out in 3 quarters-type beat?
You don’t, do you?
Believe in Steph Curry. It’s not over until “out for the season” is next to his name.
You don’t know either
You have 0 rings
You’ve made 0 threes in your NBA career
Being terrible for 30 years is possibly the only thing you can relate to
Facts
It’s over AF
Only when I grow it!
No no they cant. They have 53M in salary missing, and you could round it to over 80M with Porzingas. Your not winning when Stephs number 2 is Gui sorry but no.
> No no they cant. They have 53M in salary missing, and you
> could round it to over 80M with Porzingas. . Your not winning
> when Stephs number 2 is Gui sorry but no.
Chap, agreed, let’s talk about next season. Give us some scenarios for getting out from under Butler’s deal this summer without giving up draft picks?
He is matching if you jump up in the lottery high enough to get Giannis with just Butler and picks. I mean the best time to trade him is next deadline when he is expiring, but that means your playing like 60% of next season with basically this same roster with a draft pick somewhere in the top half the 1st.
Its a bummer that without a couple of these plucky wins since Steph went down they could have actually gotten up to around the 6-7 best odds. I think now at the highest they could get to the 9-10th best without a tanking team going on a streak. I doubt they could get to the top 5 losing every single game left. The tank is strong at the bottom.
Unfortunately too mant teams are tanking to move to abetter position in the draft. If warriors were 100% healthy no doubt they get to the 6th seed in the west.
From getting Butler as a steal to getting ouf of Butlers deal real quick.
If only they’d stop playing Draymond, they won’t lose another game!
Honestly its 5D chess to get the team totally healthy for the playoffs and then cook everyone lol
I like the theory, Davey boy! come back rested and ready to burn with 10 games left. with KP. MEANWHILE….getting the rotation players in a groove and spring it on an unsuspecting playoff team. they’re laying in the weeds…..patiently waiting to strike
the team does play better without Green.
Is Cali pot the cure for POTS??
Unless he can get some homegrown stuff instead of corporate grown stuff.
Lottery pick is a solid pick this draft. Probably can trade for a young vet. You add the right young vet and Vuc in FA. Those are two significant additions to a playoff team with Steph n Jimmy. Look to next yr.
Its’ not happening Al, GSW has already secured a postseason spot. Too many teams are tanking.
Has an above .500 team ever been talked about like they are actually cellar dwellers more than this Warriors team has?
You all need to stop the hyperbole, they are making the postseason whether you like it or not. Grow up.
They can still fall to 14. Even 15 or 16 is a nice pick to trade. Best thing is to look to next year and regroup lol. 22 gms left. Top 16 still works.
How can they fall when all those other teams are also falling and purposely not winning? Let it go, Al, its never happening. Makes no sense.
It’s 5 games and 2 are vs Jazz and Bulls, so they will go 2-3 at minimum without Steph. It’s also good tactics to not play your full strength team in the regular season vs a team you might play in the playoffs. GSW are about to add Steph, Seth and have KP hit a spell of good health around April, they can still win the title this season. Steph’s ultimate revenge on all yall who ran your mouth this season haha
Dude look at the standings. Warriors are the 14th pick right now. One gm out of 13th. They shut it down now. They can be 12-14 easy. Like I said 14-16 is also a good place. What’s the point of playing for this year. Play the young guys to get them ready for next year. Simple lol … there are solid 4s there. Dra replacement eventually. Even playmaking guards.
GSW can win the title this year.
Your mindset isnt winning, GSW’s is.
Without Steph they aren’t getting out of play in. Why would you want to chance Steph getting hurt. For that.
Davey its good you want them to be champs but in reality there is no way they can beat the top teams. Its OK if they don’t win this year and get ready for next year. Curry’s knee only way it gets healthy is a lot of rest. His knee will not make it through a tough playoff schedule.
Arc89, they beat Wemby twice already.
His knee just needs rest, which is what he is getting now. He will be totally fine by April 1.
He needs a offseason or it will go at any time.
That’s not how rehabbing from runner’s knee works. You just need rest. Which is he getting. Now.
He didn’t get rest over allstar weekend. So that pushed him back about 3 weeks. He also has 4 kids so rest is not easy and a top movie out. If he is ok during play in that knee can go out anytime. So might as well tank it and do a fresh start for next season.
They aren’t tanking. Period. They are over .500 in March. Why do so many of you act like they cant get into gear before the postseason? If Curry is healthy 6 weeks from now, they are a threat. Period.
look at the teams in west top 4. They are not getting past them with only Curry as a offensive player. Losing Butler was the season right there. Curry will be triple teamed and on a weak knee. Its better to wait for next year.
“They are over .500 in March.”
Next level delusional post, given tonight vs the Clippers is the 1st game in March.
A 6-gm east road trip coming up wit 2 B2Bs. Warriors really got screwed by the schedule makers this season.
Agree to disagree, Steph not playing right now means nothing bad, it means he is getting 100%.
Curry playing on a bad knee screams Haliburton 2.0
That weak knee is gonna get blown out acl mcl and gonna cost Curry and the Warriors more than 2025.
They’ll lose out on 2025 and 2026 and beyond
Literally no reason to risk Curry’s long term health for a chance A CHANCE not a guarantee or overwhelming favoritism to win it all A SLIM CHANCE
Runner’s knee doesn’t progress to “acl mcl”. And wishing injuries onto players is a bad look.
Thanks for the medical report doctor doolittle
Any time you’re playing on an “injury” you risk further injuring the area
Runners knee: a common overuse injury causing dull, aching pain in the front of the knee/around the kneecap, especially during activities like running, stairs, or sitting. It is frequently caused by improper kneecap tracking, weak/tight thigh muscles, or direct trauma.
Wanna guess what happens when you’re playing on a bad knee caused by kneecap issues / weak too tense thigh muscles? You increase the chance you’re gonna tear something
Meniscus aka the muscle around the bad knee cap tears aren’t a joke
In the case of acl/mcl runners knee can lead to acl mcl tears mainly from instability in the joint
Googles free man. Try it sometime.
Ha ha – you can’t possibly believe that Curry has “weak too tense thigh muscles”.
He’s being conservative by not playing for over a month so far, and he’s not going to play until it resolves.
Descriptions of the injury on Google aren’t applicable to a top athlete who is getting the best available treatment and medical advice.
You don’t need descriptions or details lmao
Runners knee is a knee injury. Why isn’t curry playing thru the injury? Cause playing thru the injury runs the risk of making the condition worse or leading towards a new more severe injury cause the area isn’t 100% healthy. The meniscus acl/mcl are located in the knee area.
Why you’re struggling so bad with such an easy concept is weird
“It’s 5 games and 2 are vs Jazz and Bulls, so they will go 2-3 at minimum without Steph.”
Except the Bulls game is a B2B. And are you really sure the Warriors’ G-league level team can beat the Jazz on the road?
Bulls are not having a good year but they still have players that can score at any time. Sometimes hungry teams rise to do better so no game will be easy. Warriors are down Richards and maybe GP2 so that hurts. Schedule might be better next year since the warriors will not be the game of the week. i am hoping teh ratings goes down for warrior games so they are no longer the featured game on national TV
at which point, we put our plan into action!
Non-zero chance he retires if he insists on running around like Richard Hamilton on offense. Already was a liability on D. I can see him successfully transitioning to a more standstill, off ball shooting threat, but not sure he would (or should) go out in that capacity.
There is definitely merit to avoiding diminishing your legacy by hanging on, obviously is a very personal choice, but I don’t think he wants to hold the franchise hostage in mediocrity while he plays 40 games a year.
I personally thinks he runs it back one more year next year and then hangs it up. If he can get through 65 games and grab an all-pro on his way out it’s probably best for everyone. No doubt he’s earned the right to choose for himself, hopefully he sticks around the game in some capacity when it’s all done.
He wont be holding them hostage if he just takes less than the max which he is currently 4% over. The biggest hinderance to building a competitive roster around Steph is Steph’s salary. If he takes 20M after next season the team could instantly have max cap, and then some. Steph would still make over 100M those years with his endorsements. I think Steph deserves the money more the Lacob, but the cap rules and how they change your roster building are what they are. Steph has to decide does he like winning or money more.
> The biggest hinderance to building a competitive roster around
> Steph is Steph’s salary.
Disagree. It’s Steph’s age that’s the problem, not his salary. Steph will turn 40 years old next season. All players at this stage of their career are on borrowed time. Steph’s availablility is declining rapidly, as are his overuse injuries and, most important, as is the risk of season-ending injury.
GSW isn’t giving any more multi-year deals to elderly players. It’s on
They lost the bet, catastrophically, on siging an aging Jimmy Butler, disqualifying them from contention this season ($54M) and next ($57M). Butler is done. (No player in NBA history has ever come back from ACL surgery after 34 years old.)
It made sense to acquire Giannis because he was effectively replacing Steph for the next 8 seasons. You can build a future around a 31 year old, not a 39 year-old.
His age just plays into it. He is the NBAs highest paid player and makes 39% of the cap. By the very nature of that it will be hard to ever generate cap room, or have the ability to bring in real younger starting level talent without him taking less of the cap up. Nobody else on the team can take a pay cut and have it really matter.
Yeah Butler being another huge salary is worthless unless they are willing to use him as matching. If Steph stays good when healthy the team would have a lot easier time keeping him healthy after next season with a completely reset cap structure. Have Steph and Draymond as a much smaller portion, and Jimmy gone. Podz hasn’t done enough to be super pricy so they could bring in a max player, and several better role players.
> Have Steph and Draymond as a much smaller portion,
> and Jimmy gone.
Chap, excuse me, but Elvis is dead. You and I knew this past August that we’d be talking about this in March.
This was already the oldest team in the history of basketball. The front-office rolled the dice, against the wisdom about aging players that it had spouted for the last 4 years, only to learn that, sure enough, Father Time doesn’t make exceptions.
But, the cost of denying that reality destroyed not only 2025-26, but also 2026-27.
Jimmy Butler? They gave a late 30’s year old, oft-injured player 2.5 seasons of max contract. Great for 1/2 a season, catastrophic for the next 2 seasons.
Draymond Green? They extended a late 30’s year old guy 2 years too long. Dray is no longer a starting-calibre player, and is an untradable, but his $27M contract lasts through the 2026-27 season.
Steph Curry? Still a top-10 player when available, but no player with 50% availability is worth $60M.
The front office is not going to try to keep Draymond Green around longer than yesterday. And you’re right, for Steph to be here in 2028, it would have to be at a deep discount.
God bless Steph Curry for keeping his game face on, but he knows it’s the start of the farewell tour.
These guys think signing for $52-53m is a major discount ala KD. We need Curry to sign for $25m or less and come off the bench.
Warriors fans need to look at ourselves and understand why everybody else thinks we’re delusional.
The funeral should have happened last June.
On his own, a top-10 all-time player at 38 years old can only prolong the purgatory of mediocrity.
The full rebuild has to start now.
You cant rebuild with Steph unless thats what he wants. This franchise is the second most valuable in all sports because of him. You literally cant rebuild until he retires. He is a one team all time great and that means something.
The odds of them pulling out number 5 keep going down, and thats ok. Im cool with the greatest player the franchise will ever have getting a 5 year farewell tour if thats what it takes. And they will either get reinforcements or will be soft rebuilding as the wheels come off. Like what has value to tear down this roster besides Steph? So if your not trading Steph WTF are we talking about here?
That’s a naive picture of professional sports, on several levels. One consideration drives everything: share price. Steph Curry is incidental to that.
> This franchise is the second most valuable in all sports
> because of him (Steph).
False. As with any franchise, GSW’s value has zero to do with the past, and is entirely based on future discounted tax flows, “future” meaning, literally, for decades. The Warriors are worth $10B because that’s what TV and, more important, Chase ticket revenues will be because the Bay Area is the most affluent demographic in the country. The ownership group poured $3.5B into Chase for that reason.
> You literally cant rebuild until he retires. He is a one
> team all time great and that means something.
False. The Warriors’ business decisons come down to sustatined winning, because that, and not Steph Curry, is what drives revenue. The last 3 years have seen increased season ticket holder attrition and pricing erosion, even with Steph on-board.
The Warriors have a greater fear than Steph retiring at 39 years old: namely, 3+ more consecutive losing seasons will lead to declining season ticket revenues and price erosion, and, thus, share price.
> So if your not trading Steph WTF are we talking about here?
You don’t think everything is on the table? Over $10B in shareholder equity is stake. If you don’t think Steph’s future has been an ongoing conversation — not just at the board level, but also with Steph directly — you’re naive. Steph is a mature person, and worth >$500M. They have surely discussed how much longer he wants to play, whether he wants to be traded to a contender if things go south, etc.
If you dont have Steph and the dynasty building the brand, and creating such massive amounts of revenue to reinvest in all sorts of things outside the traditional NBA team, and the arena the team owns in SF property values theres no way this team would be trailing only the Cowboys in team value. He is absolutely intrinsically related to the team going from 450M when purchased in his second year to the current 12B ish.
Dude its not about a business decision, and you should want far more teams to care about fan service and legacy than business decisions. They will be alright. They have the arena Steph built in a very desirable coastal city. The bunkers that generate revenue will continue to do so since SV tech companies buy them up as perks. The Valks are the highest attendance WNBA team. They also should have the excess revenue that will allow them to make primarily basketball oriented choices once Steph is gone.
You literally cannot trade Steph. Look at what happened in DAL with Luka and the cancelled season tickets left and right combined with damage to the brand. If Steph wants to retire a GSW thats what will happen. The only way he ever gets dealt is if he asks out. You may not be loyal to Steph over the team, but Lacob is. Also in almost any scenario where he takes a discount he will get a NTC. One of the only ways you could actually harm the teams long term outlook is doing Steph dirty after all this. Will they maybe be mid till he retires? Yes. Will they maybe have to rebuild once that happens? Maybe. They will however either have a roster around him able to contend without him, a roster that at least has pieces that can kick start the rebuild if they get a Giannis or a Murphy III, or cap room for a couple maxs for anyone who wants to come to the bay and be the face of the new Warriors. Trading Steph Curry is basketball blasphemy on the level of BOS trading Bill Russell, or if CHI tried to deal Jordan in ’95. There are some things you just dont do, and one is trading the guy that brought you all the rings in the lifetime of most of the fanbase along with being the most popular bay area athlete maybe ever.
You cant rebuild with Steph unless thats what he wants. This franchise is the second most valuable in all sports because of him. You literally cant rebuild until he retires. He is a one team all time great and that means something.
The odds of them pulling out number 5 keep going down, and thats ok. Im cool with the greatest player the franchise will ever have getting a 5 year farewell tour if thats what it takes. And they will either get reinforcements or will be soft rebuilding as the wheels come off. Like what has value to tear down this roster besides Steph? So if your not trading Steph WTF are we talking about here?
Ill ride or die with 30 till the number is hanging in the rafters!
The same people who called the Butler trade franchise saving are now calling it franchise crippling. You cant make this up.
Butler was performing at a level that he was worth a lot more than they paid when he got hurt, on a relatively short deal where you were getting him for 1+ years, but not locking in money to his late 30s. If he hadnt gotten hurt they would have had a max salary contract attached to a player that wasnt a negative value. Even if he hadnt had the major injury I think it would have been smart to move him just based on the injury risk.
Franchise saving? WTF? He did save the season.
I mean I think you expected some injuries without having Jimmy get this severe of an injury being on the bingo card. I got the Jimmy move because of the cost, and it seemed to work. This team would probably be in the top 4 if he doesn’t get hurt.
Here’s the counter argument. If Jimmy doesn’t get hurt I think they had bought low, and he had shown top 20 talent since the trade. That player had real value on the trade market, and if he had been healthy they could have gotten assets for him while trading out old Jimmy for younger Giannis. A 3rd team would have paid a decent amount for Butler since this season he was in the top 10 in a bunch of the metrics when he got hurt. Jimmy was always the contract for the Giannis trade, and him getting hurt killed the package.
Steph is still good, and if the rest of the team was better it would be easier to get him enough rest to keep him healthier. The Steph save us really wears him down. I don’t know if Draymond has much left at least as a primary component, but he should come with a much cheaper price tag moving forward after this next season. If Steph extends for less they can have a lot of cap space in the summer of 27 when there looks to be some real FA. Build me a roster where Moody gets pushed down to 9th man, and Post is your 3rd string big.
The thing I dont understand at all is the Porzingas trade. He wasn’t going to be available, but they did nothing else to really tank. Like at best you get him to take a 6M one year deal this offseason or something because he has no market, and maybe after that fix or manage whats wrong with him. If your tanking out though you should deal away Buddy, Melton, Horford at the deadline, and keep Kuminga as your tank commander to raise his value. I just dont get why you deal for a guy who you should know cant play.
Steph is to good still for the tour, and while I have no idea how you build a good roster this next season without jumping into the top 3, I do think you can make a real winning roster around Steph the next season if he takes down his salary, and he could still be an important part of a real contender the year to three after that.
In no universe were the Bucks taking in Butler for Giannis even if he was healthy.
3rd team taking on Butler? If that were easy, Giannis would have been a Warrior already. Yet here we are with the reality that the Bucks did not want any combination of Butler or Green or Kuminga plus picks for Giannis.
3rd team paying for a healthy Butler adding to the assets going back for Giannis where from the GSW cap perspective its 1 for 1 going in and out. Of course you might have been able to pull off the double where you send Kuminga out to someone as the matching for Turner.
This ending was predictable.
There’s a reason that no NBA team has ever been as old as GSW is right now: old players get injured more, don’t come back from injuries as fast, and perform at worse levels than their salaries.
Saying that the “Jimmy move seemed to work” uses the same mistaken logic we heard with fans saying that “Steph is as good as he ever was” at the beginning of this season..until Steph got injured (again).
Old superstars can look great when they’re healthy. But they’re not healthy enough to justify their contracts.
Lacob said after the Warriors won the ‘Chip in the summer of 2022 that he had to have a new core in place in 4 years, and not because he didn’t love Draymond, Klay and Steph, but because they’d be in their late 30’s, and there has never been an NBA contender with a core that old.
Lacob and Meyers said that successful franchises can’t be sentimental about their past, that they have to start the next cycle before it’s comfortable. But too many stakeholders held on to the delusion that Steph and Draymond had several years remaining.
Dude older guys get injured more, that doesn’t mean those injuries are frequently the catastrophic type. Butlers injury was the type that could happen to any player that gets hit in the air and comes down wrong no matter the age.
The Jimmy move categorically worked until he had a major contact injury.
Dude you cant bail on Steph. Draymond is just a sidekick and paid way less. As they have already shown they would move on from Dray if it made sense. Steph, and the cores money that was committed to them when they were still at the top killed most avenues of talent acquisition. Do I wish they had drafted a couple players instead of others? Sure, but these are the types of things that really only look obvious in hindsight. Like other than getting wildly lucky with other different moves they really didnt have a way to do much more. Most of the decisions made sense at the time in a vacuum. Even the 20-21 drafts where they had high picks had a lot of extenuating circumstances related to the pandemic making them less than ideal.
Chap, you and I had this same argument this past summer, and I couldn’t have been more right:
Steph suffering even from over-use injuries.
Draymond is now washed.
Jimmy, injury prone before, is done.
They were already the oldest team in history. It was a long-shot, and they lost. They’re not taking another bet against even worse odds.
>?Dude older guys get injured more, that doesn’t
> mean those injuries are frequently the catastrophic
> type.
Chap, that’s also false. Google it. A 35 year old is about 2.5x as likely to have a season ending injury as a 25 year old.
Prior injury to the same joint is also a multiplier. Jimmy has had multiple prior meniscus procedures to the same knee
@ChapmansVacuum said:
> You can make a real winning roster around Steph
> the next season (2027-28 | 40 yrs) if he
> takes down his salary, and he could still be an important
> part of a real contender the year to three after that
> (2028-29 | 41 yrs; 2029-30 | 42 yrs; 2030-31 | 43 yrs).
I added Steph’s age to each year of your prediction.
So, Steph doesn’t age like everybody else? Despite being unavailable for 1/2 his games in 2025-26 (at 37-38 yrs old), you think he’ll be healthier in the future, and be elite until 42-43 years old.
Do you believe that Steph foresees this scenario?
Do you believe the Warriors front office believes Steph can be available for 3-4 more seasons?
If you have multiple ways to bring in impact talent than yes you can make a winning roster around Steph.
Just because he is old doesnt mean he has become any less effective when healthy, and as a player type you would expect the shooting and running endurance to age well, along with the handle. Steph is one of the hardest workers in the NBA, and has virtually unlimited resources when it comes to body management. Just because I say he will be an important part of the team doesnt mean it will revolve around him as much as now. The whole idea would be to have him ramp up in the playoffs, but have to shoulder a much lighter load in the regular, with more ability to stay rested, and healthy. The whole idea would be to build a contending roster that makes sense around Steph.
An aside you listed all his ages as they will be in the spring of those seasons, he will play most of those seasons at the lower age as his Bday is mid march. So in effect you have made every season one older than he will play those seasons at.
I think Steph being smaller, very ground bound with no above the rim play, and shooting never ages. He is already one of the most dedicated athletes ever when it comes to his fitness and training. He will probably hang it up from lack of wanting to keep with the grind than inability to perform when healthy.
I think legacy matters to Steph, and some more longevity to his career will help him cement himself at the very tops of all the career lists. Steph cares about having the resume of a all time top 1-3 player if he can I believe.
Because of what Steph has done for, and means to this organization they owe it to him to try and make the team that will support him as best they can until he decides to hang it up, and I think they understand and support that. Even if they dont raise another banner nobody is going to be upset about them trying for Steph.
They should shut him down. They are not winning the Larry O.
oh ancient one…there will be a deliverer. not one that can be put in chains..nor one that is a myth in a bottle. what’s of more concern is that the people believe Moses Moody to be their deliverer. so it shall be written…so it shall be done
YOU KNOW BALL!!!
It’s like talking with an obsessed 11 year old.