Warriors superstar Stephen Curry will miss at least 10 more days due to his right knee injury, according to Shams Charania and Anthony Slater of ESPN.
Curry has missed 15 consecutive games due to patellofemoral pain syndrome, colloquially known as runner’s knee. He will miss at least five more contests following today’s update.
Curry, who turns 38 years old on Saturday, has begun on-court work and is hoping to “intensify his workouts” in the coming days, sources tell Charania and Slater.
The Warriors put out a press release (Twitter link) confirming ESPN’s report.
As Bobby Marks of ESPN tweets, the Warriors are 23-16 when Curry plays this season but have gone just 9-17 without their leading scorer. Golden State is currently 32-33, the No. 9 seed in the Western Conference.
The Warriors dropped back-to-back games (at Utah and vs. Chicago) over the past two days. While the players were “relatively upbeat” after Monday’s loss, they were “quiet” and “frustrated” in the locker room after blowing a late lead on Tuesday, according to Nick Friedell of The Athletic.
“Both very winnable games,” head coach Steve Kerr said Tuesday after a 130-124 overtime loss to the Bulls at Chase Center. “Had the lead late tonight — obviously, one we should have had — but this is how the NBA is, especially when you’re beaten up. You’re not going to blow anybody out; games are gonna be tight; you got to finish, and we didn’t finish either of the last two nights.”
Several players were sidelined on Tuesday, Friedell writes, including De’Anthony Melton. Golden State limited Melton’s minutes on Monday because the team planned to play him on both ends of the back-to-back for the first time in 2025/26, but that didn’t come to fruition after he tweaked his adductor.
Center Kristaps Porzingis made his third appearance as a Warrior on Tuesday, finishing with 17 points (on 5-of-13 shooting), four rebounds and four blocks in 20 minutes. He acknowledged he’s not in peak shape right now but is optimistic his conditioning will improve if he can stay on the court consistently, Fridell writes.
Porzingis also discussed Curry’s ongoing absence after Tuesday’s game, Friedell adds.
“I want to play with Steph,” Porzingis said. “Who doesn’t? I know he’s doing everything he can to be back with us as soon as possible. And obviously, it’s a completely different team with him here. Hopefully, I get that chance soon.”
the NBA needs to take a lesson from the NFL and have a flex TV schedule. Now we gotta watch more garbage Warriors games on NBC and Prime. Oof.
Most of the National TV game matchups suck. The NBA for sure has to do something about it
Nobody is forcing you to watch. They won’t change the scheduling if you continue to watch games you don’t want to watch. It is your fault.
“The Warriors are cooked!” – Charles Barkley a few years ago
You’re right! they’d much rather watch a team that hasn’t won since Nixon was in office. good call!
Face it. Curry is going to need the off season to get his knee right. It is all about strengthening under used leg muscles. He’ll be fine in the long run. You just can’t rush it.
But, it gives a bunch of these younger playing time. They get to see what they can do. They have an open roster spot. A 10 day contract, or two, might be a good.
He will not be fine in the long run. He is 38 years old. He cannot continue to go through the full grind of an NBA regular season. Same as LeBron. That’s why the Lakers continue to win when he’s not playing. None of these old stars are going to be able to continue to carry teams. The warriors are done. I’m sorry warrior fans just won’t face it but unless you trade Butler this off-season for some other young Superstar player that can carry the team until the playoffs and Curry doesn’t have to play no more than 55 games this team is over
I wonder how long it takes before our favorite warriors fans find somehow someway to twist this from them being the 9/10 seed and best case scenario getting gentlemen swept by the thunder in round one into them being the most dangerous 8th seed of all time and the thunder are going to be quaking in their boots to play them.
That’s already happened, lols.
Let’s check in with the other 40 year olds… yep they are also missing a bunch of games. Who could’ve seen this coming?