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. Today’s update suggests he’ll miss at least five more contests.
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
tonights games are fine.
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.
This season has made you bitter
I haven’t watched most of them. It’s just a little disappointing
I’ve seen them change NBA games before. They do it later in the season when teams suck that they didn’t expect when they set the schedule.
“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
You should try reading instead of overreacting. Runners Knee can happen at any age. He doesn’t have arthritis. There is nothing structural. The issue is under utilization of muscles. His recovery is strength training, as he is doing now. Long-term it shouldn’t be a problem.
Curry is already talking about becoming a part time player. He wants to mentor the next generation.
In regards to Steph’s career, there is no long term. Everything is short term when you’re 40 and in the NBA. You can’t even sign a 3 year contract.
As far as mentoring the next generation. Pretty sure he’s already doing that, since he has taken in half the season on the bench in street clothes.
We’ll find out what kind of contract he gets when he turns 40. That is still a couple of years off.
I did read my guy. He is 38 and it will be nothing but Little injury after a little injury. Nobody was talking about him having runner’s knee. If you read my comment, I said that him and all the rest of the old stars cannot go through the grind of a full regular season. So if you’re relying on him to carry your team, he physically can’t do it. They are for the warriors are done. But for some reason warrior fans on this site, I’m starting to realize they’re worse than cowboy fans that you guys will spill anything out of your mouth, even if it doesn’t sound logical.
Curry is one of my favorite players of all time and is to me own this area even over top of LeBron. However, father time gets everybody and there’s no way. As I said in my original comment, he will be able to last 82 games or even 70 70. Maybe not even 65 and still be able to compete like a high level in the playoffs.
So again, circling back to my original comment and lost the warriors, sign and trade for a younger star with Jimmy Butler. He’ll be more the same with Korean Butler. Continue to have more minor injuries throughout the year. Missing game after game after game
Jeez…You are still ignoring what I said. Did you notice the part about giving the younger guys more playing time to see what they can do without Curry? You really don’t know what they can do until they get regular playing time. It’ll give the players more confidence and the FO will know what holes they need to fill.
What young guys. Playing meaningful basketball does what. Non of these guys can carry a team. I just stated Curry is probably unable to play more than 65 games a year and be healthy for the playoffs. So in the other 17 games who is going to carry the team. Moody. He like JK have played hella minutes already and are who they are. They will have good games here and there but are inconsistent and are just role players. So with close to $100 million tied up between a 36-year-old and a 38-year-old to be 39 next year. How and where are you going to get the guy who can carry you through the playoffs?.
You know what it’s called and end of an error. It happens to everyone and every team. When you got Butler and he went down you lost the gamble. The game was getting to the playoffs a healthy Curry and Butler has a chance. Guess what they can’t stay healthy so it over.
You can deflect and go to the young guys. The warriors don’t have any any high-level prospects or guys who can start on an NBA championship caliber team. They do have role players and you need those and I’ll give you that but there are no starters.
Even Jonathan kuminga. He’s played two games for Atlanta against the worst team in the NBA. We already seen a guy score 83 points versus the Washington wizards so nothing Jonathan kaminga has done is any different.
This would be fine if the Warriors had enough young talent/potential talent where a dialed back Curry would still be enough for the team to be very competitive. They do not.
Yes, the young players can step up and help ease the burden on him. But when your three best players are getting closer to 40 the problem is magnified three-fold. Finding diamonds in the rough doesn’t elevate you, it just slows the rate you’d be taking on water in such a scenario.
Basically, the front office has to pull off some offseason miracles and simply find a way to infuse more higher upside talent period.
Umm…You need a bench. Signing 3 young superstars isn’t going to get you anywhere if you have to play them 48 minutes a game.
You do, but depth can only take you so far in its own right. And in the playoffs the rotations shrink and that depth becomes a little less valuable in terms of theoretical upside. Of course if the key guys get hurt depth becomes much more important, but then again any injury to one of the core players is a death sentence in its own right.
To put it simply, leaning too much toward one side is not ideal. And right now the Warriors are leaning a little heavy toward the ” good depth, not enough [healthy] talent” side with Father Time knocking.
The Warriors only have two players under contract after next season. A good draft in 26 and and free agency in 27 will change their fortunes.
For sure. Wasn’t talking about long-term, just this + next season. A lot can happen in two years.
Who been saying Curry is hurt a lot more than what been lead on? That happens to be me. I said from the start his knee will take a lot of time to heal. The way the warriors are playing it looks like they are tanking. Some experts are saying he will not play until the play in begins. They will probably drop tio the 10th spot unless amiracle happens and Grizzlies get on a long winng streak to pass them.
Did you also predict the Warriors to limp into the play-in?
I was hoping they could drop farther down out of play in so they coukld get a better draft pick. Unfortunately Memphis decided to tank too.
@arc89 you may be right that Step is more injured than we’re being told.
Another possibility is that Steph is ok but they want to finish 9th or 10th. That makes it 500% more likely they get a lottery pick than if they finish 7th or 8th.
If they finish 9th or 10th they must win 2 road games to advance to playoffs. Odds are very low they win 2 road games even with Steph.
Both games would be on the road which makes it even tougher. Still could happen. they need to get younger and more athletic. Also need a new coach Kerr offensive side of the ball is failing.
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.
Warriors are tanking. You can tell the way they are playing. I been saying for a while his knee is worse than they are saying.
Started in August man
I mean I myself would prefer to not have Kerr play too-small rotations that cause them to lose winnable games that sent them plummeting to the 9/10 seed when their talent level is more 4-6 seed, but it appears that because they know they are making the postseason, they are not worried about these regular season games at all and are just waiting for Steph and Kristaps to get up to speed.
GSW at full strength is dangerous whether you like it or not, they are a lot better team than their current record that their utterly incompetent coach (who always has relied on getting bailed out by Steph his entire career) has them at.
The problem is “GSW at full strength” is hard to rely on coming to fruition often enough moving forward.
Imo it’s a double-standard for people (not necessarily you) to look at the Mavs prior situation and say “They have to move AD and Kyrie. They can’t stay healthy and are overpaid as a result” but then look at the Warriors and go “This is fine. They just need all of their old players to be healthy and sufficiently rested at the same time”. Can’t have it both ways.
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?
Funny. The ones under 40, and 30, are missing a whole bunch of games also.
Huh? I don’t think those teams are trying to be competitive.
So, Boston, Cleveland, Denver, Philly, Detroit,Houston, etc. aren’t trying to be competitive.
The difference is those younger guys will heal quicker, bounce back quicker, be able to maintain their stamina longer, etc. It’s just science. Expecting old stars to survive a long regular season where they have to do some heavy lifting, then survive the grind of the postseason on top of staying healthy is a lot to ask for.
What is there to gain besides selling a few home playoff tickets if they make it anyways? Nobody is scared of this team. It’s like watching the basketball version of Lassie. Just shut Steph down and try to reload for offseason. Give the other guys some meaningful minutes.
Houston is scared. Houston is always scared of GS.
If Steph is healthy by April 1, the Warriors are a threat. It takes 1 game to prove it.
Lotto here we come!
Worst part is this team will finish mid (miss the playoffs) BUT not bad enough to get a great draft pick.
I have the attitude that it doesn’t matter where you pick, you just have to pick well.
So many guys chosen number three and number six have been busts yet guys 11 or 18 or even 24 have been all stars.
You play it out, you don’t tank, and you let the chips fall where they may.
The Warriors will make the play-in, that’s for sure because the teams below them are actually tanking.
If Steph plays and Porziņģis plays, and the other guys are playing well, who knows?
It’ll be fun to watch at the minimum.., then we worry about the draft and free agency and trades this summer.
Yup. Drafting later more often than not just means you have to work a bit harder to find the “hits” versus the higher probabilities associated witih the top few selections. Obviously the upside might not be the same either, but you can still find very good/borderline star players throughout the first round. That is something.
Retirement?
Yes, with a handle like that, I think you should. “Appendage whisperer” is not quite the image I want to have when reading comments on a warrior article.
But who am I? You do you and keep up the good work. Hope to read more of your comments in the future. Thank you.
As a gay man I take offense to this comment.
(I actually don’t, just messing with you lol).
You know I love you shea !!
Its going to be so funny when the Warriors click in April and suddenly become contenders, yall have been DYING to make the Curry Domination Era end, but you are wrong. You were wrong in 2015, 2022 and today. I will be laughing at all of you and I will NEVER say any of you Curry haters know ball. Ever.
And when this doesn’t happen, it’ll be everybody else’s fault.