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Warriors Notes: Kuminga, Jackson-Davis, Butler, Rotations

May 9th, 2025 at 9:15pm CST by Eli Cohen

As the Warriors navigate the loss of Stephen Curry to a “tricky” hamstring strain, head coach Steve Kerr is going to have to reshape the game plan on the fly. That includes opening up minutes to players who might not have gotten as many opportunities otherwise.

“There’s no Steph. It’s a completely different team,” Kerr said, per The Athletic’s Anthony Slater (via Twitter). He pointed at two players in particular who will play a part in the team’s Game 3 approach: Jonathan Kuminga and Trayce Jackson-Davis.

“Everything has to be about finding a new formula and [Kuminga] is absolutely a part of that formula,” he said.

Kuminga only played 50 total minutes in the Warriors’ seven-game series against the Rockets, but with Curry down, he logged 26 minutes in Game 2 against the Timberwolves, scoring 18 points on 11 shots. With few offensive options outside of Jimmy Butler and Brandin Podziemski, Kuminga’s ability to score and pressure the rim will be important to keeping the offense running.

When it comes to Jackson-Davis, Kerr said, “[He] showed he can be effective against this team,” referencing the second-year center’s 15-point, six-rebound performance in just 19 minutes in Game 2. Jackson-Davis has only played more than six minutes twice in this postseason, but Curry’s injury means the team is leaning more into its defensive personnel.

Here are more Warriors notes:

  • The Warriors have spent years trying to mold Kuminga into the team-first player they want him to be, with mixed results, but now they’ll have to rely on him playing like the star-in-the-making he considers himself, writes The Athletic’s Marcus Thompson II. As long as Curry is out, Kuminga has a runway to prove himself both now and for the future, with restricted free agency around the corner. “This has not been an easy stretch for (him),” Kerr said after Game 2. “He really came out there and did a great job today and showed what he’s made of. Obviously, he’ll be back out there in Game 3. We’re gonna need him.”
  • Jimmy Butler admitted after Game 2 that he’s still feeling the effects of the hard fall he took in the first round against Houston, which resulted in him being diagnosed with a pelvic contusion (Twitter video link via Slater). Butler has shot 39.4% from the field through two games against the Wolves, though in typical fashion, his contributions extend across the box score — he has averaged nine rebounds and six assists per night.
  • The Warriors are the first team in NBA history to use 14 players in the first half of a playoff game, Slater writes for The Athletic. This was part of a broader push from Kerr and the coaching staff to throw different things at the wall to see what sticks while not overtaxing their remaining stars. “We went into the game thinking we’d play a lot of people short-burst minutes, try to protect Jimmy and Draymond,” Kerr said. “They’ve been playing huge minutes every other day, flying all over the country. We had to weigh that.” That approach included going away from the struggling Quinten Post and Moses Moody, whom the team had turned to in the previous series, in favor of Kuminga and Jackson-Davis. Expect Kerr to continue searching for combinations and riding hot hands as the team looks to manufacture offense and stay alive until Curry can return.
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Warriors Notes: Butler, Lineup Changes, Looney, Kuminga, Game 7

May 3rd, 2025 at 11:00pm CST by Arthur Hill

The Warriors missed two chances to close out their first-round series with the Rockets, but they remain confident going into Sunday’s Game 7, writes Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN. Golden State was blown out in Game 5 and watched Houston pull away in the fourth quarter of Game 6, but there were no signs of panic in the locker room after Friday’s loss.

“We’re good. We’re smiling,” Jimmy Butler said. “We’re listening to our music, celebrating life. We’re ready to compete. We were ready to compete tonight. Things didn’t go our way. OK, we’re going to be ready to compete on Sunday. We’re going to make the game go our way.”

The Warriors believe their experience in high-stakes games will ultimately decide the series, Youngmisuk adds. Stephen Curry and Draymond Green have a 3-2 record in seventh games during their time together, with the last one coming in 2023 when they won handily at Sacramento. Butler has been in four Game 7s, going 2-2.

Many of the Rockets’ core players are going through their first playoff experience, but Youngmisuk notes that they have some veterans who’ve been in this situation before. Jeff Green, Steven Adams, Fred VanVleet and Aaron Holiday have collectively been in 10 seventh games.

There’s more on the Warriors:

  • Steve Kerr made two changes to his starting lineup before Game 6 — replacing Moses Moody and Brandin Podziemski with Buddy Hield and Gary Payton II — and he might consider revising it again on Sunday, according to Anthony Slater of The Athletic. Slater explains that Golden State is trying to get Alperen Sengun involved in actions involving Curry, but the zones Houston has been employing are making it easier for Sengun to avoid that matchup. Slater suggests that Kevon Looney could see more time to battle against Adams after playing just two minutes on Friday.
  • Kerr said putting Jonathan Kuminga back into the rotation is “100 percent on the table” for Game 7 (Twitter video link from Slater). Kuminga has made just two appearances in the series, logging 26 minutes in a Game 2 loss and 17 minutes in a Game 3 win.
  • Butler dismissed concerns that the veteran Warriors are being worn down by a younger, more athletic opponent, per Ann Killion of The San Francisco Chronicle. “We’ll be all right,” Butler said. “I’m 35, I can’t remember how old Steph is (37), Dray is 35, too. Everybody’s got to travel the same distance. Ain’t like we’re going to go around the world and land in Houston and they got only a five-minute flight to Houston. They’ve got to travel just like we’ve got to travel.”
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Warriors Notes: Kerr, Curry, Kuminga, Moody, Dunleavy

April 19th, 2025 at 11:00pm CST by Arthur Hill

The Warriors got more than just a playoff berth by winning their play-in game against Memphis on Tuesday, writes Sam Gordon of The San Francisco Chronicle. They also ensured themselves of four days of much-needed rest before their first-round series begins Sunday night at Houston. Coach Steve Kerr said the break is welcome after weeks of fighting to earn a top-six spot and avoid the play-in tournament altogether.

“We desperately needed it,” Kerr said. “I’ve never seen a schedule like what we’ve faced, particularly with the stakes. Every game was meaningful — the two-week road trip followed by a back-to-back-to-back.”

Gordon points out that Golden State is the third-oldest team in the league and has five rotation players in their 30s. A loss on Tuesday would have meant a home game Friday night against Dallas, followed by a flight to Oklahoma City for a meeting tomorrow with the West’s top-seeded team.

“Rest is one thing, but not all rest is created equal in the sense of — you have to be intentional about how you use the days,” Stephen Curry said. “That doesn’t mean you’re not doing anything. You’re priming yourself. Weight room. Mentally. Skill-wise, getting your work in. So, it just helps to not have to prepare for a game. You realize you’ve been going for … six, seven months and the last two of it were really intense so it’s nice just to take a good pause.”

There’s more on the Warriors:

  • Jonathan Kuminga has enjoyed some of his best games against the Rockets, but there’s no guarantee he’ll have a role in the first-round series, Gordon adds in a separate story. Kuminga was kept on the bench for the play-in game and Sunday’s crucial season finale against the Clippers, and his playing time has been scaled back since his 31-game absence with a sprained ankle. Gordon notes that Kuminga is averaging 21.3 points and 6.8 rebounds per game against Houston this season while shooting 50.8% from the field and 42.1% from three-point range. “He’ll contribute,” Draymond Green said. “He’s great. He’s getting his work in. That’s all you can do in that situation is get your work in. And he’ll be meaningful for us in this series. I have zero doubt about that. The challenge for him is to stay mentally engaged, as it is for anyone in that situation, but I have zero doubt in my mind that he’s going to help us in this series.”
  • Moses Moody worked his way into a valuable defensive role by embracing assistant coach Jerry Stackhouse‘s philosophy of attacking opposing ball-handlers, according to Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic. It’s a change from Moody’s first three NBA seasons when his playing time was limited because he was viewed as a defensive liability.
  • In an interview with Mark Medina of Sportskeeda, Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. talks about how the team has changed since the Jimmy Butler trade, Green’s case for Defensive Player of the Year honors, and a few other topics.
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Warriors Notes: Starting Five, Hield, Kuminga, Butler, Curry

February 23rd, 2025 at 1:43pm CST by Luke Adams

In their last game before the All-Star break, the Warriors used their 33rd starting lineup of the season: Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green, Moses Moody, and Brandin Podziemski.

The group helped lead the team to a road win in Houston and earned another start coming out of the break on Friday in Sacramento. After Golden State registered a blowout victory in that game, head coach Steve Kerr said he plans to stick with this starting five despite its lack of size, per Anthony Slater of The Athletic.

“I hope so. Because we’ve had a million different starting lineups this year. It’d be nice to stick with this for the rest of the season,” Kerr said. “I think it’s the best two-way starting group we can put on the floor. You get Moses’ shooting, you get BP’s play-making to go with Steph and Jimmy. Then Draymond and Jimmy at the five and four defensively behind the play. We lack size, but we have a lot of brainpower back there.”

Butler, the tallest player in the lineup at 6’7″, admitted that it’s “definitely” the smallest starting five he has been part of, Slater writes. Still, the Warriors’ big trade-deadline acquisition is confident in the quintet’s ability to make it work.

“I like it,” Butler said. “I do. You’ve just got some feisty individuals out there that’s fighting, scrapping on both sides of the ball, sharing the ball, scoring, getting stops. Small or not, we’re getting it done.”

Here’s more on the Warriors:

  • Buddy Hield has started 22 games for Golden State this season, including 12 in a row from January 22 to February 12. He has returned to the second unit following Kerr’s latest lineup change, but the Warriors’ coach said the veteran sharpshooter remains “a huge part of what we’re doing,” according to Sam Gordon of The San Francisco Chronicle. “The way we’re starting is not a reflection of his play,” Kerr said prior to Friday’s win, in which Hield scored 22 points on 8-of-11 shooting in 26 minutes off the bench.
  • Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga, who has been out since January 4 due to a right ankle sprain, participated in his first 5-on-5, full-contact scrimmage on Saturday, according to Kerr (Twitter video link via Slater). While Kuminga appears to be nearing a return, he won’t play today vs. Dallas or on Tuesday vs. Charlotte, Kerr said. The plan is to reevaluate him prior to the five-game road trip that begins on Thursday in Orlando.
  • In another story for The San Francisco Chronicle, Gordon notes that Butler’s presence puts Golden State in position to run an efficient offense during the minutes when Curry is off the floor. “It’s huge, just having another number one option out there so when Steph goes off the floor, we still have a number one option that we can play through,” Green said on Friday. “He doesn’t shoot much. … He’s just going to make the right play. He’s going to put guys in position to be successful and the defense has to react to him, or he gets easy buckets.”
  • The Warriors are starting to “figure out a good chemistry” with Butler, according to Curry, who praised his new teammate for his underrated passing ability, per Grant Afseth of Athlon Sports.
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NBA Announces Three-Point Contest, Skills Challenge Participants

February 7th, 2025 at 3:06pm CST by Luke Adams

The NBA has officially announced the participants for the All-Star Saturday festivities in San Francisco on February 15, revealing today (via Twitter) which players will compete in the three-point contest and the skills challenge. Here are the details:

Three-Point Contest:

Among this year’s participants, Powell (43.1%), Garland (42.9%), and Johnson (41.7%) have been the most accurate three-point shooters so far this season, while Herro (39.3% on 9.7 attempts per game) has been the most prolific.

Lillard won the event in both 2023 and 2024 and will be looking to become the first player since Craig Hodges in 1992 to claim the three-point title for a third consecutive year. Larry Bird was also a three-time winner, having achieved the feat in the first three years the NBA held the event (1986-88).

Hield is the only other player in this year’s field to have won the contest before, having done so in 2020. The Warriors wing will be the home team’s representative next Saturday.

Skills Challenge:

It appears the NBA will be tweaking the format of the skills challenge again in 2025, with the event set to feature four teams of two players apiece instead of three players per team.

Mobley was part of the Cavs team that won the event in 2022, along with Jarrett Allen and Garland. He’ll be teaming up with Mitchell this time around.

The NBA also officially confirmed the participants of the dunk contest earlier this week (Twitter link). Those four players, who had been previously reported, are Bulls rookie Matas Buzelis, Spurs rookie Stephon Castle, Bucks guard Andre Jackson, and Magic two-way guard Mac McClung.

Like Lillard in the three-point contest, McClung will be looking to three-peat in his event next Saturday night.

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Warriors May Wait Until Summer To Pursue Major Trade

January 20th, 2025 at 11:02am CST by Arthur Hill

The Warriors may be active on the trade market before the deadline, but they’re not expected to pursue a major deal until the offseason, writes Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN. Two Western Conference executives who talked to Youngmisuk believe Golden State will save its most valuable trade pieces for the summer in hopes of a making significant move.

For now, a more likely target is Bulls center Nikola Vucevic, who would provide a second reliable scorer to team with Stephen Curry. Vucevic is making $20MM, and the Warriors hope they might be able to land him in exchange for expiring deals. Both rival executives expect the team to continue exploring its options until closer to February 6, rather than making a deal right away.

Youngmusik points out that Golden State’s top trade pieces are Andrew Wiggins‘ $26MM contract, along with young players Jonathan Kuminga, Moses Moody and Brandin Podziemski. More likely to be moved now are the expiring contracts of Gary Payton II ($9.13MM) and Kevon Looney ($8MM), along with draft assets (the Warriors have three tradable first-round picks and two second-rounders.

Youngmisuk reveals that CEO Joe Lacob met with general manager Mike Dunleavy to discuss the team’s options after a January 7 loss to Miami. One rival executive described the team as “frustrated” as it has fallen down the standings after a 12-3 start.

The executives also told Youngmisuk that if the Warriors aren’t in a better position by the trade deadline, they might consider some cost-cutting deals to reduce the size of their tax bill. Youngmisuk adds that Golden State typically isn’t active around the deadline, with only two significant trades during the Curry era.

Curry, who has been playing through thumb and knee pain this season, said he can accept a quiet deadline as long as he knows the front office is making an effort to improve the roster.

“[We’re] trying to be a realistic threat in a playoffs series,” he said. “If Mike calls and says, ‘Hey, this is an opportunity to do X, Y, Z,’ I give my opinion. My hope is that [if there’s no action at the deadline], it’s not because of a lack of effort. If we don’t have a chance to get better, my whole thing is I want to win, and whatever that means, all efforts are pointed towards that, then I can kind of live with whatever happens.”

The Warriors tried to get involved in major deals last summer, making offers for Lauri Markkanen before he re-signed with Utah and Paul George before he opted out of his contract with the Clippers. In both cases, it would have meant parting with Kuminga and maybe Podziemski, which Golden State wasn’t ready to do.

They were one of the first teams to make a significant in-season deal, picking up Dennis Schröder from Brooklyn in mid-December, but the veteran guard has struggled badly with his shot and hasn’t been able to stop the team’s long decline. It’s possible that Schröder could be moved again before the deadline.

Curry, Draymond Green and coach Steve Kerr have all made recent public statements cautioning against the dangers of a panic move. They seem content to wait until summer for a roster overhaul if necessary, and in the meantime they’re confident about their postseason chances no matter who they have to face.

“Hundred percent feel like we can beat anybody in a playoff series because we’ve done it,” Curry said. “We have the know-how, and we just want to be able to answer that question with how we’re playing and not imagine. … We’ve been there. We know how to do it. Just feel like we can do it again.”

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Western Notes: Murray, Moody, Powell, Williamson, Missi

January 19th, 2025 at 7:09pm CST by Dana Gauruder

Jamal Murray isn’t fazed by criticism. The Nuggets guard signed a four-year, maximum-salary contract extension in September and feels it comes with the territory, he told Bennett Durando of the Denver Post.

“I’m totally ready for it,” Murray said. “That’s why I literally signed up for it.”

Murray understands that with the big contract numbers comes increased scrutiny. He’s endured a roller coaster season thus far and admits he hasn’t played up to par.

“I think I deserve it, to a certain extent,” he said. “So I’m not gonna complain about it. And that’s what people do. They’re gonna talk about what they see. And if they don’t see me performing the way they want me to perform as a fan, they’re gonna let me hear it, or tweet about it or whatever they’re doing. … I mean, I admit I haven’t been playing well. So it’s not like it’s a surprise to me to hear it from everybody else if I’m saying it as well.”

We have more from the Western Conference:

  • In his fourth NBA season, the Warriors’ Moses Moody may have found his niche as an undersized power forward, The Athletic’s Anthony Slater writes. The 6’5″ Moody has played 54 minutes the past two games, mostly at power forward, and could see a lot more time there in the near future, as Draymond Green is expected to miss multiple games with a calf strain. “Moses seems to really thrive at the (power forward),” coach Steve Kerr said. “That’s his spot. He’s comfortable using his strength and the ability to stretch the floor.”
  • Norman Powell is a candidate to make the All-Star reserves in his 10th season and the Clippers swingman is gratified how this season has played out thus far, he told Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times. He’s averaging a career-high 23.7 points per game. “It was always an individual goal,” Powell said. “It was, ‘I want to be an All-Star. I want to be on that stage. I want to be in the same position that I saw my favorite players being in growing up. And honestly it’s surreal. … It’s been 10 years and I kind of take it as a little shot or a little chip on my shoulder when everybody is talking about, ‘Oh, this is his 10th year in the league and this and that.’ It just adds to the beauty of being mentioned now as an All-Star, this being my 10th year.”
  • The Pelicans could be without two frontcourt starters against Utah on Monday, both due to non-COVID illnesses. Rookie Yves Missi, who did not play Friday against the Jazz, and Zion Williamson are both listed as questionable, according to a team press release. Williamson has averaged 20.8 points, 8.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists in four games since returning from a hamstring strain.
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Injury Notes: Vanderbilt, Warriors, Agbaji, Richardson

January 10th, 2025 at 3:01pm CST by Rory Maher

Lakers forward Jarred Vanderbilt hasn’t played an NBA game in more than 11 months, with his last appearance coming in Boston on February 1, 2024. However, he continues to inch closer to making his season debut, having been assigned to the South Bay Lakers for a practice this morning and subsequently being recalled to practice with the NBA club (Twitter links via Dave McMenamin of ESPN).

Vanderbilt, who made just 29 appearances in 2023/24 due to a heel injury, underwent surgeries on both of his feet during the offseason, then experienced a setback (fluid build-up in his left knee) in early December. He’s expected to suit up at some point in January, though he’ll be on a minutes restriction when he’s available.

Here are a few more injury notes from around the NBA:

  • The Warriors will be shorthanded again on Friday at Indiana. Stephen Curry (knee management) and Draymond Green (back) have both been ruled out for the second end of a back-to-back, tweets Anthony Slater of The Athletic. Andrew Wiggins (personal reasons), Jonathan Kuminga (ankle sprain), Brandin Podziemski (right abdominal) and Gary Payton II (left calf strain) will also be sidelined. On a brighter note, fourth-year wing Moses Moody is probable Friday after missing Thursday’s game due to patellar tendinopathy in his left knee, per the league’s official injury report. Center Trayce Jackson-Davis is questionable due to a left eye contusion.
  • Raptors wing Ochai Agbaji missed his first game of the season on Thursday in Cleveland due to a left hip pointer. He’s also doubtful to suit up for Saturday’s matchup in Detroit, per Blake Murphy of Sportsnet.ca (Twitter link). A former lottery pick, Agbaji will be eligible for a rookie scale extension in the offseason.
  • Heat guard/forward Josh Richardson was technically active for Thursday’s win in Utah, according to Ira Winderman of The South Florida Sun Sentinel (Twitter link), though the impending free agent didn’t receive any playing time. Richardson has been plagued by a heel injury for much of the 2024/25 season, only making eight appearances to this point and last playing on November 18.
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Warriors Notes: Losing Skid, Trade Possibilities, Curry, Green

January 8th, 2025 at 11:01pm CST by Arthur Hill

The Warriors were hoping to snap out of their long slump Tuesday night against another team in turmoil, writes Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN. Instead they lost by 16 points at home to a Miami squad playing without the suspended Jimmy Butler and are left with questions about how to stop a downturn that began before Thanksgiving.

“When shots are falling, everything’s nice, everything’s great,” Trayce Jackson-Davis said. “We can’t be front-runners; we got to dig in, we got to find our soul. That’s what Draymond (Green) kind of said. It was our soul that we’ve lost. We’ve lost our spirit, and we got to get that back and we got to play tough basketball. We got to play with confidence, stick shots and play hard on the defensive end of the floor, and I think if we do that, we’ll find our way back.”

The Warriors were doing those things early in the season when they got off to a 12-3 start and looked like one of the best teams in the Western Conference. They’re just 6-15 since then amid injuries, rotation changes and a mid-December trade for Dennis Schröder that failed to spark a turnaround.

At 18-18, Golden State is barely holding on to the final play-in spot and is about to head to Detroit, Indiana, Toronto and Minnesota on a tough four-game road trip. Coach Steve Kerr said the team is facing a “crisis of confidence” and needs to play with more energy than it did on Tuesday.

“We feel deflated right now,” he said. “And there’s no room for feeling sorry for ourselves in the NBA, in life in general. We can’t let disappointment dictate our approach to the game. We have to do the opposite. We have to bring more fire. We have to out-compete our opponents when things aren’t going our way. And that was what was most disappointing tonight, was I just felt like everybody was down and we didn’t have a competitive spirit. And if you don’t have that, you’ve got nothing.”

There’s more on the Warriors:

  • Kerr mentioned “personnel” as a reason why his team doesn’t get many easy baskets or shoot a lot of free throws, according to Anthony Slater of The Athletic. However, he declined to answer questions about whether there’s any urgency to shake up the roster before the trade deadline. “Those are questions for (general manager) Mike (Dunleavy),” Kerr told reporters. “I love our guys. I love coaching these guys. I believe in them. I’m going to keep doing that. Those are front office questions.” Kerr said over the weekend that he prefers to see the current roster stay together for at least a month or so.
  • The Warriors need to make a trade “in the worst way” and it may take three of them to fix the roster, contends Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic. He adds that Kerr has already tried numerous lineup combinations, but the team doesn’t show the same fire it has become known for throughout his tenure on the bench and the organization is in danger of losing the culture it has created.
  • Golden State might be shorthanded as the road trip begins Thursday in Detroit, notes Sam Gordon of The San Francisco Chronicle. Stephen Curry is listed as questionable for the first game of a back-to-back due to left knee inflammation. Also considered questionable are Green (left ankle sprain), Schröder (left hip contusion) and Moses Moody (left knee soreness).
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Warriors’ Kuminga Starts Over Green; Wiggins Exits With Injury

December 7th, 2024 at 8:18am CST by Tristan Tucker

As we relayed on Friday, the Warriors continue to seek, whether internally or externally, another star player to pair with Stephen Curry. Golden State wants to give Jonathan Kuminga a chance to show whether he can become that star, so with Curry and Draymond Green returning from injury in Friday’s game, the team moved Green to the bench with Kuminga starting at power forward.

According to The Athletic’s Anthony Slater (Twitter link), the Warriors would like to keep Kuminga in the starting lineup and Green on the bench in the near future. Head coach Steve Kerr said the goal is to maximize Kuminga and not wear down the 34-year-old Green.

For his part, Green expressed support for the move. The four-time All-Star said he isn’t sure how long this particular lineup change will last, but that he wants to fully uplift Kuminga if the franchise thinks he’s a star-caliber player and that this is the best way to maximize his talents moving forward, ESPN’s Ohm Youngmisuk writes.

“I don’t necessarily look at it as like this demotion,” Green said. “I’m a starter in the NBA. I know that. But if it’s something to try to help this team win, I’m always going to be for it. I hate losing. I care about this organization, and I know a lot of people in this organization, including myself, think he’s next. And so if he’s next, at some point we got to see it.”

When former Warriors forward David Lee got injured during the 2014/15 season, Green took over for him as a starter, taking off and eventually helping Golden State claim a title that year. Green said he’s not interested in acting as a roadblock for Kuminga’s potential success in the league.

“I am a product of my vet being willing to take a backseat for me,” Green said. “So you got to give back what came to you. That’s what this is about.”

The calculus for what exactly Golden State’s rotation looks like is somewhat in question after starter Andrew Wiggins and reserve Moses Moody both exited the game with injuries. Wiggins limped to the locker room early in the third quarter before eventually being ruled out with an ankle injury. Moody is dealing with knee soreness. Regardless of how the starting unit looks until the team is healthier, the plan is for Green to close out halves at center.

One game after recording a season-high 33 points against Houston, Kuminga scored just 13 on Friday against Minnesota, though he was the team’s second-highest scorer behind Curry, with the Warriors getting to just 90 points on the night.

Kuminga is averaging 14.8 points and 4.2 rebounds per game this year while shooting 44.8% from the field and 31.1% from three. Those numbers are down from last season, but he’s averaging 19.2 PPG in his last five games, four of which were starts.

“For us to be good, you saw flashes against Houston, we need him to be his best version,” Curry said, per Youngmisuk.

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