SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stephen Curry and Draymond Inexperienced sat out Thursday in opposition to the Houston Rockets in hopes of returning for the second straight recreation when the Golden State Warriors host Minnesota on Friday evening.
Curry is affected by ache in each knees. He underwent an MRI scan on November 26 which revealed no structural injury. However he felt discomfort in his kneecaps and missed dealing with the Thunder a day later.
Inexperienced is sidelined with left calf tightness. With each starters out, Buddy Hield and Jonathan Kuminga, we deliberate to start out in opposition to the Rockets.
“I all the time take pleasure in these sorts of video games,” coach Steve Kerr stated. “Clearly I’d moderately have Steph and Draymond, however I prefer to see our different guys get alternatives.”
Golden State had misplaced 5 straight video games earlier than Thursday, all by 10 factors or fewer, because it started a stretch of three video games in 4 nights at Chase Middle.
The Warriors haven’t set a timetable for when Curry would possibly relaxation, although Kerr stated it is going to be a daily dialog with the teaching employees evaluating the two-time MVP’s bodily situation at 36 years previous and in his sixteenth NBA season.
Kerr is inspired by Curry’s look by way of agility, motion and exercise.
“Steph has been struggling together with his knee the previous couple of weeks with three out of 4 video games and he is in ache, we can’t play him,” Kerr stated. “We won’t play him each recreation throughout this stretch and anticipate him to do effectively. …We have now to assist him by way of the woods on this one. Identical factor with Draymond, in any other case you are chasing your tail after which guys find yourself lacking weeks at a time. It is nothing greater than the teaching employees that will get them by way of the woods and hopefully in the long term which means they find yourself enjoying extra video games than they’d have in any other case.
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