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Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors is a four-time NBA champion.
The Golden State Warriors aren’t in the NBA playoffs — yet. However, they do have a chance to get there despite a season marred by numerous crushing injuries.
After falling to the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday in the final contest of the year for both teams, the Dubs will have a couple days off to prepare for a rematch with the exact same team on the exact same floor in the No. 9 vs. No. 10 game of the league’s play-in tournament on the Western Conference side of the bracket.
The Dubs (37-45) will face the Clips (42-40) for the right to stay alive for a spot in the playoffs. The game will tip off at 7 p.m. WT/10 p.m. ET on Wednesday, April 15 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. It will air on Amazon Prime Video.
L.A. (23-18 at home) opened as 3.5-point favorites over Golden State (15-26 away).
The winner of that contest will travel to either Phoenix or Portland to take on the victor of the N0.7 vs. No. 8 game, which the Suns and Trail Blazers will play on Tuesday in Arizona. That contest will also air on Prime Video and begin at 7 p.m. WT/10 p.m. ET.
Draymond Green to Return to Action Against Clippers in NBA Play-In Tournament
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The Clippers bested the Warriors by a score of 115-110 on Sunday, as Steph Curry led the way with 24 points in 29 minutes played. Los Angeles captured the season series against Golden State by a tally of 3-1.
L.A. rested superstar Kawhi Leonard in its 82nd game of the year, while the Dubs held out Draymond Green. However, Green will be ready to play in his team’s elimination game in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening, per multiple reports.
Given the structure of the play-in tournament and the Warriors’ seeding at No. 10 overall in the West, Golden State has no chance of earning anything but the No. 8 seed once the playoffs begin. That will guarantee a matchup with the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder and reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
Warriors Won’t Have Jimmy Butler in Must-Win Showdown Against Clippers
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One player the Warriors will be without for the entirety of their postseason run, however long it lasts, is Jimmy Butler.
Butler made a brief on-court cameo Sunday during Curry’s warmup session, shooting a 3-point shot before hobbling back to the sideline with the rest of his teammates. Butler tore his ACL in mid-January and has been out ever since.
His injury was just the first in a series of health issues that have plagued the Warriors all season long.
“Missed Jimmy with a season-ending injury for half of the season, lost [Moses] Moody with a season-ender more recently, and missed Steph for a chunk of the year,” TheWarriorsTalk X account summed up the major injury issues Golden State has faced across the 2025-26 campaign. “Still have a chance at landing in the playoffs, but they’ll need to work for it.”
Also in and out of the lineup has been big man Kristaps Porzingis, whom Golden State acquired ahead of the NBA trade deadline in a deal with the Atlanta Hawks.
Porzingis should be good to go on Wednesday after scoring 12 points and adding eight rebounds in 24 minutes of action Sunday.
Max Dible covers the NFL, NBA and MLB for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. He covered local and statewide news as a reporter for West Hawaii Today and served as news director for BigIslandNow.com and Pacific Media Group’s family of Big Island radio stations before joining Heavy. More about Max Dible
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