Stephen Curry’s recovery from a knee injury will extend at least into next week, the Golden State Warriors announced Friday night.
And Warriors coach Steve Kerr admitted the team doesn’t have much time left to get him up to speed ahead of the postseason.
Advertisement
The Warriors said on Saturday, March 21, that Curry — who has missed nearly two months with patella-femoral pain syndrome and bone bruising in his right knee — had been evaluated and will be incorporated into live action and team practices in the coming days. Curry, however, was unable to scrimmage according to ESPN’s Shams Charania and will now be re-evaluated next week.
Draft your Yahoo Fantasy Baseball team for the 2026 MLB Season
That means Curry is scheduled to miss Sunday’s game in Denver against the Nuggets after not playing in Friday’s home win against the Washington Wizards. That will bring his total to 25 straight missed games since he left Golden State’s Jan. 30 game against the Detroit Pistons with soreness in his knee.
The Warriors will have only seven games left in the regular season after Sunday. They almost certainly will begin the postseason in the Western Conference play-in tournament.
“We’re not bringing him back [only] for the play-in game,” Kerr said, according to ESPN’s Anthony Slater. “He’d need to play some games. We need to give him a runway if this is going to work. And we are running out of games.”
Depleted Warriors face tough road ahead
With Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody already out for the season, the Warriors are facing another disappointing year with their aging core. The team currently holds the final play-in spot of the Western Conference at 36-38 and is in no danger of falling lower, while being a half-game back from the eighth-place Portland Trail Blazers for the better play-in game.
Advertisement
Even if the Warriors make it through the play-in tournament, their reward would either be the Oklahoma City Thunder or San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the playoffs. That has left them with little incentive to push Curry more than needed for the rest of the season.