In what will be the Golden State Warriors\u2019 opening game of the NBA Cup against the Denver Nuggets, they will find themselves with a monumental mountain to climb.<\/p>\n
Per ESPN\u2019s Anthony Slater, Warriors superstar Steph Curry will not be available against the Nuggets due to an illness that \u201cworsened\u201d yesterday morning. Curry was visibly struggling with colds and coughs after their win against the Phoenix Suns last Tuesday and was ruled out in yesterday\u2019s loss to the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n
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Jimmy Butler, who was also out against the Kings due to a lower back strain, is questionable against the Nuggets, while Draymond Green is probable.<\/p>\n
It is quite obvious how huge Curry being out against the Nuggets is. It took Curry scoring 42 points in their first contest for the Warriors to win in overtime, despite Aaron Gordon\u2019s career-high 50 points on a scorching 10-of-11 clip on threes; without him, the Warriors will find it extremely difficult to overcome Nikola Joki\u0107, Jamal Murray, Gordon, and co. The difficulty level further increases if Butler also has to miss tomorrow\u2019s game, which will be in Denver \u2014 a difficult place to play in for the Nuggets\u2019 opponents due to the high altitude.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow will also mark the Warriors\u2019 10th game in 18 nights, which has already included three sets of back-to-backs, with two more sets coming up in the following two weeks. The schedule hasn\u2019t been kind to a team that is considered the second-oldest in the league (behind the Los Angeles Clippers) by average age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what will be the Golden State Warriors\u2019 opening game of the NBA Cup against the Denver Nuggets,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[877,4980,7,301,187,3943,200,164,762,313,135,6,253,302,472,477,932,859],"class_list":{"0":"post-394143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-aaron-gordon","9":"tag-anthony-slater","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-denver","12":"tag-denver-nuggets","13":"tag-denvernuggets","14":"tag-draymond-green","15":"tag-golden-state-warriors","16":"tag-jamal-murray","17":"tag-jimmy-butler","18":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nikola-jokic","21":"tag-nuggets","22":"tag-phoenix-suns","23":"tag-sacramento-kings","24":"tag-steph-curry","25":"tag-the-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}