{"id":512759,"date":"2026-01-02T23:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/512759\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:40:13","slug":"injury-notes-warriors-young-lavine-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/512759\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Notes: Warriors, Young, LaVine, Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"

After previously announcing<\/a> that Draymond Green<\/a> would miss Friday\u2019s matchup with the defending champion Thunder, the Warriors have also ruled out Stephen Curry<\/a> (left ankle sprain) and Jimmy Butler<\/a> (illness), per Anthony Slater and Shams Charania of ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first half of a back-to-back set, and the Warriors are hopeful that all three players will be back on Saturday vs. Utah, according to Slater and Charania. It\u2019s also worth noting that Friday\u2019s game will be nationally televised, which means Curry and Butler couldn\u2019t be rested without legitimate ailments, since they qualify as \u201cstars<\/a>\u201d under the NBA\u2019s player participation policy<\/a>. Green, who doesn\u2019t meet the star criteria, is listed on the injury report as out due to \u201crest.\u201d<\/p>\n

With three starters sidelined, forward Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> is expected to play on Friday for the first time in over two weeks, head coach Steve Kerr said today during a radio appearance on 95.7 The Game (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Here are a few more injury updates from around the NBA:<\/p>\n

Hawks guard Trae Young<\/a> (right quad contusion) has been ruled out for a third consecutive game and won\u2019t be available on Friday in New York, tweets<\/a> Brad Rowland of Locked on Hawks. Young was initially listed as questionable, which suggests he\u2019s considered day-to-day and should probably return soon, barring a setback.
\nKings guard Zach LaVine<\/a> will miss a ninth straight game on Friday vs. Phoenix due to a left ankle sprain. Asked on Thursday if he had any updates on LaVine\u2019s status, head coach Doug Christie had little to offer, telling reporters there\u2019s \u201cnothing new\u201d (Twitter video link<\/a> via James Ham of The Kings Beat).
\nThe Pistons were without Tobias Harris<\/a> (left hip sprain) and Caris LeVert<\/a> (left knee inflammation) for Thursday\u2019s loss to Miami (Twitter<\/a> links<\/a> via Omari Sankofa II of The Detroit Free Press and Hunter Patterson of The Athletic). Head coach J.B. Bickerstaff said that LeVert\u2019s injury, which has kept him on the shelf for the past two games, is one they\u2019ve been managing all season and that it \u201cflared up on him\u201d this week. As for Harris, Bickerstaff suggested he would have more info on the forward\u2019s prognosis within the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After previously announcing that Draymond Green would miss Friday\u2019s matchup with the defending champion Thunder, the Warriors have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,3882,296,188,3860,200,313,867,6,297,573,933,494,3212],"class_list":{"0":"post-512759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-caris-levert","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-pistons","12":"tag-detroitpistons","13":"tag-draymond-green","14":"tag-jimmy-butler","15":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-pistons","18":"tag-stephen-curry","19":"tag-tobias-harris","20":"tag-trae-young","21":"tag-zach-lavine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115828151133950557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512759","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=512759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}