{"id":578388,"date":"2026-02-03T00:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/578388\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:08:19","slug":"warriors-talk-runners-knee-kuminga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/578388\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors talk runner’s knee, Kuminga"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Warriors will be without their top player for their final game before Thursday afternoon\u2019s trade deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Steph Curry was ruled out of Tuesday\u2019s matchup with the 76ers<\/a>, which came as little surprise after the team diagnosed him with patellofemoral pain syndrome over the weekend. Known more commonly as \u201crunner\u2019s knee,\u201d the only remedy for that soreness is rest.<\/p>\n

\u201c(When he returns) will totally be up to (team doctor) Rick (Celebrini) and Steph,\u201d Warriors coach Steve Kerr said after Monday\u2019s practice. \u201cAs soon as Rick tells me he can play, he\u2019ll play, but they\u2019re working together every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curry left Friday\u2019s game against the Pistons midway through the third quarter and did not return.<\/p>\n

With the All-Star game taking place in about two weeks, Curry\u2019s status for his 12th appearance in that star-studded exhibition is also in doubt.<\/p>\n

After taking on the 76ers, the Warriors will travel to Phoenix to play the Suns on Thursday. After that, Golden State stays on the road and will play at the Lakers in Los Angeles on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Joining Curry on the inactive list is Jonathan Kuminga, who will miss a fifth consecutive game with knee soreness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got some on-court work in before practice, but the injury\u2019s at a point, the recovery\u2019s at a point where he\u2019s not yet ready to go live,\u201d Kerr said.<\/p>\n

Kerr also said he has been in communication with Jimmy Butler since the star tore his ACL, but that he was not at liberty to share details about when Butler will undergo surgery.<\/p>\n

Warriors public relations director Raymond Ridder later said that Butler\u2019s agent Bernie Lee will determine when more information will be released on the procedure.<\/p>\n

Melton\u2019s trajectory<\/p>\n

\"GoldenGolden State Warriors\u2019 De\u2019Anthony Melton (8) rolls off the court against the Detroit Pistons in the first quarter at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 30, 2026. (Shae Hammond\/Bay Area News Group)\u00a0<\/p>\n

De\u2019Anthony Melton has been, arguably, the team\u2019s second-best player since Butler was lost for the season. He has averaged 14.5 points per game since the start of January, chipping in 2.2 assists while scoring at a 56.9 effective FG% and being one of the few Warriors capable of creating pressure on a defense off a live dribble.<\/p>\n

What has made his impact even more remarkable is that the 27-year-old is coming off ACL rehab and has been confined to a 25-minute limit since late December. That is actually an increase from the first few weeks of his season, when he was allowed to play on 20 minutes or less a night after debuting in early December.<\/p>\n

So given the team\u2019s shortage of perimeter scorers, could the team give Melton a starter\u2019s workload of 30 MPG or more? Steve Kerr hopes that will eventually be the case, but says the team is in no rush to make that happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI talked to Rick (Celebrini) about that the other day, and he said that\u2019s something we can aim for, but not yet,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cA two-year absence means a very slow ramp up for that, and I think Rick, the staff and Melt have handled it perfectly. See where he is now compared to six weeks ago when he came back, and it\u2019s pretty dramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Warriors will be without their top player for their final game before Thursday afternoon\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,159,160,479,164,4025,4024,155,867,165,6,161,162,163,66,932,255,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-578388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-golden-state","12":"tag-golden-state-warriors","13":"tag-goldenstate","14":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","15":"tag-inside-sports","16":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","17":"tag-latest-headlines","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-peninsula","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-san-francisco-county","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-steph-curry","24":"tag-warriors","25":"tag-warriors-hq"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578388","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=578388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}