Welcome to February Daily Topics at Golden State of Mind. A question (almost) every day this month to give the community a prompt to talk about!<\/p>\n
The All-Star break is mercifully here. The Golden State Warriors limped to the break \u2014 both literally and figuratively \u2014 with a team in dire need of a rest and a reset. They\u2019re in eighth place in the Western Conference and very comfortably in a play-in spot, but they\u2019re just 4-7 since Jimmy Butler III suffered a season-ending ACL injury. Steph Curry hasn\u2019t played in a while, and Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is has yet to play for the team following a deadline-deal trade.<\/p>\n
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So the All-Star break \u2014 and the week off from playing basketball \u2014 is certainly well timed for a Warriors squad that hopes to get Curry and Porzi\u0146\u0123is back for Thursday\u2019s return to action against the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, we get non-Warriors basketball, in the form of the All-Star Game, and all the All-Star festivities.<\/p>\n
The Warriors, however, won\u2019t be partaking in the fun.<\/p>\n
Golden State has no participants in Friday\u2019s Castrol Rising Stars game, as neither Quinten Post nor Will Richard were selected for the annual rookie-sophomore showdown. Despite being the team that everyone associates with shooting (and for good reason), the Warriors won\u2019t have a representative at Saturday\u2019s State Farm 3-Point Contest, which features the surprising inclusion of Oakland\u2019s own Damian Lillard. They also won\u2019t have a player at the return of the Kia Shooting Stars competition, though former Warrior Corey Maggette will be coming out of retirement for the event. They won\u2019t be included in Saturday\u2019s concluding event, the AT&T Slam Dunk contest, though the mostly no-name field is highlighted, in my eyes at least, by Jace Richardson, the son of a Warriors legend.<\/p>\n
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