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DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Stephen Curry<\/a> will be available for the play-in tournament if his ailing right knee allows.<\/p>\n

Golden State coach Steve Kerr dismissed the notion that the Warriors<\/a> would sit their superstar without a guaranteed spot in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Kerr said before Golden State’s 137-131 overtime victory at Dallas on Monday night that Curry’s planned participation in practice a day earlier was put off by the medical staff. A six-game road trip ends against the Mavericks<\/a>, and the Warriors will decide what’s next for Curry after they get home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all just part of the rehab and all the different testing he does,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cJust pushed back a day or two.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Warriors are in 10th place in the Western Conference, and if they finish the season in that final spot in the play-in tournament, they would have to win two road games to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Curry hasn’t played since Jan. 30 as he deals with patella-femoral pain syndrome and bone bruising in the knee. Golden State is 23-16 with Curry and 11-22 without him this season. <\/p>\n

The win over the Mavericks was just the second in the past 10 games for the Warriors, who are 7-15 since Curry’s latest injury. Golden State guard Moses Moody<\/a> exited late in OT with an apparently serious left knee injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not chasing a play-in berth. We are squarely in the play-in no matter what we do,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cBottom line, if Steph is healthy, he\u2019s going to play because that\u2019s what we\u2019re here for. The chance to get into the playoffs is a big deal for us, big deal for Steph.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, Kerr said if there’s any risk of longer-term damage to the knee, Curry won’t play. The 38-year-old leads the Warriors in scoring at 27.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Kerr deflected the question of whether Curry was disappointed that his return to practice was put off at least two more days.<\/p>\n

Golden State had initially hoped he would return right after the All-Star break, and Curry sat out the All-Star Game this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a long haul,\u201d the coach said. \u201cHe\u2019s dying to get out there, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

This story was corrected to show the Warriors are 23-16 when Stephen Curry plays, not 23-17.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Stephen Curry will be available for the play-in tournament if his ailing right knee allows.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,479,164,4025,4024,1104,1407,6,573,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-676014","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-golden-state","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-goldenstate","12":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","13":"tag-moses-moody","14":"tag-national-basketball-association","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-stephen-curry","17":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116282964595838218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676014","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=676014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}