{"id":691188,"date":"2026-04-01T04:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691188\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:20:29","slug":"warriors-star-practices-may-play-soon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691188\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors star practices, may play soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Steph Curry appears to be nearing a return<\/a> to the court after missing over two months with runner\u2019s knee<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Following practice at Chase Center on Tuesday, Warriors coach Steve Kerr said that Curry practiced with the team and would participate in a scrimmage later in the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to see how he responds to the scrimmage,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a progression from here, so if he\u2019s feeling well, we\u2019ll scrimmage again and we\u2019ll just go from here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kerr said later in a Tuesday afternoon interview on radio station 95.7 The Game that Curry \u201clooked good\u201d in the scrimmage, stressing that the team was taking the situation \u201cday by day\u201d given that his recovery from workouts has been part of the issue.<\/p>\n

Curry has missed the past 25 games, last appearing Jan. 30 against Detroit.<\/p>\n

The Warriors expected he would return to drills after the All-Star break in early February, but Curry reported more swelling in his knee, further delaying his rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

Curry did pregame shooting drills<\/a> on March 18 in Boston and was expected to scrimmage over the next few days at that point. However, he did not take that next step until Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Warriors play their next five games at home. Kerr added that Curry will not play against the Spurs on Wednesday, and is highly doubtful for Thursday\u2019s game against the Cavaliers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Warriors\u2019 next game after that is against the Rockets on Sunday. Kerr has repeatedly reiterated that the Warriors will need to give Curry several games to \u201cramp up\u201d his minutes ahead of an inevitable play-in tournament game in two weeks.<\/p>\n

For a team that has slid down the standings in Curry\u2019s absence, his return to practice provided an energy boost.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe gym was bouncier, and everyone\u2019s spirits are lifted when he\u2019s playing,\u201d Kerr said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gui Santos did not participate in the scrimmage, but he was around for practice, and agreed with Kerr\u2019s assessment. Curry has averaged 27.2 points per game in 39 starts this season, and his presence will help open up the court for Santos and the rest of the younger players.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing, just to have him out there with us is always great,\u201d Santos said. \u201cWe have a lot more confidence when we have a guy like Steph on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Warriors (36-39) need Curry to be on the floor to have a chance of advancing past the play-in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Golden State is 1.5 games behind the Portland Trail Blazers, who own the tiebreaker over the Warriors. The Clippers, who host the Warriors in the regular-season finale, are three games ahead of them.<\/p>\n

Horford wants to play<\/p>\n

Curry is not the only veteran the Warriors are hoping to see return to the rotation soon. Al Horford has missed the past nine games with a calf injury, leaving the Warriors\u2019 frontcourt even thinner now that Quinten Post has also been ruled out for Wednesday\u2019s game with a right foot injury.<\/p>\n

Horford, 39, emphasized that he still hopes to come back before the end of the regular season. He still has to clear a number of hurdles before that happens, though.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still not practicing with the team, just doing individual stuff. But I feel pretty well,\u201d Horford said. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m progressing, and I\u2019m encouraged by that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite only playing in only 43 games this season, Horford was announced as one of just six candidates for the NBA\u2019s annual Sportsmanship Award on Tuesday morning. Former Warrior Harrison Barnes, now with San Antonio, is also a candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Steph Curry appears to be nearing a return to the court after missing over two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,160,164,307,152,3954,6,66,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-691188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-minnesota","12":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","13":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116327536063426260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691188","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=691188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}