{"id":700558,"date":"2026-04-06T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700558\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:00:27","slug":"after-missing-more-than-two-months-with-right-knee-injury-stephen-curry-returning-for-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700558\/","title":{"rendered":"After missing more than two months with right knee injury, Stephen Curry returning for Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Stephen Curry<\/a> was set to play about 25 minutes against Houston on Sunday night in his return from a two-plus-month absence because of a right knee injury.<\/p>\n

Coach Steve Kerr said before the game that it’s still unclear how many of the remaining games Curry will play given Golden State has five contests in eight days with a back-to-back the rest of the way \u2014 and the expectation is he wouldn’t play on consecutive nights.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re going to manage it accordingly. The plan for tonight would be shorter bursts and we’ll see on the minutes,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cBut first game back he’s not playing 48 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The schedule will be determined by how Curry feels and input from Vice President of Player Health and Performance Rick Celebrini.<\/p>\n

Curry scrimmaged several times this past week to test his injured right knee, and he said Saturday it was never a consideration to shut it down for the rest of the season. Kerr hoped to have Curry and younger brother Seth finally play together. <\/p>\n

Kerr had said Saturday that Curry was expected to play for the first time since Jan. 30 against Detroit, though the Warriors<\/a> listed him as questionable. <\/p>\n

“He\u2019s scheduled to play,” Kerr said pregame Sunday.<\/p>\n

After Saturday’s practice, Curry said dealing with the pain is part of his \u201cnew normal\u201d and the offseason will require a significant reset.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old Curry initially expected to be playing right after the All-Star break, but the recovery was prolonged by some difficult moments when he would feel good, push hard then pay for it the following day.<\/p>\n

Curry leads the Warriors in scoring with 27.2 points per game and it has been frustrating.<\/p>\n

The Warriors (36-41) had lost three straight games overall and were 13-25 this season without Curry \u2014 including 9-18 during this stretch with him sidelined by patellofemoral pain syndrome. <\/p>\n

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AP NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Stephen Curry was set to play about 25 minutes against Houston on Sunday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,164,1407,6,573],"class_list":{"0":"post-700558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-golden-state-warriors","10":"tag-national-basketball-association","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-stephen-curry"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116355060466604426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700558","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=700558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700558\/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=700558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}