{"id":704910,"date":"2026-04-08T08:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704910\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:58:38","slug":"steve-kerr-gives-kristaps-porzingis-injury-update-after-missing-kings-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704910\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Kerr gives Kristaps Porzingis injury update after missing Kings game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/warriors-news-stephen-curry-kristaps-porzingis-playing-kings-injury-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors narrowly escaped<\/a> with a win over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night, taking a 110-105 victory at home against a ragtag and tanking Kings squad. Golden State has nothing to play for anymore in terms of seeding, as they are locked into the 10th spot considering that they&#8217;re three games behind the Portland Trail Blazers in the win-loss column with three games to go in the regular season (Portland won the season series, 3-1).<\/p>\n<p>The main thing the Warriors will be prioritizing to end the regular season is health; Stephen Curry only recently returned from a 27-game absence due to persistent knee troubles, while <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/players\/bae20a61\/kristaps-porzingis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> had to miss their Tuesday night contest <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BySamGordon\/status\/2041740437933674806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">due to knee troubles<\/a> of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, it doesn&#8217;t seem as though the injury that kept Porzingis out of action on Tuesday is anything to worry about long-term. As per Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, via Sam Gordon of the San Francisco Chronicle, he doesn&#8217;t believe as though Porzingis&#8217; knee injury is anything \u201cserious\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors&#8217; chances of making it to the playoffs via the play-in tournament were already slim to begin with. They will need to win two games on the road just to earn the eighth-seed. But if <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/warriors-news-dubs-back-mix-stephen-curry-29-point-return\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Curry and Porzingis were to be fully healthy<\/a>, anything can certainly happen in a do-or-die setting.<\/p>\n<p>The end is almost here for the Stephen Curry-led Warriors<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3759086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Stephen-Curry-on-April-5-2026.jpg\" alt=\"Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) checks into the game against the Houston Rockets in the first quarter at the Chase Center.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/>Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors had a slim chance of competing for the Larry O&#8217;Brien trophy prior to the start of the 2025-26 season. They looked like a serious contending team last year when they brought Jimmy Butler in, but Butler proceeded to tear his ACL earlier in the season, slamming the team&#8217;s contending window shut.<\/p>\n<p>The move for Porzingis was a Hail Mary heave, but one thing&#8217;s for sure: the end is near for the Curry-led Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden State Warriors narrowly escaped with a win over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night, taking a 110-105 victory at home against a ragtag and tanking Kings squad.  Golden State has nothing to play for anymore in terms of seeding, as they are locked into the 10th spot considering that they&#8217;re three games behind the Portland Trail Blazers in the win-loss column with three games to go in the regular season (Portland won the season series, 3-1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Warriors narrowly escaped with a win over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night, taking a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,479,164,4025,4024,871,6,14502,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-704910","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-kristaps-porzingis","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-injury","16":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116368265930066113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704910","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=704910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}