Stephen Curry and Draymond Green won’t be available Sunday when the Warriors face the Clippers, with both stars landing on the NBA’s latest injury report.
Curry is listed out with a right knee injury, while Green is sidelined by a bilateral low back injury. Moses Moody and Jimmy Butler are also out for the game.
The absences come after Golden State picked up a much-needed jolt in its early-season run. The Warriors opened 0-3, then turned things around with wins over the Denver Nuggets, Timberwolves, and the Los Angeles Lakers to move to 3-3.
Friday’s 112-95 win over the Lakers was anything but straightforward. Golden State got punched early, falling 38-15 in the first quarter and then 40-15 at the start of the second as Luka Doncic powered Los Angeles with 21 points and five 3-pointers. But the Warriors settled in, scored 38 points of their own while holding the Lakers to 15, and controlled the rest of the night on the way to the final margin.
Curry led the way with 31 points, four rebounds, six assists, one steal and one block, while hitting eight 3-pointers. Green didn’t do much scoring, but he still filled the stat sheet with nine assists, four rebounds, three steals and one block.
After the game, Curry pointed to the defensive response after the Lakers’ fast start.
“To hold them under 95 after a 38-point first quarter is pretty impressive from everybody…It's great in-game adjustments. It's great effort.
Um relentless, you know, rotations out there. It was that's from top to bottom.
Everybody has to be a part of that. And defensively, you give yourself a chance in a lot of games if you can do that.”
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