{"id":341038,"date":"2025-12-11T05:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341038\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:46:08","slug":"warriors-curry-thigh-expected-to-return-friday-vs-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341038\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors&#8217; Curry (thigh) expected to return Friday vs. Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77a8546f-24bf-a333-8161-bf9f75396c49\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> are expecting <a data-player-guid=\"5dda51f1-50c9-66e1-2026-400b73f34fad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3975\/stephen-curry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Curry<\/a> to return from his thigh contusion Friday night against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"13f727cb-254d-b484-a337-93fcc0047add\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-timberwolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s looking good,&#8221; Warriors coach Steve Kerr said.<\/p>\n<p>Curry skipped the Warriors&#8217; recent three-game road trip, opting to remain in San Francisco for rest and treatment with an aim to get full clearance for Wednesday night&#8217;s practice.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47256507\/nba-power-rankings-team-biggest-weakness\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nba_power_rankings_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47243592\/jonathan-kuminga-gets-dnp-shorthanded-warriors-win-again\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/r1586603_683x683_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>After he was cleared, Curry was a full participant in all contact portions of the workout and took part in a six-minute scrimmage without issue. Kerr said he expects Curry to practice Thursday before receiving the green light for a Friday return from his five-game absence.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors went 2-3 with Curry on the sideline and return home at 13-12 overall with a small bump of momentum. Those two wins came in their past two games on the road, in Cleveland and Chicago this past weekend. They&#8217;ve held four of their previous five opponents below 100 points and have the third-best defensive rating in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Forward <a data-player-guid=\"de360720-e416-25f2-8a6b-b5ff82616cb1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6589\/draymond-green\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Draymond Green<\/a> sat out the previous two games because of a foot sprain and wasn&#8217;t at practice Wednesday night because of an excused personal absence. Kerr said he expects Green back Thursday, however, and he could play Friday against the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran center <a data-player-guid=\"b79dd16a-5d4b-d704-9b0c-eaa9ec3df217\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3213\/al-horford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Al Horford<\/a> is not expected to play while dealing with sciatica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; The Golden State Warriors are expecting Stephen Curry to return from his thigh contusion Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-341038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}