{"id":423210,"date":"2026-01-19T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/423210\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:28:10","slug":"warriors-notes-hield-butler-richard-kerr-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/423210\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Notes: Hield, Butler, Richard, Kerr, More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran guard\/forward Buddy Hield<\/a> capitalized in his unexpected return to the Warriors\u2018 rotation during Saturday\u2019s win vs. Charlotte, writes Dalton Johnson of NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a>. Hield, one of the most prolific three-point shooters in NBA history, has struggled from long distance in a limited role this season, converting just 32.7% of his outside attempts.<\/p>\n

Hield got an opportunity to play Saturday because Jimmy Butler<\/a> was a (very) late scratch because of personal reasons. The 33-year-old finished with 14 points (on 5-of-8 shooting), three rebounds, three blocks and two steals in 18 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great. He\u2019s one of the best teammates I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d head coach Steve Kerr said. \u201cJust the way he conducts himself. His energy, his joy \u2014 whether he\u2019s playing or not \u2014 it\u2019s just the light that he brings to the locker room every day is infectious and powerful. He\u2019s just an incredible guy to coach. I was happy for him that he had that night given that he\u2019s been out of the loop for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more on the Warriors:<\/p>\n

Butler was announced as a starter during pregame player introductions, so the crowd at Chase Center was confused when rookie Will Richard<\/a> \u2014 not Butler \u2014 was part of the starting lineup, Johnson notes. General manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. told Kerr that everything was OK with Butler, according to Johnson (Twitter link<\/a>).
\nMonte Poole of NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a> shares his takeaways from Saturday\u2019s victory, which featured solid performances from Richard (11 points, six rebounds, five assists, three steals), De\u2019Anthony Melton<\/a> (24 points, six rebounds, three assists) and Brandin Podziemski<\/a> (16 points, seven assists, six rebounds, two steals), among others.
\nKerr said prior to Saturday\u2019s game that he doesn\u2019t think another team will be able to break Golden State\u2019s regular season record of 73 wins, which came back in \u201915\/16, as Nick Friedell of The Athletic<\/a> relays. \u201cI remember at the time I thought, \u2018No way,\u2019\u201d Kerr said. \u201cAnd then, about a month ago, I thought it would be broken. And now, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any way anybody\u2019s gonna break it again. It\u2019s such a difficult thing, but Oklahoma City looked like they were on their way to doing it. But the reason it\u2019s so hard is just you have to have good health \u2014 you have to have some luck. And most teams probably aren\u2019t going to push themselves that hard to get there. It\u2019s so difficult. My guess is it won\u2019t be broken.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran guard\/forward Buddy Hield capitalized in his unexpected return to the Warriors\u2018 rotation during Saturday\u2019s win vs. Charlotte,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,7899,42292,32201,7902,85,5164],"class_list":["post-423210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-brandin-podziemski","tag-buddy-hield","tag-deanthony-melton","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-sports","tag-will-richard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423210","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=423210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}