{"id":498198,"date":"2026-02-23T05:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498198\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T05:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:19:14","slug":"warriors-rule-out-kristaps-porzingis-draymond-green-vs-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498198\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors rule out Kristaps Porzingis, Draymond Green vs. Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors<\/a> center Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> and forward Draymond Green<\/a> were late scratches for Sunday’s 128-117 win over the Denver Nuggets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Porzingis did not play because of what the team termed a general illness, while Green was out with lower back soreness.<\/p>\n

“He’s not even going to come over [to the arena],” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said of Porzingis. “He’s pretty sick.”<\/p>\n

It would have been Porzingis’ second game with his newest team. The Warriors acquired him from Atlanta<\/a> via trade at the early February deadline. He made his debut for Golden State<\/a> in a loss<\/a> to the Boston Celtics<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

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Porzingis scored 12 points in 17 minutes in that game and said afterward that he felt ready for a heavier workload. He practiced Friday and Saturday, with Kerr saying the plan is to bump up his minutes.<\/p>\n

He has been limited to 18 games this season, battling Achilles tendinitis and the lingering impact of a postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome diagnosis, a disorder of the autonomic nervous system.<\/p>\n

The Warriors travel to Memphis<\/a> and New Orleans<\/a> for games Tuesday and Wednesday. Kerr said Porzingis’ availability for either game remains unclear.<\/p>\n

Green was replaced in Sunday’s starting lineup by Al Horford<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors center Kristaps Porzingis and forward Draymond Green were late scratches for Sunday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-498198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498198","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=498198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}