{"id":560656,"date":"2026-03-24T07:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560656\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:43:08","slug":"kerr-warriors-will-play-curry-in-play-in-tourney-if-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560656\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerr: Warriors will play Curry in play-in tourney if healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS — Stephen Curry<\/a> will be available for the play-in tournament if his ailing right knee allows.<\/p>\n

Golden State coach Steve Kerr dismissed the notion that the Warriors<\/a> would sit their superstar without a guaranteed spot in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Kerr said before Golden State’s 137-131 overtime victory<\/a> at Dallas<\/a> on Monday night that Curry’s planned participation in practice a day earlier was put off by the medical staff. A six-game road trip ends against the Mavericks, and the Warriors will decide what’s next for Curry after they get home.<\/p>\n

“It’s all just part of the rehab and all the different testing he does,” Kerr said. “Just pushed back a day or two.”<\/p>\n

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The Warriors are in 10th place in the Western Conference, and if they finish the season in that final spot in the play-in tournament, they would have to win two road games to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Curry hasn’t played since Jan. 30 as he deals with patella-femoral pain syndrome and bone bruising in the knee. Golden State is 23-16 with Curry and 11-22 without him this season.<\/p>\n

The win over the Mavericks was just the second in the past 10 games for the Warriors, who are 7-15 since Curry’s latest injury. Golden State guard Moses Moody<\/a> exited late in OT with an apparently serious left knee injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We’re not chasing a play-in berth. We are squarely in the play-in no matter what we do,” Kerr said. “Bottom line, if Steph is healthy, he’s going to play because that’s what we’re here for. The chance to get into the playoffs is a big deal for us, big deal for Steph.”<\/p>\n

At the same time, Kerr said if there’s any risk of longer-term damage to the knee, Curry won’t play. The 38-year-old leads the Warriors in scoring at 27.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Kerr deflected the question of whether Curry was disappointed that his return to practice was put off at least two more days.<\/p>\n

Golden State had initially hoped he would return right after the All-Star break, and Curry sat out the All-Star Game this year.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a long haul,” the coach said. “He’s dying to get out there, for sure.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS — Stephen Curry will be available for the play-in tournament if his ailing right knee allows. Golden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-560656","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\/560656","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=560656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560656\/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=560656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}