{"id":606589,"date":"2026-04-14T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606589\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:30:12","slug":"curry-to-be-on-minutes-restriction-in-warriors-must-win-play-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606589\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry to be on minutes restriction in Warriors’ must-win play-in"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Curry<\/a> is one of three Golden State Warriors<\/a> who will be on a minutes restriction in the team’s play-in game against the Clippers in Los Angeles on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Warriors coach Steve Kerr said Sunday that Curry, Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> and Al Horford<\/a> will all play fewer than 40 minutes in the must-win game.<\/p>\n

Stephen Curry will be on a minutes restriction when the Golden State Warriors take on Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers.\u00a0Sean M. Haffey\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The game is a rematch of Sunday’s regular-season finale won by the Clippers 115-110. If the Warriors lose, a season the team likely would like to forget ends. Golden State clinched the last of four play-in berths at 37-45.<\/p>\n

Curry has been battling knee injuries most of the season and Jimmy Butler tore his ACL in early January. Horford has been dealing with a calf injury while Draymond Green<\/a> and Porzingis have both been nursing sore backs.<\/p>\n

The Warriors have attempted to manage the minutes of their aging superstars all season, and the play-in game is no different. Kerr has been vocal about the league needing to adopt a shorter regular-season schedule to prevent such injuries.<\/p>\n

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“I know this will not be a popular opinion in the league office, but I will continue to say it because it’s obvious we need to play fewer games — we need to take 10 games off the schedule,” he said in March. “I think it would be a more competitive and healthier league if we played fewer games.”<\/p>\n

For the Clippers, Kawhi Leonard<\/a> rested for the final games of the season in preparation for the play-in. Leonard averaged a career-high 27.9 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists during a mostly healthy season in which he played his second-most games as a Clipper. He played 68 games two seasons ago after being limited to 37 in 2024-25 because of injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Curry is one of three Golden State Warriors who will be on a minutes restriction in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-606589","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\/606589","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=606589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}