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Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors <\/p>\n
Knees were a major issue for the Golden State Warriors<\/a> in the 2025-26 season, especially after a promising midseason run was quickly defused by a series of patellar problems. First, star forward Jimmy Butler<\/a> tore his ACL in mid-January. Two weeks after that, it was star guard Stephen Curry<\/a> began suffered mysterious knee pain and was diagnosed with \u201crunner\u2019s knee<\/a>.\u201d Finally, rugged starting small forward Moses Moody<\/a> suffered a nasty torn patellar tendon in March that ended his season.<\/p>\n Both Butler and Moody will almost certainly be out to start the season. It\u2019s impossible to say whether both or either will recover faster than expected, but Butler\u2019s timetable would appear to get him back on the floor around Christmas, while Moody figures to be back after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n Curry, of course, returned from his injury and played four games in April before suiting up for the play-in games, the second of which the Warriors lost, eliminating them from the playoffs.<\/p>\n Stephen Curry: \u2018More Patient Approach\u2019<\/p>\n But there is concern about whether Curry will be entirely free of the knee problem next season. Runner\u2019s knee is essentially a condition caused by overuse, and once the Warriors season gets rolling, Curry will be using that knee again, which leaves open the possibility of the condition returning.<\/p>\n Curry told NBC Sports\u2019 Monte Poole<\/a> that he is dialing back his offseason workout schedule in hopes of preserving the knee.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just a more patient approach,\u201d he said. \u201cQuality over quantity, and the idea that I can still get to the level that I need to. Just being a little bit more mindful of how to balance a four-month summer, knowing that I need the rest, but I also don\u2019t want to get too far away where it\u2019s hard to get back. So, it\u2019s just more mindful and intentional with timing and spacing throughout the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n Stephen Curry Happy for Warriors\u2019 Steve Kerr Return<\/p>\n Curry did weigh in on one of the Warriors\u2019 early wins this offseason, which is the return of coach Steven Kerr, who was contemplating retirement and, in fact, appeared to already have one foot out the door before he decided to return in May.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m happy, man,\u201d Curry said. \u201cIt\u2019s just he had to make the right decision for himself. You want to make sure everybody\u2019s invested mentally, spiritually, physically, to what the grind is. And now we\u2019re just collaborating on new ideas to try to get us back to where we belong and think about it differently, maintain our culture and our core principles that got us to the level that we were.<\/p>\n \u201cBut it\u2019s a different team, different era of basketball. You got to be able to adjust and adapt, and I think Steve\u2019s up for the task.\u201d<\/p>\n Championship Still Warriors Goal<\/p>\n The Warriors\u2019 offseason has been dominated by their chase for LeBron James<\/a>, the future Hall of Famer who is willing to sign a bargain contract to close out his career. The Warriors are among the favorites\u2013whether they\u2019re the favorite is up for debate\u2013but Curry said either way the Dubs will begin the year with the championship as a goal.<\/p>\n \u201cI said at the end of the year we always talk championships because that\u2019s the standard that we have. It\u2019s still in the back of your mind as why you work hard every year to prepare yourself to play at the highest level. But I\u2019m just looking forward to training camp and getting back to work because you got to start from scratch.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tSean Deveney<\/a> is a veteran sports reporter covering the NBA, NFL and MLB for Heavy.com. He has written for Heavy since 2019 and has more than two decades of experience covering the NBA, including 17 years as the lead NBA reporter for the Sporting News. Deveney is the author of 7 nonfiction books, including “Fun City,” “Before Wrigley became Wrigley,” and “Facing Michael Jordan.” More about Sean Deveney<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors Knees were a major issue for the Golden State Warriors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-794217","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\/794217","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=794217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}