{"id":574101,"date":"2026-04-01T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/574101\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T01:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:21:09","slug":"report-warriors-steph-curry-eyeing-return-sunday-vs-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/574101\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Warriors&#8217; Steph Curry eyeing return Sunday vs. Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/golden-state-warriors\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"golden-state-warriors\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> try to climb up the Western Conference standings, their star player appears to be nearing a return. <\/p>\n<p>Curry has been out since suffering a right knee injury on Jan. 30 in a game against the Detroit Pistons. <\/p>\n<p>However, the 38-year-old participated in a full practice on Tuesday and partook in five-on-five scrimmaging, but according to head coach Steve Kerr, it was a light session for Curry and the team. <\/p>\n<p>Should Curry return for Sunday&#8217;s game against Houston, he would be in line \u2014 on paper \u2014 to be available for the Warriors&#8217; five final regular-season games. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a good step for him. He won\u2019t play tomorrow,\u201d Kerr said Tuesday. \u201cIt\u2019s just a progression from here, so if he\u2019s feeling well, we\u2019ll scrimmage again and we\u2019ll just go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kerr said Tuesday&#8217;s session was all drill work, both offensively and defensively, \u201chalf-speed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a 116-93 loss at Denver on Sunday night, the Warriors dropped to 13-23 this season without Curry \u2014 including 9-16 during this stretch with him sidelined by patellofemoral pain syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also dealt with a season-ending injury to forward Jimmy Butler, he underwent surgery on a torn ACL in February. They&#8217;re 13-24 without Butler this season and are 11-20 since his surgery. <\/p>\n<p>Curry&#8217;s presence provides an immediate lift. He leads the Warriors in scoring with 27.2 points while adding 3.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists in 39 games this season. He&#8217;s shooting 46.8 per cent from the field and 39.1 per cent from deep. <\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, the Warriors sit 10th in the West at 36-39 but are in no danger of dropping out of the play-in picture, as the 11th-place Memphis Grizzlies are mathematically eliminated at 25-50. <\/p>\n<p>However, Golden State is only three games behind the Los Angeles Clippers for the eight seed and a more favourable spot in the Play-In Tournament. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; With files from the Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Golden State Warriors try to climb up the Western Conference standings, their star player appears to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-574101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}