{"id":342302,"date":"2025-12-11T03:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342302\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T03:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:50:07","slug":"warriors-curry-thigh-expected-to-return-friday-vs-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342302\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors&#8217; Curry (thigh) expected to return Friday vs. Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> are expecting<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3975\/stephen-curry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stephen Curry<\/a> to return from his thigh contusion Friday night against the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-timberwolves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It&#8217;s looking good,&#8221; Warriors coach Steve Kerr said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Curry skipped the Warriors&#8217; recent three-game road trip, opting to remain back in San Francisco for rest and treatment with an aim to get full clearance for Wednesday night&#8217;s practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After he was cleared, Curry was a full participant in all contact portions of the workout and took part in a six-minute scrimmage without issue. Kerr said he expects Curry to practice Thursday before receiving the green light for a Friday return from his five-game absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Warriors went 2-3 with Curry on the sideline and return home at 13-12 overall with a small bump of momentum. Those two wins came in their last two games on the road, in Cleveland and Chicago this past weekend. They&#8217;ve held four of their previous five opponents below 100 points and have the third-best defensive rating in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Forward <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6589\/draymond-green\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Draymond Green<\/a> has missed the previous two games with a foot sprain and wasn&#8217;t at practice Wednesday night because of an excused personal absence. Kerr said he expects Green back Thursday, however, and he could play Friday against the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Veteran center <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3213\/al-horford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Al Horford<\/a> is not expected to play while dealing with sciatica.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; The Golden State Warriors are expectingStephen Curry to return from his thigh contusion Friday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[171626,68814,352,2243,355,3,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-342302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-171626","9":"tag-curry-stephen","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}