{"id":418153,"date":"2026-01-20T06:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418153\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T06:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:13:07","slug":"jimmy-butler-injury-update-warriors-forward-leaves-game-vs-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418153\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Butler injury update: Warriors forward leaves game vs. Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/golden-state-warriors\/9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Golden State Warriors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Golden State Warriors<\/a> forward Jimmy Butler left Monday night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/summary\/2914554\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:135-112;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">135-112<\/a> victory against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/miami-heat\/14\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Heat;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miami Heat<\/a> at Chase Center with an apparent right knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/golden-state-warriors\/9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Warriors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Warriors<\/a> were leading 77-75 with 7:41 remaining in the third quarter at the time of the injury stoppage.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Butler jumped to receive a lob pass from guard Brandin Podziemski, which was met contact from Heat guard Davion Mitchell as Butler was landing and going up for a layup.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed as if Butler&#8217;s knee buckled as he immediately fell to the ground before being tended to by the Warriors&#8217; medical staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Golden State Warriors forward Jimmy Butler left Monday night&#8217;s 135-112 victory against the Miami Heat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[19039,60836,2243,17721,52575,8173,355,99],"class_list":["post-418153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-brandin-podziemski","tag-davion-mitchell","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-knee-injury","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418153","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=418153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}