SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Golden State Warriors are without Draymond Green and Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is for Sunday\u2019s game against the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n
Porzi\u0146\u0123is was declared out with an illness earlier Sunday. Green was scratched just before the opening tip with a lower back issue.<\/p>\n
Warriors coach Steve Kerr said it\u2019s unclear whether Porzi\u0146\u0123is will travel during the team\u2019s two-game trip to New Orleans and Memphis this week. Kerr also said he was unsure of what kind of illness Porzi\u0146\u0123is had. In the short term, Quinten Post is expected to take Porzi\u0146\u0123is\u2019 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t talked to him,\u201d Kerr said of Porzi\u0146\u0123is before the game. \u201cI got a text this morning that he was sick and at the hotel. He\u2019s not even gonna come over here. He\u2019s pretty sick.\u201d<\/p>\n
Porzi\u0146\u0123is, 30, was acquired just before the NBA trade deadline earlier this month from the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield. He made his Warriors debut Thursday night against the Boston Celtics, and Kerr had been confident heading into the game that Porzi\u0146\u0123is, who played 17 minutes against the Celtics, would be available to play a few more minutes against the Nuggets.<\/p>\n
Porzi\u0146\u0123is has dealt with a variety of health issues over the last two years, appearing in only 60 games. Kerr has said repeatedly that the Warriors wouldn\u2019t have decided to trade for Porzi\u0146\u0123is unless they thought he could stay healthy.<\/p>\n
Al Horford is expected to start in place of Green. Kerr addressed the Green\u2019s struggles on the court during his pregame news conference, noting that he wants the 14-year veteran to continue to shoot from the outside when open. Green is shooting just 32 percent from beyond the arc this season. He was 0-for-7 from the field and registered a minus-28 in Thursday\u2019s loss to the Celtics.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want him taking every open 3,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cHe\u2019s very capable. (The) San Antonio game right before the break, he was amazing, both his defense on Wemby (Victor Wembanyama) and then making multiple 3s and distributing the ball. We know what Draymond\u2019s capable of. We know, too, that as you get older, it\u2019s tougher to do it every night. In his prime, you could count on him every single night. You get older, it just doesn\u2019t work that way. There\u2019s gonna be nights when shots go in, there\u2019s nights where they don\u2019t, but the thing that\u2019s consistent with Draymond is he\u2019s there for us every night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe level of defensive intensity, but also just (his) acumen is so helpful for us. And then we just have to read the game. There\u2019s been a few games lately where Al (Horford) has closed without Draymond. So, it\u2019s our job as a staff to find the best combinations and read the game. In the past, Draymond would always be out there at the end of the game, and now it might be Al. Draymond understands that, and he\u2019s handled that really well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Golden State Warriors are without Draymond Green and Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is for Sunday\u2019s game against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[117469,2243,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-484535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-fantasy-basketball","9":"tag-golden-state-warriors","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484535","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=484535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}