{"id":574686,"date":"2026-04-09T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574686\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:58:08","slug":"injury-update-stephen-curry-ruled-out-vs-lakers-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574686\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Update: Stephen Curry ruled out vs. Lakers on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After missing 27 consecutive games with a lingering knee injury, Stephen Curry made his highly-anticpated return to the court on Sunday night against the Houston Rockets. After playing two games in a row, Curry will return to the sideline on Thursday night when the Los Angeles Lakers are in town for the regular-season home finale at Chase Center in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors have ruled Curry out on Thursday night due to right knee injury management. The Warriors will also be without Kristaps Porzingis (right knee soreness), Quinten Post (right foot), Will Richard (lower back strain) and Al Horford (right soleus strain) on Thursday against the Lakers. Gui Santon (right pelvic strain) is listed as questionable.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In his two games since returning from injury, Curry is averaging 23 points on 48.5% shooting from the field to go along with 3.5 boards and three assists in two games against the Rockets and Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p>With Curry out, the Warriors backcourt will be manned by Brandin Podziemski, De&#8217;Anthony Melton, Pat Spencer, Seth Curry and Gary Payton II.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors will meet the Lakers for the final time in the regular season on Thursday night at 7 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p>This post originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/warriorswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Warriors Wire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Warriors Wire&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Warriors Wire<\/a>! Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/WarriorsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Facebook&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Facebook <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWarriorsWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Twitter&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Warriors Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/warriorswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/warriors\/2026\/04\/09\/injury-update-stephen-curry-ruled-out-vs-lakers-on-thursday\/89540640007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Injury Update: Stephen Curry ruled out vs. Lakers on Thursday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Injury Update&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Injury Update: Stephen Curry ruled out vs. Lakers on Thursday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After missing 27 consecutive games with a lingering knee injury, Stephen Curry made his highly-anticpated return to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2241,19039,252778,5050,52575,6345,1055,355,115558,9250,6404,25160,99,2244,48486,50306,5796],"class_list":{"0":"post-574686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-al-horford","9":"tag-brandin-podziemski","10":"tag-consecutive-games","11":"tag-houston-rockets","12":"tag-knee-injury","13":"tag-kristaps-porzingis","14":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-pat-spencer","17":"tag-quinten-post","18":"tag-sacramento-kings","19":"tag-seth-curry","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-stephen-curry","22":"tag-the-warriors","23":"tag-thursday-night","24":"tag-will-richard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574686","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=574686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}