SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 10: Golden State Warriors’ Andre Iguodala (9) sits on the bench throughout their sport towards the New York Knicks within the third quarter on the Chase Heart in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Space Information Group)
LOS ANGELES — The Warriors will play their closing two video games earlier than the All-Star break with out Andre Iguodala, the identical as they've for all however six minutes of their earlier 12.
With Iguodala nursing a good decrease again, coach Steve Kerr relented that it wouldn’t be till subsequent Thursday, on the earliest, that Golden State will get its veteran chief again on the ground. It will be extra clever, he stated, to make sure Iguodala, 38, returns at full power than to hurry him again. He traveled with the crew to Los Angeles and took part in shootaround however is not going to go well with up Monday evening towards the Clippers.
“He’s doing properly,” Kerr stated. “We’ll maintain him out by way of the break, simply to be very cautious. He’s doing rather a lot higher.”
Golden State’s sport Monday evening was Iguodala’s thirteenth straight absence, excluding the primary half of 1 sport at Oklahoma Metropolis, when Iguodala briefly returned from from a sore hip to injure his again, which has stored him out since. The Warriors have performed extra video games with out him within the lineup (32) than with him (26).
The evening Iguodala returned towards the Thunder — pulling down an open 3-pointer, facilitating two extra baskets, grabbing two rebounds and forcing a steal in six minutes — Kerr stated he was “actually hopeful this was going to be the beginning of a great stretch for him.”
The Warriors are as an alternative left ready till after the All-Star break earlier than both Iguodala or Draymond Inexperienced is ready to return.
After their first-half finale Wednesday towards Denver, the Warriors don’t play for one more eight days, till the next Thursday in Portland, after they kick off the house stretch of the common season.