SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One evening after an thrilling comeback win in opposition to the Utah Jazz, the Warriors are resting the majority of their stars for Sunday’s street recreation in opposition to the Kings.
As anticipated, Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala and Otto Porter Jr. have been listed as out on the crew’s harm report Saturday afternoon for harm administration. Draymond Inexperienced will play his first back-to-back set since coming back from a disc harm in his again.
Inexperienced has regarded extra like himself within the Warriors’ final two video games after criticizing his personal play final week.
Golden State has been additional cautious with its veterans coming back from harm this season.
Thompson has but to play in each video games of a back-to-back this season since coming again in January from his ACL and Achilles tears. And Porter, who has battled numerous accidents all through his nine-year NBA profession, has performed in just one full back-to-back this season, courting again to Jan. 13 and 14.
Iguodala returned final week from a again harm that sidelined him for 21 video games, and coach Steve Kerr on Saturday stated the plan was to sit down the 38-year-old for the backend of the Warriors’ second-to-last back-to-back.
“He got here out wonderful from the opposite evening,” Kerr stated earlier than the Warriors’ 111-107 win over the Jazz. “We’re simply going to proceed to be very cautious with the concept that we’d prefer to have him all through the playoff run. And so we’ve acquired to we’ve acquired to essentially assume huge image and never overdoing it with him.”
In three video games since his return, Iguodala, the second oldest participant within the NBA, has averaged three factors, three rebounds and a couple of.3 assists in 15.5 minutes.
The Warriors enter Sunday because the No. 3 seed of the Western Convention with a one-game benefit on the fourth-place Dallas Mavericks and a snug three-game lead on the Jazz and Denver Nuggets, who're tied for fifth.
Golden State has 4 video games remaining, together with Sunday’s tilt — all of which the crew will play with out Stephen Curry, who was dominated out final week for the rest of the common season as he nurses a sprained ligament in his left foot. He’ll be re-evaluated earlier than the playoffs, which start April 16.
The Warriors may even be with out James Wiseman, who hasn’t performed in an NBA recreation since final April. The second total decide of the 2020 draft was lately shut down for the season after swelling persevered in his surgically repaired knee.