Warriors fans haven’t received their usual dose of Steph Curry magic at Chase Center this season, and that trend continued Thursday when Golden State’s star guard was ruled out of the regular-season home finale against the Los Angeles Lakers due to knee injury management.But when a reporter at Steve Kerr’s Thursday pregame press conference asked the Warriors coach if the team had given any thought to letting Curry play in front of his home fans one more time—and resting him Friday in Sacramento instead—Kerr insisted there was nothing to be done.“It was a hundred percent health related,” Kerr said. “If we were making decisions on [those] criteria, we would have played him tonight. But this was 100 percent about his health and recovery from the two games that he’s played and the preparation for next week. This made the most sense.”The Warriors are locked into the No. 10 seed in the Western Conference and, mathematically, have nothing left to play for until the NBA play-in tournament begins. Still, fans were surely looking forward to the latest chapter in the Curry-LeBron James saga, one that now will likely have...
Steve Kerr explains why Warriors are resting Steph Curry vs. Lakers, not Kings
Published April 9, 2026 • 17 hrs ago
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