{"id":484402,"date":"2026-02-19T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=484402"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:41:07","slug":"warriors-without-stephen-curry-vs-celtics-as-absence-remains-unclear-porzingis-expected-to-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/warriors-without-stephen-curry-vs-celtics-as-absence-remains-unclear-porzingis-expected-to-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors without Stephen Curry vs Celtics as absence remains unclear; Porzingis expected to debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1852\" data-end=\"2121\">The <strong data-start=\"1856\" data-end=\"1868\">Warriors<\/strong> will be without <strong data-start=\"1885\" data-end=\"1902\">Stephen Curry<\/strong> on Thursday night versus the <strong data-start=\"1932\" data-end=\"1943\">Celtics<\/strong>, and there\u2019s no clear timetable for his return. Curry told the training staff his right knee didn\u2019t feel ready for a live scrimmage when he returned to the facility Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2123\" data-end=\"2424\">\u201c<strong data-start=\"2124\" data-end=\"2162\">Just wasn\u2019t where he needed to be,<\/strong>\u201d Steve Kerr said, adding the team will have an update after Curry\u2019s work with the staff. Kerr also noted another MRI could be on the table after consultation with Rick Celebrini, who is in Milan watching his son Macklin play for Team Canada in Olympic hockey.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2426\" data-end=\"2803\">On the brighter side, <strong data-start=\"2448\" data-end=\"2470\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/strong> is expected to make his <strong data-start=\"2495\" data-end=\"2507\">Warriors<\/strong> debut against Boston, with an early plan for short stints and limited minutes. Acquired from Atlanta at the deadline in the deal that sent Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield to the Hawks, Porzingis said it will be \u201c<strong data-start=\"2721\" data-end=\"2730\">weird<\/strong>\u201d to face his former team and praised the fit alongside Draymond Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden State will open the post\u2013All-Star stretch Thursday night against the Boston Celtics without Stephen Curry, still dealing with \u201crunner\u2019s knee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-484402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Golden-State-Warriors.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484402"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=484402"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=484402"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=484402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}